Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit – Warbird Wednesday Episode #129

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit - Warbird Wednesday

Welcome to Warbird Wednesday! Today we are visiting an intriguing heavy strategic bomber, the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber. The B-2 is a flying wing design with only a crew of two. Designed during the Cold War, this subsonic bomber was built to deploy conventional and thermonuclear weapons, including eighty 500-pound guided bombs or sixteen 2,400-pound nuclear bombs. Due to the cost of maintaining and flying the Stealth Bomber, there were only 21 aircrafts built and they are not used as often.