Posted on 02/22/2021 2:17:46 PM PST by Onthebrink
The B-2 Spirit is the United States Air Force’s only stealth bomber in service today. It has remained in service because it can do things other aircraft simply can’t do. Since its introduction in 1997, the Northrop Grumman B-2 has often been the first to fight. It is also the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration. The B-2 can carry up to sixteen B-61 or megaton-yield B-83 nuclear gravity bombs on the rotary launchers inside its two bomb bays. The aircraft’s avionics are even hardened versus the electromagnetic pulses generated by nuclear blasts.
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Nice for flyovers. There’s a reason the B-52 and B-1 are still very strategic and useful. Stealth is great but stealth in 1997 is obsolete now.
The B-2 has issues.
Issues fixed by the B-21, which I am pretty sure I saw getting moved on the ground one day. I suppose it could have been a B-2, but it looked off.
They’re flying, anyway.
Impressive sight for a high school kid.
I wonder if we will see it used on American soil in my lifetime. I’d bet on it, if I was a betting man.
500 feet... frying chickens in the barnyard?
(PS, name the movie reference)
I want one
Buck
Nailed it
True but outside of stealth, the B-2 can carry two 30,000lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (likely two for balance).
I’m sure Linda Graham, Cheney, and Biden can’t wait to use it
On us.
IIRC, the B-2 costs a billion bucks(?)
“over at no more than 500 feet”
I was at an airshow in Wheeling W.va in 1986 and two P-51’s came in on the first pass an went over the crowd at maybe 200 feet...and that is generous.
The vibration literally knocked some people off their feet.It made my stomach upset for a 1/2 hour afterward.
I think it was goof up and they did not know where the crowd was because it did not happen again.
“over at no more than 500 feet”
I was at an airshow in Wheeling W.va in 1986 and two P-51’s came in on the first pass an went over the crowd at maybe 200 feet...and that is generous.
The vibration literally knocked some people off their feet.It made my stomach upset for a 1/2 hour afterward.
I think it was goof up and they did not know where the crowd was because it did not happen again.
At my office, I have a young engineer on my staff and he tracks his assigned projects on a large white board. He never gets the reference to “the big board” when I mention it. My older staff have no problem, which then leads us into other Dr. Strangelove trivia.
I was stationed at Ellsworth from 80 to 82. The BUFF is a sight to see up close.
Pretty majestic in the air but the charm quickly recedes after humping them for 8 hours on the ground with snow up to your privates.
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