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[1] [4] The bomber can drop conventional and thermonuclear weapons, [5] such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged in-service aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
a B-2 Spirit Dropping Mk.82 Bombs. Persian یک بی-۲ اسپیریت در یک تمرین آموزشی در سال 1994 در نزدیکی پوینت موگو، کالیفرنیا، نزدیک پارک ایالتی پوینت موگو، بمبهای امکی۸۲ را به داخل اقیانوس آرام میاندازد.
A B-2 Spirit dropping Mk82 bombs into the Pacific Ocean in a 1994 training exercise off Point Mugu, California.. With a nominal weight of 500 lb (230 kg), it is one of the smallest bombs in current service, and one of the most common air-dropped weapons in the world.
Inspectors say Iran is dangerously close to making a nuclear weapon. If it goes that route, the B-2 bomber has the stealth and payload needed to knock out buried nuclear sites.
However, he said the use of the B-2 bomber, which is the only warplane in the U.S. arsenal that can carry 30,000-pound so-called bunker busting bombs, "was a unique demonstration of the United ...
High altitude carpet-bombing with much smaller 500-to-2,000-pound (230 to 910 kg) bombs delivered via heavy bombers such as the B-52, B-2, or the B-1 is also highly effective at covering large areas. [10] The MOAB is designed to be used against a specific target, and cannot by itself replicate the effects of a typical heavy bomber mission.
A B‑2 already in the air was called back to Andersen after the crash, where it and the other B‑2s were grounded until the initial investigation into the crash was complete. Six Boeing B‑52s of the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, were deployed to replace the B‑2s. [1] [12]
The GBU-37 (Guided Bomb Unit-37) Global Positioning System Aided Munition (GAM) was developed for use with the B-2 Bomber. The bomb can penetrate hardened targets or targets buried deep underground. The first all-weather precision-guided bunker buster, it became operational in 1997.