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[usafphantom2]

IMAGES: Fly the new USAF stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 11/10/2023 - 15:14in Military

Photo: Matt Hartman

USAF's new B-21 “Raider” flying wing bomber made its first flight on Friday, the next step in the launch of a new fleet of nuclear-capable long-range stealth bombers built by Northrop Grumman.

The B-21 left the Northrop facility at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, at sunrise on Friday at 6:51 a.m., offering the first improvised view of the new bomber that was developed under strict security.

The aircraft went to Edwards Air Base, California, where it will continue with the flight test phase with USAF. The flight lasted about 90 minutes.

With the Cerberus callsign, the aircraft took off eastward with an F-16 companion plane after climbing about 500 feet. The landing gear was not collected, according to videos and photos that appeared on social networks.

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U.S. Air Force leaders did not disclose the first flight of the B-21, but about three dozen aviation enthusiasts and amateur photographers gathered around Plant 42 on Friday in the hope of seeing the bomber rise to the skies.

Photo: Mike Henry

The B-21, which carries the same "flying wing" format as its predecessor, the B-2, will be able to launch conventional and nuclear weapons around the world, using long-range and in-flight refueling capabilities.

The aircraft are projected to cost approximately $550 million each in 2010 dollars, or about $750 million in current inflation-adjusted dollars. However, the USAF kept other price information confidential, “which makes it difficult to validate the proposed cost,” the Congressional Research Service said in a 2021 report.

Photo: Mike Henry

The U.S. Air Force plans to buy at least 100 planes and start replacing the B-1 and B-2 bombers. The B-1 costs about US$ 60,000 per hour to operate and the B-2 costs about US$ 65,000 per hour, according to Pentagon data.

Ann Stefanek, USAF spokesperson, said: “The B-21 Raider is in flight tests. Flight tests are a critical step in the testing campaign managed by the Air Force Test Center and the 412ª Combined Test Wings B-21 Test Force."

Photo: Mike Henry

Six test aircraft are being produced now. They are being built on the same line, using the tools, processes and technicians that will build the production aircraft.

Northrop defeated a team composed of Boeing and Lockheed Martin when it won the 2015 contract to manufacture the bomber. Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, GKN Aerospace, BAE Systems and Spirit Aerosystems are among more than 400 suppliers in 40 states.

The B-21 was publicly presented in December 2022, but the expectation around its first flight had been growing for years.

In 2019, an important Air Force general suggested that the bomber could fly as early as December 2021, but the Force subsequently postponed this date to mid-2022. In early 2022, the USAF postponed even more until 2023.

The B-21 program is in the engineering and manufacturing development phase and the first aircraft will be delivered to Ellsworth Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Northrop is calling the plane a sixth-generation aircraft due to its ability to connect to other aircraft and easily integrate future weapons into its systems architecture.

The B-21 also features surface material with low observation, more durable and stealthy, which should require less maintenance and reduce operating costs and downtime.

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Fernando Valduga

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has work published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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Best Pentagon Song Tourney Round 1: Singles & OSTs

Links to listen to the songs: Spotify | Youtube Music | Youtube Playlist

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[sebin]

tagged by the lovely @ambivartence (tysm!!!)

rules: put your spotify on repeat playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up

1. morning star - suho 2. yours - blinders remix - chanyeol, leehi, changmo, blinders, raiden 3. grey suit - suho 4. reason - kai 5. heart attack - exo 6. monster - exo 7. self portrait - suho 8. no friends - chase atlantic 9. cerberus - pentagon 10. starry night - suho (again)

clearly the exo brainrot is worse than i thought...

tagging: @dejundali @lovelyahin @cyatual @dongkwan @everygildedstar @hwang-intak @yourloveagain (sorry if u have already been tagged and feel free to ignore :3)

[takorossi]

Pentagon as Pentagon Songs / Covers

(... that I associate them with, purely self-opinion)

Jinho

hmmm "Someday - Song By JINHO, HUI"?

i feel like Jinho really slayed the vocals on that one you know

if it's not "Someday" then it would probably be "Round 2 - Bonus Track" because #jinhoWWEcommentator era

"Spring Snow"!!!!!! SPRING SNOW.

spring snow.

i loved how excited he was at wanting to perform "Spring Snow" for Road to Kingdom

and also the feels

Hui

would it be basic if i said "Shine"??? not if it's the truth ...

