The US Air Force has begun construction of the first special facility exclusively designed to support the operation of the B-21 Raider strategic bomber, at Dyess Air Force Base (Texas).
The cost of the facility is 78 million dollars, the area is 4.3 thousand square meters. from. It will include secure complexes for planning combat operations, state-of-the-art communication systems and control infrastructure.
The construction is part of a $1.6 billion base modernization program that includes more than 24 construction and renovation projects over the next ten years.
Dyess will become the third primary air base for the B-21 Raider, after Ellsworth and Whiteman AFB.