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The Air Force’s B-2 Bomber Nightmare Has Arrived

The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit, its most formidable stealth bomber, suffers from a “stealth bomber problem”: scarcity.
A recently released accident report revealed new details about a December 2022 B-2 bomber crash landing. As a B-2 stealth bomber skidded down a Missouri runway, its left landing gear collapsed, and ...
-An investigation revealed the failure of a single hydraulic fitting on the right landing gear caused the crash. -This triggered a chain of events where a misleading safety indication led to the ...
An Air Force B-2 Spirit crash at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, in 2022 that caused upward of $300 million worth of damage was due to a landing gear issue, a new accident investigation details.
The failure of a single component in the hydraulic system led to a landing gear collapse in a US Air Force (USAF) Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber in 2022. The incident occurred at Whiteman AFB in ...
Trump’s recent off-the-cuff comments led to speculation that the US Air Force might restart production lines for the B-2 ...