"Shine"

because come on, we all know why it's "Shine", what are you talking about if it's not "Shine"???

maybe "Happiness" because i felt like Hui in that M/V was pretty memorable

but also his line in "Organic song" (E'dawn, Yuto, Woo Seok With Hui), both in the original when Dawn performed it by himself in Pentagon Maker and also the released track

"Basquiat"?? VOCAL KING.

Hongseok

honestly the first thing that comes to mind is "Very Good - PENTAGON Version" (originally by Block B) from RTK

the chocolate abs left an impression

and also the "it's okay as long as he doesn't dance inappropriately afterwards" - an RTK staff member

"Dr. Bebe"

the chocolate back left an impression

"Sparkling Night" because his Oppa-ness really popped off there, ESPECIALLY in this Special Live Clip, wow that video really took me to heaven and back you know, i ascended

Shinwon

if i'm going for associated images seared into my brain, i would pick "DO or NOT" because #jokershinwon era and also "Feelin' Like" even though i know he doesn't like it because POOL SHINWON??? shinwon with GLOVES??? ma lord almighty,,,

if i'm going for music music, it would be "Daisy" because he does my favourite line in that entire song ("haengbokhaeya dwae") in that whisper/breathy tone, sorry i'm just simping at this point

but by that logic, i would also associate him with "Naughty Boy" because of the chicken lyric ... it really stuck

if i don't put "One Shot" here, am i really a Shinwon fan?

so "One Shot" because he wrote it

Yeo One

"Pretty Pretty", definitely

high school Yeo One.

nerd Yeo One era.

mushroom Yeo One era.

Yeo One with GLASSES.

also "Eat" (originally by Zion.T) because :( Pentagon Maker :( Yan An :( comfort chocolate :( ("saranghae ... yO")

Yeo One's verse in "Round 1 - Bonus Track", specifically the part where he goes "nappeun saram ... Yanan, Yanan, Yanan"

Yanan

"Feelin' Like"

muscles.

absolute massive badonkerhonker muscles.

but also "Daisy" because i really like the way he dances in it, feels floaty and nice

also "Eat", for the same reasons as Yeo One

also "Round 1", specifically the part where he goes "(ya geuraedo bang gachi sseuneunde) HWAJANGSHI!!!"

Yuto

probably an unpopular opinion but "Shine" is one of them

his rap and the transition back to the group formation in their "Shine" stages left a sensation in my brain that i don't know how to explain

that one unique #notlikeothergirls "Yuto-da" in "Fantasystic"

those verses of Japanese rap in "Cerberus"? chef's kiss.

that low-toned Wooseok!mock-scream in "Round 2"

Kino

first of all, "Dr. Bebe", for less superficial reasons than Hongseok

like i really, and i mean REALLY love his entire persona in "Dr. Bebe"

from the stages to M/V, the facial expression and stature and makeup were EVERYTHING

in chinese, there's this thing we call 病态 (bìng tài), which directly translates to "state of being sickly" and it sounds kind of wack if you put it like that, but basically the way he embodied that psychological inner warfare in his dance and expressions was absolutely Oscar-worthy

"Daisy" because of his tattoo, and his florist dreams, and his dance, and that mafia dance variety thing they did

just. "Daisy". yeah.

Wooseok

i don't know if it's because of his unique rapping tone, but i associate him with a lot of Pentagon's songs

i mean he wrote and composed my absolute favourite Pentagon song, "BAD"

he also did "Nostalgia", which i like

his verse in "Sparkling Night"??? vocal Wooseok???

"Naughty Boy"??????????

okay that one because i hated his hair in it, i'm sorry Wooseok

but also i felt like he was so intrinsically linked with that song for some reason

it just screamed Wooseok to me

uhm

"The Magic Flute ("Der Hölle Rache" - Queen of the Night aria)"

oops

i'm sorry that was just for the crack i swear

[pinkhyojin]

pretty/fun/etc mvs! - a.c.e, favorite boys director's cut, down - yena, smartphone - day6, darling of the beach - woodz, feel like, love me harder, - pentagon, naughty boy, violet, cerberus - sunmi, siren, heartburn - chungha, play, stay tonight - sf9, summer breeze (i know you don't care for suits but the vibes are cool) - weki meki, crush - rocket punch, ring ring - fromis_9, love bomb - the boyz, bloom bloom, drink it - btob, outsider - kingdom, excalibur

the a.c.e mvs just made me kind of sad even though they are not sad in any way😭 also they just reminded me of how beautiful and talented they are💖

oh smartphone was very cute, and kind of keeping in line with the aesthetics of her last mv too!

