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On April 15, 2024, nearly two-thirds of the United States Air Force's fleet of Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bombers participated in a historic display at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

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The Raiders are on their way. The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is supposed to be the US Air Force’s (USAF) next great long-range bomber. If Air Force expectations pan out, a hundred or more of the bombers will join the fleet in the next decades, providing the core of one-third of the nuclear triad and a lethal precision strike capability.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Mother Nature tried, but not even she could stop the XXXV Krewe of Gemini parade from rolling Saturday in Shreveport. There were tons of umbrellas along the

In total, 8 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were put on the tarmac as a warning, as no nation on Earth has anything like the B-2. Not even China or Russia. 

Mike Grant, Dublin

On February 23, 2008 at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, two pilots from the 509th Bomb Wing from Whiteman Air Force Base were on board the B-2 Spirit of Kansas (89-0127) and were forced to eject.

The "B-2" in B-2 Spirit is not shorthand for "Budget Buster," but the original stealth bomber is indeed the most expensive airplane ever built. Just how expensive? $2.13 Billon per plane. 

With just twenty operation B-2 stealth bombers, the United States Air Force certainly can't afford to have any sidelined, and losing another in a crash would be in a word: devastating.

The B-2 has a crew of two pilots, a pilot in the left seat and a mission commander in the right, compared to the B-1B Lancer’s crew of four and the B-52 Stratofortress‘ crew of five.