re: Has anyone ever seen a B2 bomber before?

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Fair enough, but they usually lampshade this drawback by directly addressing it with a line of dialogue like “The B2 fleet is being refitted and will be out of commission for months.” Just something to assuage the back-of-the-mind questions the audience would have considering most Top Gun audience members know about stealth technology and have known for 30 years.

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While this is true to a point, I vaguely remember in the initial briefing that they mentioned the walls of the canyon were too steep to preclude a LGB strike from an aircraft utilizing a typical bomb drop angle.

An F-117 nighthawk would not have the maneuverability to ingress from the canyon below the radar of the S-300's.

Remember they said the response time for the bad guys was @ 3 mins to get to the reactor site, so the lack of speed by a B-2, would have made it a sacrificial lamb to the bad guy's 5th Gen fighters, if not on ingress than definitely on egress. And we probably are not cool with losing A/C that cost 2.1 Billion a pop.