That’s what the Americans thought when they found the Horten Ho 229 back in 1945 Germany and captured it, which they used as the basis for the B2. America got lucky grabbing all that German tech and scientists. The B2 still does look amazing
I love how the pilot slowed down and flew directly over the beach so people could see that bird for a few brief moments. Very classy move by the pilot.
@@JK-td4hi That is unlikely. The B-21, which looks very much like the B-2, likely costs more if only because it is much newer, inflation, and has new, more expensive avionics aboard. And what of the even more exotic aircraft we know nothing about? The Skunk Works is always producing something few ever get to see or hear about.
I agree. I live on the Eastern area of Colorado Springs, when Air Force planes are coming into Petersen AFB on the south end of town, they will go out of their way to go fly low over the USAF Academy on the Northwest corner of the city. Makes sense to me to bring up morale of the future USAF officers.
@@danielcannon3511 так, это вы в сказки о невидимке верите. А факт остаётся фактом. F-117, который был не менее невидим, чем B-2, сбит в Югославии советским комплексом С-125. Это официально подтвержденная информация, а не пропаганда.
Nope. That’s a lot of the modern military planes. Had some F18s go overhead at a ballgame. You don’t hear them until it’s too late. I pity the fool who has to sit under those in a hostile engagement. If you hear them, the payload has already been released. Scary.
I worked on the development of that plane back in the 80’s and attended 1st flight in 1989. It was an incredible feeling to see it take to the air after years of work.
@@itstheMR Jim Kelly. He designed that Delta Wing thing back in the 50s. Wasn't really the 'original', but was yet another Lockheed Skunk Works project many decades ahead of its time.
The view when it was right overhead, it just looks like a pixelated triangle - almost like a glitch in the sky. Imagine being an enemy seeing this for the first time
A few months before it was revealed to the public, I was sitting in my front yard in rural Kansas. It was night time. I heard the sound of a low-flying jet, but didn't see any lights. However, a short time later I saw a triangular-shaped object flyover the house. The only reason I knew it was triangular is that it blotted out the stars above. My first thought was that I saw a UFO, but I figured it was probably secret military technology. A few months later, I saw a magazine article (I think it was in Popular Science) showing the first pictures of the B-2 Bomber and I felt pretty sure that is what I saw fly over my home.
My grandmother and her friend were at a lawn sale when a seagull dropped a bomb on my grandmother's hair my grandmother cusses her friend says ''oh no that's good luck''
Actually, the maddening thing is... some people were NOT staring in awe/respect. It's just a handful, but there they are, somehow interested in other things while this GIANT stealth bomber flies over them.
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm I was going to say, because considering the enormous chunk of sky it takes up it seems the least visually stealthy plane I've ever seen.
I'm old enough to remember Vulcan bombers flying from the local RAF base, this B2 is the 40-years-later jaw-dropping technical equivalent. Must have been an amazing moment to have been out at the beach and see this sci-fi-looking beauty cruise by.
They did a flyover in one of these for the Indy 500 years ago--cloudy day. I looked up and to the left from the stands and this thing was coming out of the clouds like the ship from "Independence Day." Dead silent, until it was right on top of you. Such an incredible achievement. Thank you, Mr Northrop.
@@RoadSparrow The 500 is this little race in Indianapolis. Used to be a really big deal. Biggest sporting event on earth. Then someone decided "Nah, we don't need all those CART drivers people actually recognize" and everything changed. Clawing its way back, but has a lot of strong competition--especially F1. Which also used to race there.
I remember when a B-2 came into VA Beach right over our house for the air show. Similar to this, you can't hear the jet coming, near silent, as it approached. Only after passing do you hear the engines due to it's unique propulsion design. Glad they’re on our side!
@@userbosco as Mark Twain said "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled" but I will agree that there's no god - for God's sake is a turn of phrase it's more polite than - for fu*ks sake
@@userbosco as Mark Twain said "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled" but I agree that there's no god, it's just a turn of phrase that's more polite than for f**ks sake, this is my second attempt at posting a reply, last one was deleted
Altitude of up to 50,000 ft. Cities could be leveled without anyone knowing what hit them. A magnificent,terrifyingly beautiful, and wonderously engineered vessel of death and destruction.
