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Air Force announces name of next long-range strike bomber

By Jacqueline Klimas
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Air Force announces name of next long-range strike bomber

The Air Force announced on Monday that the new B-21 long-range strike bomber will be called the Raider.

Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the last surviving airman of the Doolittle Raiders, announced the name at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber conference at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.

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