2006-09-26 13:46:10 · 10 answers · asked by tom science 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The Stealth bomber, aka The Spirit, is a flying-wing designed aircraft, capable of delivering nuclear or conventional payloads to targets anywhere in the world.
It has a shape, as well as technology, that renders the aircraft as a low-observable radar image. Its radar cross-section is roughly equivalent to a small flight of birds.
It has a payload ability of carrying 16 nuclear weapons of various types, or up to 80 conventional MK 82 bombs.
It is highly survivable, in that it can avoid detection by radar by going in between gaps of radar coverage.
2006-09-26 14:37:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
An overpriced, and now technologically useless toy. The Ukrainians have sold the world's most advanced stealth detection system to Iran, making the B-2 a joke...no more effective than decades-old B-52s.
2006-09-26 23:16:57 · answer #2 · answered by manabovetime 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A stealth bomber is a bomber that is capable of infiltrating enemy airspace literally undetectable to radar. Once it drops its payload, it is off before the faint radar signals can reach the base.
2006-09-26 21:36:44 · answer #3 · answered by palazzolojr 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's nearly invisible to radar. One reason is the way it's shaped, but I don't know anything about that, and another reason is the paint absorbs radar. Ordinarily when radar strikes a plane, it doesn't just bounce off. It turns the whole plane into a radio transmitter. I saw a couple of stealth bombers once, but security was very tight.
2006-09-26 20:58:56 · answer #4 · answered by The Bird 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
get off your *** and search for the books in the libary on the B-2 stealth Bomber AND WASTE ANY MORE TIME WITH STUPID QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-26 21:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A nearly invisible to radar jet that delivers much death and destruction to third world countries and their citizens who have no air force and a less than mediocre military altogether.
2006-09-26 20:51:48 · answer #6 · answered by SUPERMANMIKE 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Would you not like to know, it's top secret, so it's full potential is not fully known to any body but the military.!!!
2006-09-26 20:55:00 · answer #7 · answered by JAM123 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's an over-priced and under-used boondoggle.
It can make many former generals working in the miltary-industrial complex rich.
It is useless against IEDs
2006-09-26 20:50:37 · answer #8 · answered by Duque de Alba 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
You tell us, Tom Science.......
2006-09-26 21:27:01 · answer #9 · answered by JackJester 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Drop bombs, stealthily.
2006-09-26 20:49:21 · answer #10 · answered by normobrian 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