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The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, [3] is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop (later Northrop Grumman ) as the prime contractor, with Boeing ...
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.
On 23 February 2008, a B‑2 crashed on the runway shortly after takeoff from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. [1] The crash of the Spirit of Kansas, 89-0127, which had been operated by the 393rd Bomb Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and had logged 5,100 flight hours, [6] was the first crash of a B‑2. [7]
Notably, the B-2 is the only aircraft in the Air Force that is programmed to drop the GBU-57 MOP "bunker buster." The GBU-57 MOP, or Massive Ordnance Penetrator, is a GPS-guided, 30,000-pound bomb ...
On 30 November 1988, SAC announced that the 509th Bomb Wing would divest its FB-111 and KC-135 aircraft, relocate from its then-home station of Pease AFB, New Hampshire which was being realigned as an Air National Guard base pursuant to BRAC, and become the nation's first operational B-2 bomber unit. On 17 December 1993, Whiteman AFB's first B ...
Still, Mohammed Albasha, an independent security analyst who specializes in Yemen, said the U.S. operation with B-2 bombers indicates "a shift in U.S. policy" to a "firmer stance against the group ...
The decision comes after one of the bombers experienced an in-flight malfunction that resulted in an emergency landing and fire earlier this month. Air Force grounds entire B-2 fleet after ...
#1: A B-2 Spirit at Night #2: High resolution shot #3: High resolution shot rotated. I think this image is striking; it appears in the B-2 Spirit article. Its an United States Air Force public domain photo loaded by Radical Bender. Nominate and support. - TomStar81 10:14, 16 July 2005 (UTC) Oppose. Dark, and an uninformative angle.