darling on the beach was a crazy trip😭 very bright and colorful which was nice!

woodz is so…. ya know? feel like changed my life! one of his best looks, best songs, the mv is visually stunning. i don’t think i’d seen the full mv for love me harder but what a fun concept and fun twist!

naughty boy song of my liiiife! violet definitely a contender for top ptg song. and all i could hear in cerberus was “we are care bears”

oh the sunmi mvs were both very cool but the heartburn plot is crazy!!!!

chungha always delivers visually stunning music videos, so good

summer breeze was a very fun watch!! and these suits were good because there was variety☺️

ahh weme.. love them so much! great song, great mv!

i feel bad, ring ring was kind of boring to me. pretty but didn’t hook me:/

love bomb had a nicely executed concept!

the whiplash between those two tbz mvs is crazy. we have fun loving extraterrestrial baseball players. then we do a 180 to homoerotic vampires. gotta love the variety!

the outsider.. SO MANY THINGS ARE GOING ON!! i love this music video and the song is so vibey omg

KINGDOM IS SO FUCKING COOL I LOVE THEIR CONCEPT SO MUCH. After having seen the rest of their stuff as they’ve released it going back to their debut/introduction is soooo neat. Like all of the nods to their future works in this mv is so brilliant. Also do they say “open the gate” in all of their songs?? I’m gonna need a lore check on this.

[yetisidelblog]

As we grapple with the complex web of systemic issues—economic disparity, racial injustice, and eroding democratic norms—a new concern has emerged: the potential appointment of Stephen Feinberg, a billionaire investor with ties to the military-industrial complex, to a key Pentagon role in the upcoming administration. Feinberg's firm, Cerberus Capital Management, is deeply embedded in defense interests, raising significant alarms about the influence of private equity within our government. This is not an isolated incident. Such appointments threaten to prioritize corporate profits over public welfare, undermining democratic processes and public trust. Add your name to the petition: No private equity executives in the Defense Department. The urgency is palpable. As nominees with potential conflicts of interest step forward, the risks to public interests—from environmental protection to labor rights—are too severe to ignore. We must challenge these appointments and advocate for policies that halt private equity influence in our defense department. Sign the petition: No Private Equity Execs in the Defense Department.

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[followdelight]

Will we ever get another song by the Mayonnaise line or do we have to wait for the middle children to enlist first.

[leaving-fragments]

listening to pentagon cerberus, hearing we are care barers 🩹🏋️, yeah we are care bearers 🩺🐻

[minwooks-moved]

pentagon or wei!

hiiii al 💞 will do both :]

ptg ✦ﾟ.︡⋆ :: first bias(es) :: hyunggu/kino ! however i think it was like … a tie between him nd ynan nd yuto at one point …. pre-rlly knowing them ……………. current bias(es) :: hongseok + changgu <3 my sister had a hand in … these but mostly changgu ndndnd (cannot .. cannot call him yeo one sawry it feels wrong .) they r my guys nd . i just . u knwo ……. album ranking/most-to-least faves :: we:th > love or take > in:vite u > eternal flame > demo_2 = genie:us > five senses = sum(me:r) > thumbs up! = positive > ceremony = demo_1 = pentagon > u: the black hall || don’t rlly … listen to the other solos/special releases nd cerberus feels like . it IS ptg but also it’s not u know [would b up there w/eternal flame if it didn’t feel wrong to include] how i got into them :: i don’t ?? really remember as they’ve like .. rlly always been around for as long as i’ve liked kpop for me, tbh. like even if i didn’t KNOW them, i still listened to them ??? if that makes sense 😭 that’s why like … it was so strange for me to hav found out that they r like …….. Tinie…………… which member would be my best friend :: not to b cocky but . wooseok u know …. i’d 👁️👁️ nd he’d 👁️👁️ nd it’d b good 👍 NDBFN … on a real note … i rlly couldn’t tell u … like i’m thinking abt it nd . :0 something i associate w/them or a bias/member :: for them as a whole, probably the feeling of like .. nostalgia ! like . when you look through ur camera roll nd see moments of happiness that create a certain softness of a feeling that you miss but also hold no sadness abt ?? like if that makes sense 😭 nd i also associate plants + the glee of having something so . warm & delicate with hyunggu <3 nd sweaters + the niceness&reassurance of quiet company w/hongk…… <3 <3

