Master Sgt. Kyle Pearson and Tech. Sgt. Kevin Koenig are pictured at a simulated austere base during an Advanced Battle Management System exercise on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, in September 2020.

Fog machines, short lenses, no iPhone: managing the deployment of the B-21

PALMDALE, Calif. — When it came time to deploy the Air Force’s newest stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, the line between public transparency and revealing too much information was barely visible to the naked eye. . “Below 2 inches,” a Northrop Grumman-jacketed security official told one of the press photographers, whose camera tripod was slightly …

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