Warzone/The Drive: Look Back At The Birth Of The B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber In This Intimate New Video Series
With the upcoming 30th anniversary of the B-2's roll-out, a video series packed full of new images and video spotlights those who made it all happen.
The B-2 Spirit was first unveiled to the public on November 22nd, 1988. Three decades later, it still captures imaginations and rightfully so. Its striking low-observable flying wing design looks as otherworldly now as it did in the late 1980s and it still contains many secrets even after all these years. Considering how similar the upcoming B-21 Raider design appears to be to its forebearer, it's amazing just how much Northrop got right when designing the world's first stealth bomber in an era when the cellular phone was still in its infancy. Now, the plane's maker, Northrop Grumman, has released a number of short but intimate videos to celebrate their stealth bomber legacy as they look forward to bringing its successor to life.
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WNU Editor: Some cool B-2 videos at the link.
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With the onset of the quantum radars, and a leap in interception/weapon speed (hypersonic rockets,electromagnetic guns and lasers), the end of slowish aircrafts is near. Within 5-10 years the target group the stealth bombers are mostly aimed for - near peer adversaries like china and Russia - are fielding all these technologies in a fully operational manner. And currently we don't even know a way to surpass these new technologies. How would you escape quantum entangled photon detection? That's beyond hard. Currently in physics there is no way to do that. Not even in theoretical quantum physics. It is absolutely cutting edge, and the stealth bomber principles (sjape, surface coating) are 1960s technologies. Just look at how old the SR71 is.
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