A few years back in 2018, the Air Force’s B-2 Stealth bomber test-dropped an upgraded, multi-function B61-12 nuclear bomb which improves accuracy, integrates various attack options into a single
The Air Force currently operates 20 B-2 bombers, with the majority of them based at Whiteman AFB in Missouri. The B-2 can reach altitudes of 50,000 feet and carry 40,000 pounds of payload
You can see a previous photo story of the bombers above. Background. The first B-2 was publicly displayed on Nov. 22, 1988, when it was rolled out of its hangar at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale
B-2 Spirit stealth bombers assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base taxi and take-off during exercise Spirit Vigilance on Whiteman Air Force Base on November 7th, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman

I asked Robert Spalding, former commander of the Air Force’s 509th Operations Group - the nation’s only B-2 Stealth Bomber unit - what the few existing photos of the B-21 tell us.

The Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber. Wikimedia Commons Similar to the F-117, the B-2 "Spirit" bomber — commonly referred to as the "stealth bomber" — was also designed around evading detection. . 23 372 62 189 366 100 236 340 299

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