The B2 Spirit looks like a stealth bomber melted over a tube frame and told to behave. It doesn’t. It crackles, huffs, and squats on gold blades of wheels, promising fireworks. Then it lines up ...

Explore the psychological warfare waged by the B-2 Spirit, a bomber that strikes fear into adversaries without even being ...

In June 2025, the U.S. deployed the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to destroy strategic nuclear sites in Iran, an operation that was deemed a "very successful attack" by President Donald Trump. The mission ...

Today's military aircraft aren't cheap; a point noted in that the United States Air Force spent approximately $23.7 million over four years to repair and return to service a Northrop B-2 Spirit bomber ...

The “Spirit of Georgia” parks by a hangar at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, Nov. 6, 2025. (Senior Airman Robert E. Hicks/U.S. Air Force) The odds were stacked against the resuscitation efforts of ...

While most reporters were focused on the B-2 heading to Guam, the actual strike package was already flying east over the Atlantic Ocean toward its targets in Iran. Few days after the mobilization of U ...

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 ...