@@hertzwave8001 One is young, blind, and naive. The other is wise, sees ingenuity, potential, freedom, nationality, individuality, family, positivity, etc...
@@627horsepowersAmerica was actually recently listed as a backsliding democracy. Some of the things you say are slight exaggerations. We are not the freest nation on earth and we lost many freedoms due to the patriot act. European countries are generally less corrupt and provide more freedoms. They’re also far less crime riddled and the U.S. is by far the most violent developed democracy in the western world. You’re talking about a country where a school shooter can kill 50 people and it doesn’t even make headline news for more than 24 hours. We have a lot of problems and we can’t fix them when people are blindly allegiant to the status quo. America is the world’s hegemony, but it’s not the greatest by any means.
For countless millennia humans had dreamt of being able to fly by any means and to think the B2 flew for the first time in 1989, just 86 years after the first manned flight by the wright brothers in 1903. Thousands of years with nothing and then to this in 86 years. It’s a testament to what humans can achieve when we work together with a common aim despite what this was built to do.
I was working in my yard and heard a strange sound in the distance. I lived in Phoenix at the time and the ball team was in the World Series I believe. A B-2 came right at me at about the same altitude as this one and flew right over my head. I could see faint writing on panels it was so close. It went on past and was heading for the stadium for a fly-by. I'll never forget as it passed me, (watch above), turned towards the ballpark, and I swear it disappeared. It had turned and I was seeing it from behind and its profile is so slim, I visually lost it. It was just a few miles away from me, too. Watch above towards the end and you see the same thing. It's incredible design technology.
Even to this day the profile or lack there of is amazing. Great video and seeing how the beach crowd became more and more captivated by the approaching B2
I got to see this certified spaceship in person when my grandpa took me to the '05 Indianapolis airshow. The futuristic vibes from this plane will never not bring out the kid in me 🔥🔥🔥
This plane is simply amazing. You can be looking at it from a short distance. Then when it turns you can lose site of it. Cause it's design and thin profile makes it stealthy. This is a awesome aircraft !!
Memories. I flew F4 phantom’s over that beach several times. Low level. Got lots of waves from beach goers. You would be amazed at the huge numbers of sharks less than a mile from the beach.
@@Dr.Pepperdave Land on a carrier? Why would a bomber need a carrier? Stealth bomber has very very long range without one. In fact, in 2024, I can make the case carrier task forces have become obsolete.
@@2023Red If you had robots operating the equipment and your budget was endless you could most likely extend the range of fighter forces for quite a bit through in air refuels. But in a real scenario, carrier task forces are definitely not obsolete. Other than range, they provide a refuel/rearming station where pilots can be rotated and rested. At the same time they can also allow for more extensive planning than having to plan from long distances or relying on short orders from forward AWACS. Response time decreases dramatically while not needing an FOB on foreign or enemy territory. Carrier task forces also are effective through provoking or intimidating by presence alone. At the same time the US having operating bases in allied countries could cover enough ground to negate that, but planning large operations on (even though allied) foreign ground is always iffy since you don't want to sour relations to those allies.
@@BMAD_Christoph27 I agree with comments. Any FOB has limitations. Carrier groups are very powerful indeed. My obsolescence comment is forward looking not in the present. Space based weapons are coming by every first world nation and possibly exist now. Imagine LEO low yield nukes over strategic ocean locations like the Dardanelles. Or Gibraltar. Or even San Diego sub pens. Heck, even just south of Savannah Georgia. It would not take much time to launch from orbit to cover 500 km distance to target. Minutes at most. Those attacks could render a dozen carrier groups dead in the water before some admiral finishes his cup of Joe. Missiles and bombers are our offensive weapons not carriers. Now adding robotic subs and drones by the hundreds deep in the South China Sea and you have dead naval ships everywhere. In my opinion.
We get the dive bomber versions here on the Sussex South Coast. Adept at relieving unwary visitors of either ice-creams or other frozen treats without warning or even a simple "may I have a lick?" Wonderful display of nature's technology.
@@Noorthia I don't know, I haven't tried it and never thought of trying it until now LOL How does it work to test exactly? But you can clearly see and hear the "stealth" bomber in the video, the stealth bomber is probably used only for blind and deaf targets.
