To see an operation of this precision and stealth is going to be taught at war colleges for decades
NEW VIDEO: B-2 bombers land back at Whiteman Air Force Base today in Knob Noster, Missouri, after about a 36-hour flight to strike targets in Iran.
Seven B-2s took off from Whiteman just after 12 a.m. on Saturday. The first bombers back landed just before 12 p.m. Sunday.
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I wonder if there are any DEI B-2 pilots.
It’s the Air Force, I bet the snacks were excellent.
NICE its like having your own lil man cave(Or girl cave) gotta have a toilet I mean its 37 hours where are you gonna do your business gotta do it somewhere
were these the ones that could or couldn’t be out in the rain.
Did they flush the toilet while over Iran?
Don’t forget to give thanks to the maintenance crew for keeping the planes flying without problems.
Hopefully, the next generation bomber will have a soda fountain machine and in flight Netflix movies.
I should hope so! Were they supposed to hold “it” and starve?
Mid-1960s I flew 4 long missions, “Chrome Dome and HardHat.”
Each mission was about 25 hours, 2 refuelings each.
The B-52 had a crew of six. Pilot, co pilot, Radar Navigator Navigator,Electronic Warfare offoce rand Gunner. we carried an extra pilot.,
Yes, the box lunches were OK. The heat up meals were not so good, at all.
I remember the fatigue. The landings were “arrivals,” just getting the big
horse on the runway and deploying the “drag chute!”
I felt that it was necessary to scrape, us, the crew, out of our seats!
The Strategic Air Command ended those missions following an accident that killed a friend of mine, Capt. Len Svitenko, In January 1968.
Ahhh, the memories, some good and one very sad.
Nothing worse than a long flight with a lousy inflight movie. I drew Ishtar on a Tokyo-DC marathon. Horrible.
No in-flight movie? how spartan!
But the post-strike movie would be positively gold!
I hope it is better than the toilet on the KC-135 we had fifty five years ago.
I remember early B-2 bomber pilots requested reclining patio chairs for long-flight naps. Aluminum frame chairs with webbing strips (ala Walmart outdoor section) for the resting pilot were never even considered in the original design of the gigantic bombers.
Just imagine some young skull full of mush, living in a remote area. The first time they set eyes on a photo or video of the B-2.
They will tell their friends that Batman attacked.
The crews bought their own lawn loungers for this purpose.
BREAKING NEWS: Airplanes have, like, toilets and stuff.
NY Post, always finding the hard-hitting news.