A July visit to the B-2A Spirit at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton is a reminder: this bomber was built to slip past the toughest air defenses on earth. -The Spirit came from a Cold War need to ...

Novel capabilities ensure B-2 crews can ‘aviate, navigate, communicate, strike their targets, and get home safely’ with a bomber which ‘remains ready, effective, and survivable.’ The U.S. Air Force ...

Key point: The B-2s serve their purpose, but they are so expensive and now increasingly out-of-date that there’s no point in building more. Instead, the Air Force wants a newer, stealthier... Key ...

The B-2 Spirit Bomber is the most expensive aircraft ever conceived, with an average unit cost exceeding $2 billion (when adjusted for inflation). It is also an incredibly costly aircraft to operate ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force has the world's only permanent public exhibition of a B-2. B-2 planes are known for their stealth technology, long flight range, and nuclear capability. The ...

The Air Force's B-2 Spirit bombers are undergoing several modernization efforts. Those include better stealth, communications technologies, and maintenance schedules. B-2s, like the ones used to bomb ...

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is perhaps the most recognizable American military plane of all time. It can reach subsonic speeds of over 600 mph, carry a payload of 40,000 pounds, and fly 6,000 ...

The B-2 Spirit is one of the United States Air Force's most complex and fascinating aircraft. The B-2 is the second aircraft designed with advanced stealth tech and the first dedicated stealth ...

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, in 2022 when its left landing gear collapsed, driving its wingtip against the ground and sparking a fire and two explosions.