Key Points and Summary - Despite its Cold War origins, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber remains an eminently capable and continuously evolving platform. -The U.S. Air Force is constantly modernizing the ...

The B2 stealth bomber had problems flying in the rain because water easily eroded its radar-evading skin. And its design let ...

Basic amenities wrapped in stealth give B-2 crews the stamina to steer America’s quietest bomber through forty-hour, ...

Perhaps less well publicized is the fact that its extraordinarily high sustainment cost is the driving factor behind its ...

After 35 years of lessons from the B-2, the B-21 Raider arrives with 360° stealth, a radar return likened to a mosquito, and ...

The aircraft suffered a landing gear collapse at Whiteman AFB on Sep. 14, 2021, and was put through an extensive Programmed Depot Maintenance at Plant 42 ...

The recent exercises followed last year’s 2024 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, in which a B-2 Spirit successfully sank a decommissioned Austin-class amphibious transport dock. A United States ...

The small number of B-2s in the Air Force’s inventory—and the labor-intensive process of maintaining its stealth coating—put ongoing maintenance costs as high as $200,000 per flight hour. The B-2 ...

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 ...

Photos show the mass fly-off of 12 B-2s at Whiteman Air Force Base earlier this week.

The video, shared by Trump aide Margo Martin on X, formerly Twitter, showed Trump and Putin walking down a red carpet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson when the bomber, flanked by fighter jets, ...