In the 1964 movie *Dr. Strangelove" Major T.J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) says, "Well, boys, I reckon this is it.. nuclear combat.. toe to toe with the Roosskies"..He would have loved to have been flying this amazing "WMD".
Jaw dropping: from a sliver in the distance, becomes a visitor from another world overhead, then vanishes without trying. The grandson of the SR71 (still the most beautiful, badass aircraft ever) shows its lineage well. GBA🇺🇲
Now follow that up with a pair of A10’s! Living close to Whiteman AFB were blessed to see the B2s on a regular basis, God bless the airmen and crew that keeps them flying.
Saw one fly over eastern PA near Philadelphia some years back. It was somewhat cloudy but I spotted it for a few seconds in a break between clouds. It was directly overhead and was LOUD…
This reminds me of the time I spent on a roofing crew putting a new roof on the JC Penney in Melbourne, Florida. Jets would fly over in formation practicing bombing runs. They would come screaming in ... cut the boosters and go practically silent for about 30 seconds ... then kick in the afterburners and haul ass out. It never stopped being just about the coolest damn thing ever.
That was actually a recruiting for the Air Force idea. Trust me, it works for the army as well. The first time I saw a Blackhawk helicopter Fly over the top of our high school I knew that’s what I wanted to do. Of course I ended up being a 19 Kilo. 1 year later I’m in Iraq.
Saw one once, flew over Soldiers Field in Chicago in honor of Veterans it did a fly over the stadium and then silently disappearing over Lake Michigan , a powerful and frightening piece of engineering.
@@stormyone My father (retired USAF pilot) and I both worked at the B-2 Division. When he retired from Northrop in 1989, he got to spend 1 hour in the full motion B-2 simulator. He graciously let me have 10 minutes at the controls. Amazing aircraft!
Spent 10 years in the Navy. Saw every a/c we had in our arsenal. I saw a U2 on a radar scope at 83k feet. I only saw a B-2 once. It was awesome. It was 500 feet over the ocean on a simulated bombing run over San Clemente Island. Extremely cool and checked off the last plane I wanted to see. No I never saw the U2 in person. I also didn't get to see a SR-71.
Anti military people really piss me off. For all you non military folk....listen up....if it was for the US Military, your asses wouldn't be free. We fought, lost friends in battle, went through hell and back to provide you that freedom....so next time you see a veteran, shut the hell up and thank him/her for their service....
Love that jet noise as it flies over - ‘Immmm woooooorrrrrthhhhhh thhhhhhhhiiiirrrrrrteeeeeeeen biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliiiiiiiooooooonnnn dooooooooollllllllllllllllaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrssssss’
Seeing this thing in black like this makes you appreciate how utterly terrifying it would be to be on the ground with this thing unleashing its payload in anger during the night.
It’s been around for decades but still looks like something from the future 🤯
That is exactly well said
So too the SR-71, when you adjust for age.
That’s what the Americans thought when they found the Horten Ho 229 back in 1945 Germany and captured it, which they used as the basis for the B2. America got lucky grabbing all that German tech and scientists.
The B2 still does look amazing
UFO tech
@@krisius1 this claim has been rebutted time and again. The B2 basis is found in the xb35 and yb49. Both of which are American designs.
What a terrifyingly beautiful plane
I think the same thing when i see an a10 warthog
It's when you don't see it is when you gotta be scared
fEaRfUlLy AnD wOnDeRfUlLy MaDe
Why terrifying?
Yes. Indeed
I love how the pilot slowed down and flew directly over the beach so people could see that bird for a few brief moments. Very classy move by the pilot.
They paid for it and the rest of them. Why not slow down and show what they paid for?
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pmGood point lol..most expensive plane in existence today
@@JK-td4hi That is unlikely. The B-21, which looks very much like the B-2, likely costs more if only because it is much newer, inflation, and has new, more expensive avionics aboard. And what of the even more exotic aircraft we know nothing about? The Skunk Works is always producing something few ever get to see or hear about.
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm Not true, the B-21 is being built to be a SMALLER and CHEAPER version.
I agree. I live on the Eastern area of Colorado Springs, when Air Force planes are coming into Petersen AFB on the south end of town, they will go out of their way to go fly low over the USAF Academy on the Northwest corner of the city. Makes sense to me to bring up morale of the future USAF officers.
