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The B-2 Spirit is insane. People usually know the SR-71, but I personally think the B-2 is straight up savage - aesthetically alien, impossibly aerial, and incomprehensibly powerful. Its silhoutte is terrifying: https://i.imgur.com/WqMvxXg.jpg

What a beast: https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/air/b-2-stealth-b...

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That's while probably really effective at its job, it's not really the most of anything. The B-1B for example is faster and can carry more ordinance.

B-1B is not as stealthy. B-2 Spirit is in a different league along with the F-117.

Also I learned something new: It's not 'ordinance', but 'ordnance'[1]. Almost looks like a spelling mistake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance

Mind=blown. I have been saying this wrong for so long!

It's effective enough to have bombed the shit out of a chinese embassy in '99. Look it up.

And embassies in foreign lands are usually very well defended against bomb raids?

Large foreign capital cities usually have thick air defense "umbrellas".

Yes, which is why in this case, it was effective against the already smashed small serbian anti air capabillities. And not against chinese ones.

Every time I've seen one fly overhead I've thought that it looks like a beautiful alien spacecraft.

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