wei ❋.︡⋆ :: first bias(es) :: daehyeon :3 ! nd ... this might b shocking, but there was a split (quiet) second when junseo was also a bias before it was just hyeon again .. :P i like if i remember correctly we of i bieline went hyeon -> hyeon + jnseo for a day -> back to just hyeon -> hyeon + yhan -> yhan + hyeon -> yhan -> where it is now.... current bias(es) :: yohan + junseo <3 yhan is an ult where as jnseo is just... (vaguely gestures) ... album ranking/most-to-least fave :: identity: action > indentity: challenge = love pt.1: first love > youth = love pt.2: passion = identity: first sight || cannot remember what the other releases sound like,,, sawry 😔 how i got into them :: through my dash / ro + millie / my younger sister :3 which member would be my best friend :: due to the fact he reminds me of one of my very treasured irl besties, i'd say donghan ! ;3 something i associate with them :: ro !! nd millie !! nd !! the warm feeling of a summer roadtrip..... going to a state fair with friends nd staying out late.....how it feels to have a nice breeze on a sunny day..... collecting your fave type of jewelry... spending the day on the beach nd it not . be absolutely awful…….

send me a group for...... !

[huiverse]

ok I should have written more in the original post but reblogging to answer @gudakdalee's questions from the tags if u don't mind!

kino has a few solo songs at this point!

pose

fashion style

freaky love

broke my heart

solo

valentine

dancing on the road

everglow

#2 onwards was after his cube contract ended, #2-6 were part of the "if this is love, i don't want a refund" album, and #7-8 were recent single releases!

here is the setlist for the korean version of this concert with translations - there's actually a few ptg songs on there actually (shine, spring snow, sparkling night, nostalgia, cerberus, probably a few more?), it basically looks like 1/2 his official releases + 1/4 ptg songs + 1/4 his soundcloud songs. however I don't know if the setlist will change for the US tour + for the ptg songs if he did them in their entirety or just parts of them (like I saw a clip from his other concert where shine was just a sing-along of the chorus with the audience).

also if it encourages anyone, all stops except for NY still have VIP packages available where you can meet kino and take a photo (photos?) with him!

I'm sure he'd love to meet unis no matter how long they've been a fan 🥺 his english is also really good now, you can hear him speak in some tiktoks and he'll caption posts/reply to people in english and knows like trends and memes lmao. and I think most of his post-cube songs are all in english?

he made an IG for the tour with more info (@kino.tour) and here's an abbreviated concert description as well (if you live in other countries I hope kino comes tour near you!! I see a lot of people ask about europe and south america in his comments)

He was born for the stage and he lives to entertain audiences. From his mesmerizing dance moves to entirely rearranged set list for a live band setting, the entertainment-packed show is set to stimulate all your senses. KINO started his career in music as a member of a popular K-pop boyband, PENTAGON. He honed his artistry in every way he could as a singer, dancer, painter, producer, composer and choreographer. In 2023, he established his own label, NAKED to expand his launch his solo career. The all-rounder once commented that the reason for him to take this life challenge was to test out his limit outside of his comfort zone. With his music, he wants to get connected with audiences with genuine stories and feelings that everyone can relate to. His first EP, "If this love, I want a refund" was dubbed 'a diary of our lives' and was ranked the second highest new entry on Worldwide iTunes album chart; From the lead single 'Broke My Heart (feat. Lay Bankz)' to 'Solo' the 5 track represented a full cycle of a relationship. From music to tour, KINO's been taking a role as an executive producer on all of the projects under NAKED, bringing his creative ideas to life. Out of all, what KINO enjoys the most is meeting audience at a live event; sharing emotions and creating co-experienced memories by interacting with audiences in the same room. KINO's ready to bring the best performance of your life, come meet him at the show.

kino US tour who's going??? 🤩

[fullsunsunoo]

펜타곤 (PENTAGON) - 'Cerberus (Song By 유토, 키노, 우석)' Official Music Video

[un1navy]

PENTAGON Wooseok Kino Yuto

We are the Cerberus

[demonlullaby]

MAKNAE LINE MORE LIKE INSANE LINE THEY DID THAT THEY DID THATTTTTT

[julyarchives]

Eu não sei oq falar somente sentir

só me vem uma palavra na cabeça, e é: G O S T O S O

[arasokanbina]

The swagger!

[shint0buri]

Oh my god, the mayonnaise, YES