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Has anyone ever seen a B2 bomber before?
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:28 pm
Just went down a YouTube rabbit hole watching some plane videos and was wondering who here has ever seen a B2 bomber. I’ve seen just about every US military plane flying except for a B1 and a B2 I guess because there are no military bases near Louisiana where they are stationed. I even saw an F-117 a really long time ago at the beach and that was pretty badass, but seeing a B2 is on my bucket list.
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Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:30 pm to lsudave1
No. Never
Thank god...
Thank god...
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:31 pm to lsudave1
Ugh, if you could see it then it wouldn't be a stealth bomber.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:33 pm to lsudave1
Not in months.
I dunno why I even flew the damn thing.
I dunno why I even flew the damn thing.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:33 pm to lsudave1
I saw one do a flyover at the Rose Bowl. They are quiet to the point of eeriness
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:34 pm to fightin tigers
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Ugh, if you could see it then it wouldn't be a stealth bomber.
Thought about addressing this in the OP lol I knew the comment was coming
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:34 pm to lsudave1
Yeah, I have done some work at Whiteman AFB before. Got to walk out on the apron and tour a B2. Also have seen plenty of B1's as well. Really cool aircrafts!!
This post was edited on 6/3/22 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:34 pm to lsudave1
Been a week since I saw Top Gun: Maverick, and maybe this was covered, but remind me...
Why wasn’t the final mission conducted with a stealth strike at night?
Why wasn’t the final mission conducted with a stealth strike at night?
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:34 pm to lsudave1
Lol yes. I lived near barksdale.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:35 pm to lsudave1
I’ve never seen one but I’ve helped pay for them.
Now I’m suspicious.
Now I’m suspicious.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:36 pm to lsudave1
I once saw a lot of them from my front yard about a decade ago. It was at night and very clear, and I was looking up at the stars as I liked to do, but some were disappearing and then reappearing shortly after. I then realized it was in the shape of a triangle and then knew what I was looking at: a B2 bomber. Couldn’t have been more than 3,000 feet in the air. Completely silent. And then there was another one, and another and so on. Called my mom outside and she saw them too. I feel relatively confident they were coming from Columbus MS since I lived northwest of there at the time, but I’m not sure where they were going. Pretty cool shite.
This post was edited on 6/3/22 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:36 pm to lsudave1
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:37 pm to lsudave1
Yes.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:40 pm to lsudave1
Oh, in an inversion of the typical trope of Reagan being tough on defense and tough on government waste, his made a political blunder one time that got us the wasteful B1 bomber.
He noticed Carter was shutting down the B1 program, which had a lot of jobs at stake in California. To win the Californian voters over, he used the B1 shutdown to claim Carter was soft on defense and was hurting Californian jobs.
But in reality, Carter was briefed on the waste the B1 program was incurring and how the B2 would be a superior bomber. But Carter couldn’t talk about the B2 because it was classified.
So, Reagan gets elected and finds out about the B2 program, but can’t renege on his campaign promise to re-start the B1 program and so we get two bombers built for the same mission.
I know the B1 got built, but was it ever used in combat?
He noticed Carter was shutting down the B1 program, which had a lot of jobs at stake in California. To win the Californian voters over, he used the B1 shutdown to claim Carter was soft on defense and was hurting Californian jobs.
But in reality, Carter was briefed on the waste the B1 program was incurring and how the B2 would be a superior bomber. But Carter couldn’t talk about the B2 because it was classified.
So, Reagan gets elected and finds out about the B2 program, but can’t renege on his campaign promise to re-start the B1 program and so we get two bombers built for the same mission.
I know the B1 got built, but was it ever used in combat?
This post was edited on 6/3/22 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:42 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Why wasn’t the final mission conducted with a stealth strike at night?
Bc that doesn’t make a good movie, baw.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:48 pm to beerJeep
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Bc that doesn’t make a good movie, baw.
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.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:48 pm to lsudave1
They almost always have one at Barksdale air show. Having seen one fly over at least a half dozen times, it still amazes.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:54 pm to lsudave1
I grew up a few blocks off barksdale with b52 so was use to them and the noise… I was visiting my parents a few years back and a shadow caught my eye up in the sky.. I looked up an a b2 was taking off…it was just above me and turning as it was going up.. I have to admit.. my jaw dropped and a just stood there until it disappeared … it was something to see!
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:55 pm to lsudave1
Yes. Long time ago at an air show. It was flying waaaaaaaaay hell up there.
Posted on 6/3/22 at 4:57 pm to lsudave1
Yes. Also the one you can touch in Dayton does not have the actual coating used for stealth. If you see a real one on display they never let you close enough to touch.
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