Why Almost Nothing Can Stop a B-2 Bomber in Battle

[rangerrebew]

Why Almost Nothing Can Stop a B-2 Bomber in Battle

Conventional or nuclear, the B-2 Spirit can handle almost any precision attack mission in any environment imaginable, located at practically any point on Earth.

by Kyle Mizokami

B-2 bombers would almost certainly take part in any attack on North Korea’s nuclear program, which would almost certainly be a part of or escalate to a larger war between Pyongyang, its neighbors and the United States. While the B-1B bomber can launch cruise missile strikes against exposed targets, the B-2 would be sent after the North Korean leadership itself. The Spirit would drop Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on hardened and underground North Korean command and control system, ideally disrupting its ability to issue orders to launch missiles. Spirits would also drop MOPs on any hardened leadership facilities suspected of hiding North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and any concrete-protected nuclear storage and missile launch facilities.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-almost-nothing-can-stop-b-2-bomber-battle-30012

[Smokin Joe]

Here's the bugaboo. All accounts I have read say the YB35 and YB49 variants were scrapped long before i (repeatedly) saw them (or a plane that looked a lot like them) flying out of Andrews AFB when I was a kid in the early '60s. I recall they left soot trails in the air, too, (much like the F-4, only multiple engines), so I'm betting on jet engines.
 So someone isn't telling the whole story.