Tara Copp – AP Dec 19, 2022
The Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing and fire earlier this month, and none of the strategic aircraft will perform flyovers at this years’ college bowl games.
A bomber experienced an in-flight malfunction on Dec. 10, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, where it caught fire. The fire was extinguished and there were no injuries.
The standdown is significant in that there are fewer than 20 stealth bombers in the entire fleet and the aircraft provides, along with the B-52 Stratofortress, the air leg of the nation’s nuclear triad. The B-2 has been regularly deployed to the Indo-Pacific and more recently to Europe as a show of force. During the standdown the entire fleet will be inspected, 509th Bomb Wing spokeswoman Air Force Master Sgt. Beth Del Vecchio said.
The B-2 was scheduled to fly over the 2023 Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game but it will be replaced by the B-1 Lancer, the 509th Bomb Wing said in a statement.
The B-2 stealth bomber took its first flight in 1989 and its flying-wing design formed the base of its eventual replacement, the B-21 Raider, which was introduced this month. The B-21 is scheduled to make its first flight next year.
In Sept. 2021 another B-2 at Whiteman had to make an emergency landing after the hydraulics system failed, resulting in the bomber’s landing gear collapsing. The bomber’s left wing dragged for about a mile before the aircraft came to a halt, resulting in at least $10 million in damage to the aircraft.
The firemen could be injured by the burning coating. This stuff is super cancerous when it’s in its normal state. Let’s hope they were wearing breathing apparatus, as if I care. Was it a Chinese chip fire….
So it’s attained stealth at last? Won’t be seen for a while.
“stealth bombers”yeah, sure they are…
I remember when the Serbian Air Defenses shot down two (2) F-117 Nighthawk “stealth” attack jets in 1999, when NATO was bombarding European civilian populations in the very HEART of Europe with the complicity of all EU members, for those who have a short memory, the Serbs then made post-cards with photos of the the wreckage, with a caption saying: “Sorry, we didn’t know they were invisible”
It was hilariously funny, people laughed for days…
https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonutopia/comments/d6fom6/sorry_we_didnt_know_it_was_invisible_propaganda/
“The B-2 has been regularly deployed to the Indo-Pacific and more recently to Europe as a show of force.”
Yea that figures. A real paper tiger if ever there was one LOL.
The skin color becomes more importent then capabilities… This forced replacement will create a lot of problems in the time to come…
thats very good ! first Boeing, now this .
JEWUSA GO TO HELL !
you have earned hell , not paradise !
A quintessential irony, seems to me. Used to be, a few serious adverse effects from a “new vaccine”, and that was THAT. Pulled off the market immediately after a “risk signal”. Today, with mRNA “experimental” CONcoctions of chemical goo, the slow-kill, very effective injections remain highly touted and even mandated.
CONtrast with the B-2 bomber story….
That’s what happens when you steal Batman’s plane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit
This is the alleged Stealth Bomber(which I recall was a rip off of a German WW2 design)
It is supposed to UNdetectable from radar, but issues like heat signature make it detectable. It was first flown in 1989
Each plane costs close to $ 1BILLION
The scam from the Military Industrial Complex is to submit designs, get the contracts, and then perpetual cost overruns by design and perpetually rip- off the taxpayers.