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The rollout of the B-21 Raider, the most advanced officially disclosed aircraft mankind has ever built, has captured imaginations and has spurred new interest in the future of air combat in stealth bombers.

At the same time, the B-2 Spirit, still alien looking many decades after first being shown to the public, is entering into the golden years of its service.

Northrop's original stealth flying wing represented an absolute quantum leap in military aviation technology and remains an icon of aerospace innovation. But there was another aircraft design that competed directly with it at the time four decades ago as part of the highly classified Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB) program. That was Lockheed Skunk Works' 'Senior Peg' stealth bomber concept.

More than four decades after Northrop won the Advanced Technology Bomber competition, the available granular details about the competing design from Lockheed's famed Skunk Works advanced projects division, and its evolution, remain relatively limited. The War Zone has reached out in the past to Skunk Works for more information about the proposed aircraft and was told that there really wasn't anything in the company's archives to share that isn't out there already. As such, Senior Peg's story remains a relatively murky one with many gaps. What we do know is provided from unique on-the-record perspectives.

What is most immediately clear is that the relationship between the F-117A Nighthawk and its predecessors and the Senior Peg bomber concept is more than simply a product of Skunk Works having developed both of them. There is a direct lineage that can be traced from the Have Blue stealth demonstrator to Senior Peg.
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