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The B-2 is the only acknowledged in-service aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration. Development began under the Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB) project during the Carter administration, which cancelled the Mach 2-capable B-1A bomber in part because the ATB showed such promise. But development ...
The Curtiss B-2 Condor was a 1920s United States bomber aircraft. It was a descendant of the Martin NBS-1 , which was built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for the Glenn L. Martin Company .
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 ...
The B-2 can also carry other powerful munitions, including 500-pound and 2,000-pound bombs. It's an aircraft that sends a message like few others can. Read the original article on Business Insider
Avro Vulcan B.2 XH533, the first B.2 Vulcan, flying at Farnborough in 1958. The 46th production aircraft and first B.2, XH533, first flew in September 1958 using Olympus 200 engines, six months before the last B.1 XH532 was delivered in March 1959. [49] The second B.2, XH534, flew in January 1959.
The operation focused on integrating the stealth bomber with US allies and partners over the Indo-Pacific region. Photos show a US Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flying with Japanese F-35s for the ...
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 ...
The improved Victor B.2 started to be delivered in 1961, with the first B.2 Squadron, 139 Squadron, forming in February 1962, and a second, 100 Squadron, in May 1962. [40] These were the only two bomber squadrons to form on the B.2, as the last 28 Victors on order were cancelled. [25]