The enemy would never suspect a stealth bomber that looks exactly like a seagull.
Прям-таки)) даже устаревший С-125 (Нева) их видит и сбивает.
@@red_star1 propaganda spotted
Yep, thought the gull was going to collide right with it for a sec there
@@danielcannon3511 так, это вы в сказки о невидимке верите. А факт остаётся фактом. F-117, который был не менее невидим, чем B-2, сбит в Югославии советским комплексом С-125. Это официально подтвержденная информация, а не пропаганда.
@@red_star1 it’s literally never been shot down lmao
I love that you can't hear it until it gets nearly directly over your head.
Yeah, was unexpected. Maybe something to do with its famous engines.
Nope. That’s a lot of the modern military planes. Had some F18s go overhead at a ballgame. You don’t hear them until it’s too late. I pity the fool who has to sit under those in a hostile engagement. If you hear them, the payload has already been released. Scary.
The Avro Vulcan was the same - designed for silent approach below radar.
What did you say?
@iambecomepaul yes, but thats due to high speed. This plane does it at all speeds....
I worked on the development of that plane back in the 80’s and attended 1st flight in 1989. It was an incredible feeling to see it take to the air after years of work.
Wow, Thank you for your service.
I read the original designer from the 50s also got to see it before he passed?
Me too
😂😂😂
@@itstheMR Jim Kelly. He designed that Delta Wing thing back in the 50s. Wasn't really the 'original', but was yet another Lockheed Skunk Works project many decades ahead of its time.
I will never get over the uncanny valley feeling of seeing that shape moving through the sky.
The view when it was right overhead, it just looks like a pixelated triangle - almost like a glitch in the sky. Imagine being an enemy seeing this for the first time
A few months before it was revealed to the public, I was sitting in my front yard in rural Kansas. It was night time. I heard the sound of a low-flying jet, but didn't see any lights. However, a short time later I saw a triangular-shaped object flyover the house. The only reason I knew it was triangular is that it blotted out the stars above. My first thought was that I saw a UFO, but I figured it was probably secret military technology. A few months later, I saw a magazine article (I think it was in Popular Science) showing the first pictures of the B-2 Bomber and I felt pretty sure that is what I saw fly over my home.
It’s super weird. It doesn’t seem like it should be able to fly
Strange. My comment was removed. I guess KC or YT didn't like what I said.
Or a C-5 seemingly not moving.
Nature's stealth bombers were flying too.
My grandmother and her friend were at a lawn sale when a seagull dropped a bomb on my grandmother's hair my grandmother cusses her friend says ''oh no that's good luck''
Yeah a bird shit in my mouth when I was walking to my car in the parking lot at the grocery store a year ago.
Fucking birds
@@Chesticklesthats not good luck. Birds are shitting on me all the time.
@@Disruptor23 Oh your gonna have good luck big time!
literally the whole beach stood still and simply stared in awe and respect…what a machine!!!
Actually, the maddening thing is... some people were NOT staring in awe/respect. It's just a handful, but there they are, somehow interested in other things while this GIANT stealth bomber flies over them.
@@TheVengewell it is a stealth bomber, so maybe they didn’t see it
2 billion dollars worth device
I didn’t see anyone standing still lol
They were waiting to see if it was going to drop any bombs on them.
A monstrous engineering masterpiece. A machine with one purpose. A man-made angel of death.
Reply to me if you are as old as a fossil
@@themasterbanana3138 What? English please
german engineering
well said
I Believe it's with 2 !
I can see it plain as day, I guess the pilot forgot to put it in stealth mode.
Stealth mode is radar and heat source only
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pmNo shit!
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm There's always one 😂
Nah, he just wanted them to see what their tax dollars paid for.
@@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm I was going to say, because considering the enormous chunk of sky it takes up it seems the least visually stealthy plane I've ever seen.
"Hey Timmy, ever wonder what a Billion dollars looks like? Look up."
2 billi .... before inflation inflation :))
2 billion dollars in 1990. With today's inflation its $4.7 billion per plane.
