The USAF's B-21 bomber needs a name.

[kentauros]

www.ajc.com/news/news/national/image-of-secret-bomber-revealed/nqYsp/
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James unveiled the illustration Friday for the first time at an Air Force Association convention in Orlando, Florida.

“We have an image. We have a designation, but here’s what we don’t have,” she told the audience. “We don’t yet have a name.”

I propose [font color="firebrick"]Mineshaft Gap[/font] or maybe the [font color="firebrick"]PBF-01[/font] (Precious Bodily Fluids-01.)

What other names would work?

[hobbit709]

1. Big Boondoggle.

[kentauros]

2. Well, that's a given.

What humorous ones do ya have?

[Sherman A1]

46. Precisely

If they want a bomber they could simply use any airline or cargo type airframe with standoff weapons and bingo, it's done. Although I would like to see the B-36 line restarted. Those aircraft make a statement.

[LongTomH]

52. Boeing suggested loading its 747 with cruise missiles, years ago.

Why Boeing's Design for a 747 Full of Cruise Missiles Makes Total Sense.

[Lochloosa]

3. NotASchoolBook-21 or NASB-21 for short...like the military likes it.

[kentauros]

4. Yeah, that's a good point.

My first thought on seeing their image of it was "Why does this look the same as the previous one?" So, I guess we could use that as the name:

SameAsItEverWas-21 or SAIEW-21

[sarge43]

5. The Flying Money Pit

/on edit/

Well, whatever it's officially called, the troops will probably come up with a better one.

For example, official name of the A-10 is Thunderbolt, troop's name Warthog. B-52, Stratofortess, aka Buff (big ugly fat f*cker), and so forth.

[kentauros]

6. Add a 'k' and it's funnier:

The Flying-Monkey Pit

[sarge43]

7. That could work

[malthaussen]

31. And let's not talk about the A-7...

... I always had a soft spot for the F-111, too.

-- Mal

[sarge43]

37. Yeah, not a lot of love there

I do like the unofficial motto of the C-5: Size Does Matter.

[Aristus]

8. Albatross.

n/t

[sarge43]

9. Nah, already taken by the F-35. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

10. TRE-1

Terrorist Recruitment Energizer - 1

[flamin lib]

11. Brave Fox Destroyer

BFD or Brave Fox Delta translates to Big Fucking Deal

[kentauros]

16. I like that one!

[flamin lib]

12. The original F117 Stealth Fighter was nicknamed the Wobbly Goblin

Fighter was a misnomer as it had no defensive weaponry, only it's "invisibility" to short wave radar. 'Course the old WWII longwave radar sees it just fine. Wobbly Goblin because the on-board computer was just slow enough to have the airplane constantly adjusting to keep it in the air. Wonder what the air sickness bag contract was worth.

Maybe the Shakey Flakey?

[sarge43]

14. The Winged Bulls Eye? n/t

[kentauros]

15. And "Vomit Comet" is already taken

by NASA's KC-135

If they have a similar problem with this one, then how about BARF-21 (Big-Ass-Regurgitation-Flyer)?

[flamin lib]

13. The Elusive Defender.

ED for short.

[Ptah]

17. The Boomerang.

It will come back and hit you, at $500 million each.

[kentauros]

18. That'll leave a mark!

[malthaussen]

32. The CAC fighter already has that name.

But, hey, that was in WWII, it's only fitting that it should return.

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=609

-- Mal

[kentauros]

53. "it's only fitting that it should return."

[eppur_se_muova]

19. The Inequalitizer. nt

[jpak]

20. The Santorum

[GreydeeThos]

21. The Roachclip . n/t

[KamaAina]

22. The Penis Extension.

[trof]

23. The Rathole.

[LiberalElite]

24. Pragmatic nt

[The Second Stone]

25. The Nazgul

because it is invisible to mere mortals, will last forever, and any woman can mortalize it with just a speech.

[kairos12]

26. The Winged Anvil

[jmowreader]

27. Come on, you know what it'll be

The B-21 Blackjack!

[shenmue]

28. Fluffy

[kentauros]

30. Fluffy?!

Is this the LOL-AF now?

[sakabatou]

39. Why not? A 3-headed dog was named Fluffy.

[kentauros]

41. Yes, in a fantasy book.

Unfortunately, the AF isn't a fantasy

[sakabatou]

44. And yet they have jets named "Phantoms" and "Ghosts"

[lastlib]

45. and "Spirit"

[kentauros]

47. Probably because those have intimidating aspects to their meanings.

Unless you know the context for "Fluffy" it'll be meaningless to most

I mean, it took you telling me that it was a three-headed dog to remind me of the context. If you have to explain it beyond the meaning of the string of letters (as with many military equipment designations) then it doesn't really work.

[sakabatou]

57. Fluffy could be its cover name

Just like how films have a "working title."

[kentauros]

58. Okay.

But, like with a joke, if it has to be explained, then it doesn't work well as a name, other than in complete jest as I took it originally

[GreydeeThos]

29. The Emoji

📈

[malthaussen]

33. Looks like a bat to me.

So we could call it the Flying Rat.

-- Mal

[El Supremo]

34. Major Kong

[kentauros]

35. I had actually considered that!

"Nuclear combat toe to toe with the Rooskies!"

[mrmpa]

36. The original military acronym.....FUBAR-01

[Prospero1]

38. B-21 Budget Buster

[sakabatou]

40. Banshee?

[Chan790]

42. B-21 Dementor?

I think it has a perverse sensibility to it...it's big, scary, black as night, hard to detect, and will drive people mad.

[GoCubsGo]

43. B-21 Boondoggle.

Because you just know it's going to be one...

[Orsino]

48. Theft.

Per Ike.

[kentauros]

49. I'm almost getting the impression I posted in the wrong group.

This isn't GD by chance, is it?

[LongTomH]

50. B-21 Flying White Elephant???

[kentauros]

51. That would be the "FWE"

FWE Wuv!

[misterhighwasted]

54. FWEdumb

Yup it'll be called
FWEdumb

[kentauros]

55. That's it!

The Englebert Humperdinck Memorial FWEdumb Bomber

[misterhighwasted]

56. Haahaaahaa..

Okay..that's funny
Ha.