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This one is to go with my "Fighter Jet Montage," and this is the Photoshopped version, blue and better shaded.

It's supposed to be the successor to the B-2 Spirit, the main improvement is this airplane being supersonic flight. It's inspired by an article in Defense News (a military-industrial complex magazine, you could call it) about how the USAF wanted a new bomber, and it mentioned that pilots would like something a little more 'zippy'.

The name is a reference to the B-2's "Spirit" moniker, which sounds to me like a name a 7-year-old girl would give to a pony. So, what's another cheesy pony name? ...Rainbow.
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!ACX-62-814 Jul 31, 2009
Interesting... Yet it appears to have an 'evil' or even macabre air about it. Definitely doesn't appear to me to be something released by the US Government or even SkunkWorks. It seems to look a bit alien maybe...
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~Airrider1 Jan 20, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
Might wanna be careful with that name. "Rainbow" was once the name of the XF-12, a prop-driven plane that was beautiful but obsolete before she flew. A fabulous flop: born right as the jet age was starting...
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~PrinzEugn Feb 16, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I dunno, I think "Rainbow" has shifted in the lexicon to be more associated with being childrens fantasy themed. It's like naming it the RQ-4A "Sparkle," it just sounds dumb to the modern ear.
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~DolphinSilverwolf Dec 15, 2011
Not quite sure it's that much of a problem, really. "The B-3 Rainbow: when the enemy has to be 20% deader."
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~Paradur187 Jul 30, 2008   Traditional Artist
Velly nice, I like. Hmm, it looks kinda like a blackbird that got future-ized and turned into a bomber. What's the B-4 gunna be called? "Coco", maybe? :D
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~PrinzEugn Jan 22, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Seriously, they need to get better people on those names, although apparently the UAV's are getting cool names while the F-35 is getting a rerun with "Lighting... II!"
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~Paradur187 Jan 22, 2009   Traditional Artist
Well...they didn't do too badly with the F/A-22 "Raptor".

As for the UCAV's getting the cooler names, my personal theory is this: The lamer the plane is, the cooler the name they give it, just as a means of compensating for how much the plane sucks. Which is why you get moronic names like "SUPER Hornet" and "Lightning TWO" for kick-ass jets, and cooler names like "Predator" and "Reaper" for pissy little cash-waster UCAV's.
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~PrinzEugn Feb 6, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I dunno, everybody loves Reapers...
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~ballisticCow Jun 9, 2008   Digital Artist
that is a very sexy design. :D
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~PrinzEugn Jun 29, 2008  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you! I'm probably going to an updated design one of these days...
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