Damn all those billions I haven't even seen what a billion is made off
Alien technology
who would have thought affordable healthcare, free education and paid parental leave could look so majestic flying over a beach.
"If you can see me is already too late" ☠️
More like "If you can see it, you're not the target" 😂
Easy to see
If u can see it u already dead
F-117 в Югославии тоже так думал, пока не прилетело от С-125))
@@red_star1Yet they lost the war. Thankfully
It's like watching a beautiful Tetris piece flying in the air.
Same thought. Lol
I'm old enough to remember Vulcan bombers flying from the local RAF base, this B2 is the 40-years-later jaw-dropping technical equivalent. Must have been an amazing moment to have been out at the beach and see this sci-fi-looking beauty cruise by.
Also not noisy by a jet standard. If it were flying few miles high, no one would hear it.
The Vulcan was a stunning bit of kit that still looks modern today. Quite possibly Avro's crowning moment and the RAF's most beautiful plane.
They did a flyover in one of these for the Indy 500 years ago--cloudy day. I looked up and to the left from the stands and this thing was coming out of the clouds like the ship from "Independence Day." Dead silent, until it was right on top of you. Such an incredible achievement. Thank you, Mr Northrop.
500 years ago? No way!
@@RoadSparrow The 500 is this little race in Indianapolis. Used to be a really big deal. Biggest sporting event on earth. Then someone decided "Nah, we don't need all those CART drivers people actually recognize" and everything changed. Clawing its way back, but has a lot of strong competition--especially F1. Which also used to race there.
@@danielvandersall6756 He was joking because the way you wrote it makes the "Indy 500 - years ago" look like "Indy - 500 years ago"
@@BMAD_Christoph27 Hey, don't out me as a vampire now... 😁
@@danielvandersall6756 The Indy 500 has never been the biggest sporting event on Earth.
I remember when a B-2 came into VA Beach right over our house for the air show. Similar to this, you can't hear the jet coming, near silent, as it approached. Only after passing do you hear the engines due to it's unique propulsion design. Glad they’re on our side!
Look around you for God's sake - they're sure as hell not on "our side"
@@douglasjones2955 oof CT spotted
@@douglasjones2955 well it’s clear you are not on our side. By the way, there is no God.
@@userbosco as Mark Twain said "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled" but I will agree that there's no god - for God's sake is a turn of phrase it's more polite than - for fu*ks sake
@@userbosco as Mark Twain said "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled" but I agree that there's no god, it's just a turn of phrase that's more polite than for f**ks sake, this is my second attempt at posting a reply, last one was deleted
How many times has this baby been the reason for ‘ufo sightings’ back in the day 😅
Some drunk dude driving back home in his pickup on a dark dusty road when this thing flies over and Jimmy-Bob has his life altering moment 😂😂👽🛸
@@wayne4797 I was thinking exactly the same. Specially considering how slow and low altitude it can fly (comparing to "regular" planes)
@@FelipeKana1*especially*
Altitude of up to 50,000 ft. Cities could be leveled without anyone knowing what hit them. A magnificent,terrifyingly beautiful, and wonderously engineered vessel of death and destruction.
I think they could take a wild guess...
child: is that a UFO?
parent: no, that is USA.
whats the difference
@@hertzwave8001 One is young, blind, and naive.
The other is wise, sees ingenuity, potential, freedom, nationality, individuality, family, positivity, etc...
No it's not a ufo but it is alien technology!
@@627horsepowers freedome lol
@@627horsepowersAmerica was actually recently listed as a backsliding democracy. Some of the things you say are slight exaggerations. We are not the freest nation on earth and we lost many freedoms due to the patriot act. European countries are generally less corrupt and provide more freedoms. They’re also far less crime riddled and the U.S. is by far the most violent developed democracy in the western world. You’re talking about a country where a school shooter can kill 50 people and it doesn’t even make headline news for more than 24 hours. We have a lot of problems and we can’t fix them when people are blindly allegiant to the status quo. America is the world’s hegemony, but it’s not the greatest by any means.
I am very impressed that there are people who know how to build and maintain this kind of aircraft.
For countless millennia humans had dreamt of being able to fly by any means and to think the B2 flew for the first time in 1989, just 86 years after the first manned flight by the wright brothers in 1903. Thousands of years with nothing and then to this in 86 years. It’s a testament to what humans can achieve when we work together with a common aim despite what this was built to do.
