Taken on Apr. 25, 2013, the following cool picture shows three B-2 Spirit aircraft preparing for flight at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
Image credit: U.S. Air Force
The bomber, is the only aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration, including the 30,000 pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
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Just a simple question: Am I reading you correct, when you state that B-2´s flew over North Korea?
You are reading right, but I wrote it wrong. It’s obviously Korea (meant as Korean Peninsula, South Korea) as explained in the linked article.
It looks ok to me – I don’t see the word ‘North’ at all. I’m up with it.
Just a simple question: Am I reading you correct, when you state that B-2´s flew over North Korea?
You are reading right, but I wrote it wrong. It’s obviously Korea (meant as Korean Peninsula, South Korea) as explained in the linked article.
It looks ok to me – I don’t see the word ‘North’ at all. I’m up with it.