The US military prepares for the B-21 stealth bomber! Texas base spends 2.5 billion to build special facilities

The U.S. military's next-generation B-21 "Raider" stealth bomber has not yet been stationed at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, and the base has already built special facilities for it. The U.S. Air Force held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 5 to launch a US$78 million (approximately NT$2.56 billion) Mission Planning Center project, which is expected to provide safe space and communication facilities required for future B-21 mission planning.

The military news website "Army Recognition" reported on the 8th that this building has a building area of ​​approximately 4,274 square meters and is the first facility at Daisy Base specifically designed for future B-21 operations. According to news released by the US 7th Bomb Wing on November 6, the project will become an important support base for the base’s future B-21 mission planning.

Dyes Base will become the third major operational base for the U.S. Air Force B-21 in the future. The other two are Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. This project is not a newly selected deployment location for the US military, but part of the existing base planning.

The new building will house secure workspaces and communications infrastructure for personnel to plan missions and prepare for global strike missions. Base commander, Colonel Robert Sturgill Jr., described the building as the "nerve center" of the future B-21 campus, in which modern communications networks and security facilities are an important part.

This project is also included in the modernization plan of the Daisy base over the next 10 years. The relevant plans are expected to promote more than 24 new construction and renovation projects, with a total scale of approximately US$1.6 billion, covering base facility upgrades and the operational needs of different fleets.

Developed by the American company Northrop Grumman, the B-21 is a long-range stealth bomber that can perform conventional and nuclear missions. It is designed to penetrate airspace with tight air defense systems. The U.S. Air Force plans to use the B-21 and the modernized B-52 bomber to form an important force in the bomber force in the future, but there is still a lot of detailed performance data of the B-21 that has not been made public.