Not "generic humans", buddy. It has always been Us White Men conquering mountains, oceans, the air, mathematics, space flight, computers - everything.
@@patrickshaw8595 wright ( White) brothers in 1903, 66 years later on the Moon. Incredible.
I've decided I don't believe in airplanes.
They don't even flap their wings!
Maybe in a few hundred years we will build an Enterprise..
@@jamesellis4664 Sooner. And it will be an AMERICAN spacecraft.
The most beautiful and terrifying object man has ever designed....
🤨Hmmm, 🧐 Are people forgetting Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, his brainchild that IS the atomic bomb, aka, the Manhattan project??🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Nazi Germany was working on a flying wing in the 1940s...
Where do you think we got the concept from?
I would say the most terrifying object man has ever designed is an ICBM with multiple warheads. It's much faster and nearly impossible to stop.
@@OpenGL4ever ... but not beautiful....
He’s talking about my wife
Stealth bomber victims be like:
"Why didn't i hear boss music???"
No they're not.
- - - - Joke - - - >
@@scarygary-qq1pj
So much for all that so-called "stealth technology"
I can see it right there!
You are funny! 😂
And here I was flying a powered parachute , then to see this .
The different versions off flight is outstanding
Saw one here in Texas years ago at an air show....reminded me of something Batman would have flown..lol....was quite a treat to see though...
Incredible looking machine, looks from another galaxy for sure.
Seagulls are thinking what is that?!
I was working in my yard and heard a strange sound in the distance. I lived in Phoenix at the time and the ball team was in the World Series I believe. A B-2 came right at me at about the same altitude as this one and flew right over my head. I could see faint writing on panels it was so close. It went on past and was heading for the stadium for a fly-by.
I'll never forget as it passed me, (watch above), turned towards the ballpark, and I swear it disappeared. It had turned and I was seeing it from behind and its profile is so slim, I visually lost it. It was just a few miles away from me, too.
Watch above towards the end and you see the same thing. It's incredible design technology.
The whole beach just stopped and watched. Amazing machine.
Just amazing. It’s quite an old aircraft, imagine what they have now with the stellar advances in tech.
i wonder what are the latest, most new and high-end stealth planes? can someone name me a couple? thanks!
@@dizzydaysf22
@@dizzydays For the US? F22, F35, F117, B2 and B21
macroscopic quantum tunneling
@@dizzydaysthe b21 is replacing this
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Even to this day the profile or lack there of is amazing. Great video and seeing how the beach crowd became more and more captivated by the approaching B2
Those guys in the plane protect us day and night. Salute!😊
👍🙂
Protect us from who?
@@xianshep aliens? thats the best answer I got. 🤷♂
^ Or perhaps jurgenkruger3932 is a billionaire.
God is Love - 1 John
Iconic. Brutal. Terrifying.
I got to see this certified spaceship in person when my grandpa took me to the '05 Indianapolis airshow. The futuristic vibes from this plane will never not bring out the kid in me 🔥🔥🔥
This plane is simply amazing. You can be looking at it from a short distance. Then when it turns you can lose site of it. Cause it's design and thin profile makes it stealthy. This is a awesome aircraft !!
Memories. I flew F4 phantom’s over that beach several times. Low level. Got lots of waves from beach goers. You would be amazed at the huge numbers of sharks less than a mile from the beach.
But the Stelth can't land on a Carrier...
@@Dr.Pepperdave Land on a carrier? Why would a bomber need a carrier? Stealth bomber has very very long range without one. In fact, in 2024, I can make the case carrier task forces have become obsolete.
I was wondering if they saw sharks. I always do from Hotel balcony. Flips me out.
@@2023Red If you had robots operating the equipment and your budget was endless you could most likely extend the range of fighter forces for quite a bit through in air refuels. But in a real scenario, carrier task forces are definitely not obsolete. Other than range, they provide a refuel/rearming station where pilots can be rotated and rested. At the same time they can also allow for more extensive planning than having to plan from long distances or relying on short orders from forward AWACS. Response time decreases dramatically while not needing an FOB on foreign or enemy territory. Carrier task forces also are effective through provoking or intimidating by presence alone.
