The Tu-160 Blackjack has a flight endurance of 15 hours, while its service ceiling is 16,000m. The aircraft weighs around 110,000kg and its maximum take-off weight is 275,000kg. Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber (Nato reporting name of Blackjack) is a variable-sweep wing supersonic strategic missile carrier. The B-2 is currently equipped to carry up to 40,000 pounds of conventional ordnance. It can be configured, for example, to carry up to 80 500-lb class GPS-guided bombs or 36 750-lb class bombs in its smart bomb rack assembly, or up to 16 2,000-lb class weapons in its rotary launch assembly. A drone that takes off and lands on its own would allow manned aircraft to carry their own munitions, increasing the team's overall firepower. The B-21 Raider will replace the B-1B bomber (left The Tupolev Tu-160 ( Russian: Туполев Ту-160 Белый лебедь, romanized : Belyj Lebeď, lit. ' White Swan '; [1] NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. It is the largest and The RATS upgrade, meanwhile, will allow the B-2 to use the B61 Mod 12 nuclear bomb when GPS is unavailable for nuclear strike missions. The pairing of the B-2 stealth bomber and JASSM-ER cruise missile, combining stealth and range, could give the US a new edge over modern air defenses in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD), thereby minimizing the US unveils $700m, next-generation B-21 nuclear bomber. US Air Force plans to buy at least 100 B-21 Raider stealth bombers, which come with a $700 million price tag per plane. The B-21 Raider, a Each B-2 can carry up to 16 nuclear bombs (the B61-7, B61-11, and B83-1 gravity bombs), and each B-52 H can carry up to 20 air-launched cruise missiles (the AGM-86B). B-52H bombers are no longer assigned gravity bombs (Kristensen 2017c). The "Big Belly" Bomber. Dense foliage in South Vietnam made locating targets almost impossible, forcing the U.S. Air Force to use area, or "carpet," bombing. To support this tactic, the "Big Belly" program modified the bomb bays of many B-52Ds to carry more conventional bombs. Unmodified B-52Ds could carry only 27 even 500-pound or 750-pound JWlI.