The name of America ’s late stealth bomber was just announced this aurora . And it ’s notBomby McBomberface . The B-21 will be known as the Raider and it ’s all thanks to two airman who submitted the name .
The name was crowdsourced by the Air Force , but the contest was only open to airmen and women and their family . The Air Force pick up over 4,600 entry before they closed the competition in May . Gizmodo submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the list of epithet , which hadbeen deny .
The name was announced by Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James at the Air Force Association ’s annualAir , Space & Cyberconference , Dixie of Washington , D.C. this break of day . It ’s become a bit of a game in military R-2 to come up with pathetic potential names for the B-21 .
The B-21 Raider‘s prescribed budget is a closed book , but it ’s bruit to be over $ 42 billion . Senator John McCain has been a vocal opposition of the secrecy around theB-21 ’s budget .
Despite the fact that Gizmodo ’s FOIA request was traverse and the Air Force will reportedly be release the list of names that were “ officially considered , ” we ’ll still be pursuing the story of why the name for the B-21 was crowdsourced .
Update 12:03pm : The two airmen who submitted the name “ Raider ” were Jaime Hernandez and Derek White .
From anAir Force insistence release , that curiously now says only “ 2,100 unique name were submitted , ” contradicting a May public press sack that say over 4,600 names were submit :
B-21 designation contest selected member :
· Lt . Col . Jaime I. Hernandez , 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron commander , Dyess Air Force Base , Texas
· Tech . Sgt . Derek D. White , parking brake direction craftsman , 175th Civil Engineering Squadron , Maryland Air National Guard
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