At the same time the US having operating bases in allied countries could cover enough ground to negate that, but planning large operations on (even though allied) foreign ground is always iffy since you don't want to sour relations to those allies.
@@BMAD_Christoph27 I agree with comments. Any FOB has limitations. Carrier groups are very powerful indeed. My obsolescence comment is forward looking not in the present. Space based weapons are coming by every first world nation and possibly exist now. Imagine LEO low yield nukes over strategic ocean locations like the Dardanelles. Or Gibraltar. Or even San Diego sub pens. Heck, even just south of Savannah Georgia. It would not take much time to launch from orbit to cover 500 km distance to target. Minutes at most. Those attacks could render a dozen carrier groups dead in the water before some admiral finishes his cup of Joe. Missiles and bombers are our offensive weapons not carriers. Now adding robotic subs and drones by the hundreds deep in the South China Sea and you have dead naval ships everywhere. In my opinion.
We get the dive bomber versions here on the Sussex South Coast. Adept at relieving unwary visitors of either ice-creams or other frozen treats without warning or even a simple "may I have a lick?" Wonderful display of nature's technology.
I’ve always liked how they looked compared to other jets. Like little sky stingrays
A Stealth Bomber that isnt stealth, this is the amurican logic I love 🤣
Do your eyes have air defense radars? I thought not.
@@Noorthia I don't know, I haven't tried it and never thought of trying it until now LOL How does it work to test exactly?
But you can clearly see and hear the "stealth" bomber in the video, the stealth bomber is probably used only for blind and deaf targets.
@@GameZone-us9vv Show me an air defense system that guides missiles with optical targeting or sound.
@@Noorthia First things first. Lets talk about these "Eyes Air Defense Radars" you talked about. One step before another.
bruh 😶🌫 soo true.. evry drone is more stealt dan tis ugly mofuck 😅
When the Spirit moves you ❤
Awesome!! ❤ Thanks for sharing!
Seriously one of the coolest aircrafts ever manufactured
You know you F’d up when that comes rolling through
Nah you will never see it coming...
@@stojo33saw it coming on this video
@@thepostofficeprince8819 Nobody F'd up there, if they were dropping bombs they would have been at 30,000 feet altitude.
You would never see it because it would be at altitude.
@@thepostofficeprince8819 because killing the people on the ground was not the plan
Those are so flipping amazing
One of the most incredible images ever, the power, the magic of that machine protecting the free world.
One of my favorite jets ever🔥...looks like a phantom in the sky✨
Looking real good AF.
This is so intimidating im ngl lmaooo
Just BEAUTIFUL...Thanks for this...!!!
Great vid, thanks for posting.
1:03 the international hand sign for “I’ll phone you”
In the 1964 movie *Dr. Strangelove" Major T.J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) says,
"Well, boys, I reckon this is it.. nuclear combat.. toe to toe with the Roosskies"..He would have loved to have been flying this amazing "WMD".
Jaw dropping:
from a sliver in the distance, becomes a visitor from another world overhead, then vanishes without trying. The grandson of the SR71 (still the most beautiful, badass aircraft ever) shows its lineage well. GBA🇺🇲
Now follow that up with a pair of A10’s! Living close to Whiteman AFB were blessed to see the B2s on a regular basis, God bless the airmen and crew that keeps them flying.
Those seagulls were thinking,did you get a load of the big Bird!!!?😮, what do you suppose they feed that thing?!😅😊❤
Even the seagulls stop to look!
That was stunning thanks!
Looks like just the size of flying birds. This plane is really invisble on dark and moonless nights.
Ever notice how you don’t hear it until it’s above you?
What was that sound??? That was the sound of freedom my friend!
Hell yeah!
Jawohl mein fuhrer.
RAAAAAAHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@themominator4745daft yank
It’s 2024 & I think even in 2124 that will look like the future. Incredible.
Saw one fly over eastern PA near Philadelphia some years back. It was somewhat cloudy but I spotted it for a few seconds in a break between clouds. It was directly overhead and was LOUD…
Sounds very quiet.
Yeah sounds like you can barely hear it until it's already on top of you
That’s one expensive work vehicle
Sure would have loved to see it in person. Incredible plane!
This reminds me of the time I spent on a roofing crew putting a new roof on the JC Penney in Melbourne, Florida. Jets would fly over in formation practicing bombing runs. They would come screaming in ... cut the boosters and go practically silent for about 30 seconds ... then kick in the afterburners and haul ass out. It never stopped being just about the coolest damn thing ever.
Most people didn't even react - that's how stealthy it is! ;-P
No it isn't.
What an alien aircraft
That was actually a recruiting for the Air Force idea.
Trust me, it works for the army as well. The first time I saw a Blackhawk helicopter Fly over the top of our high school I knew that’s what I wanted to do.
Of course I ended up being a 19 Kilo.
1 year later I’m in Iraq.
I was a part of the design team that developed toilets in one of the airbases where this beauty was landing.
Saw one once, flew over Soldiers Field in Chicago in honor of Veterans it did a fly over the stadium and then silently disappearing over Lake Michigan , a powerful and frightening piece of engineering.
A beautiful airplane, a war engineering marvel flying and protecting people taking a peaceful bath.
No it isn't.
Nice but missing that vulcan roar😊
This is one of the few times you can say that's a very beautiful Bird and not get defeather...yours very truly Alfonso Cantu USMC
So cool!
Outstanding
Driving from Kansas City to Topeka on I70, there was this B2 following me all the way
That seagull was like, F*ck off, these are my French fries!
Gentle reminder of "This is what your freedom to do what your doing looks like".
Be the same under any 'regime' buddy. Land of the free, can you live without money? If you have to pay to live there it isn't 'freedom'.
@@Altair885 Ain't that the truth!
Hi, as a private pilot, I would love to fly this machine for one hour!!!!!!!!!
As a retired airline pilot, I’d love to fly it for one minute!
@@stormyone My father (retired USAF pilot) and I both worked at the B-2 Division. When he retired from Northrop in 1989, he got to spend 1 hour in the full motion B-2 simulator. He graciously let me have 10 minutes at the controls. Amazing aircraft!
Spent 10 years in the Navy. Saw every a/c we had in our arsenal. I saw a U2 on a radar scope at 83k feet. I only saw a B-2 once. It was awesome. It was 500 feet over the ocean on a simulated bombing run over San Clemente Island. Extremely cool and checked off the last plane I wanted to see. No I never saw the U2 in person. I also didn't get to see a SR-71.
I also worked on the development of that plane back when Reagan was in office. It was truly an honor
[queue the amarica fuck yeah song]
The cost of that jet could supply healthcare for all those people for their entire lives.
Stop writing bullcrap.
Who will protect and fight for them? You?
Anti military people really piss me off. For all you non military folk....listen up....if it was for the US Military, your asses wouldn't be free. We fought, lost friends in battle, went through hell and back to provide you that freedom....so next time you see a veteran, shut the hell up and thank him/her for their service....
Without those jets, all those people would have much more to worry about than healthcare.
@@Taid44 Which one plans to invade? Canada or Mexico? Because they are the only two who can...
I've never seen one flying. Thanks for posting.
Usually they don't. Every one flight hour equals twelve hours for repairs 😂
Jack Northrop, what a marvel your vision made! Still the pinnacle of strategic deterrence.
TRASH PLANE FOR SUCKERS
You can't even hear it till it's too late Merica
A UFO is finally erasing Miami from the Florida map.. Lol.
No. Not my phins
I was program manager on the flight control and was in the airplane in 1989 in Palmdale. Northrop. Glad we haven't used it ... yet.
The coolest thing a human will ever see
The look and sound of FREEDOM!
You mean war!
looks so alien
Love that jet noise as it flies over - ‘Immmm woooooorrrrrthhhhhh thhhhhhhhiiiirrrrrrteeeeeeeen biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliiiiiiiooooooonnnn dooooooooollllllllllllllllaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrssssss’
Seeing this thing in black like this makes you appreciate how utterly terrifying it would be to be on the ground with this thing unleashing its payload in anger during the night.
God Bless America!
What for? Stealing a german invention?
God bless America 💪🇺🇲🇺🇲
....for stealing a german invention?
When I saw one go over VA Tech stadium you didn't hear any engine noise til he was about a mile away and climbing.