I remember when the B2 and the F117 first came out and they were so strange compared to anything that came before them. I can’t believe how long ago that all was!
Talk about feeling old. I remember the F-117 becoming public knowledge. They didn't even announce it until people on both sides of the Gulf War and Desert Storm brought the F117 to the public's eye. So many UFO sightings from the 70's and up.
Same with the NGAD. Maybe the DoD finally got its shit together. We also don't see the MIC having anywhere near much control and clout as it used too(2000s and 2010s). Maybe that has something to do with it.
this is a "secret project" so i wouldnt be surprised that they have been pouring money on this project since the B2 rolled out and they just kept it a secret/ofuscated so we wont hate on the project.
I was flying to LA from the east coast 20 years ago. The pilot suggested that passengers on the left side of the plane should look above our plane. We were directly below a B2 on the same course. The second coolest thing I've ever seen from a jet liner. Number one was a space shuttle launch.
It's just hard to get the hornies over our military tech when we're killing Russians trying to save Ukraine's OWN CITIZENS from NAZIS!! Not because the Donbass, LPR, DPR, etc WANTED something other than to be LEFT ALONE ... (you know, like how Slovenia and Czech could just "vote their way out" ... ) But because the NAZIS in Keiv insisted they LIKE THE coup we finally succeeded at ... A coup that's _UTTERLY IRREFUTABLE_ ... has the exact consequence our current CIA director SAID it would have ... in his 2008 letter to Condoleezza Rice (Bush Admin) no matter WHO was the Pres. of Russia ... We're the nation that REFUSES to honestly state what our enemies problems with us are. Which is the FIRST STEP to resolving any problem. - Iraq had WMDs - Saddam ASKED US if he could invade Kuwait months before doing it. - Ritter TOLD US AND THE MEDIA, there ARE NO WMDs in Iraq. - There was no "ARAB SPRING" ... there were just CIA + and George Soros Coups (but I'm sure the CIA had NOTHING to do with the "summer of love." - There were no "COLOR REVOLUTIONS" ... the "Orange, Rose, etc., .... - There were just COUP D'ETATS, funded by the US. We succeeded pulling it off after we lied and sold the BS that Milosevic was a war criminal. (bullshit). Then replicated it while everyone was focused on Iraq ... after Putin let us use THEIR BASE to start bombing Afghanistan. We tried Ukraine in '04 & pretended "Russians just can't figure how to poison someone" after Yanukovych ALREADY WON!!! We then tried it in Belarus, and though he's a dictator, history tells us we'd install an even worse dictator. Then succeeded in Georgia, but that "totally peaceful, this is democracy" POS -Saakashvili- Sucksadiki had to flea bc the US hadn't first corrupted the parliament. Thus, when we did the 2nd coup in Ukraine, we already had over half of parliament on our payroll. Did you know that in addition to all the other money, YOU are paying the wages of their NAZI troops? At $5B every month, for over a year? Did you know we've been conducting "joint exercises with the Putsch Regime" in Keiv since 2015..? Listen to Mearsheimer's lecture to a group of IR PhDs and Professors ... and notice the question / statement not ONE asks: "Are you SURE we conducted a coup d'etat?" Or "I don't believe we committed a coup d'etat." They OUTLAWED THEIR LANGUAGE. And used their MILITARY to bomb them. NO ONE from the Donbass drove to Keiv to attack them. ALL deaths between armed belligerents in Ukraine between 2014-2022 ... required people TRAVEL to where people lived, and BOMB THEM / use ARTILLERY ... on CIVILIAN POPULATIONS. Then, two NATO members brokered a deal: France and Germany brokered the AUTONOMY of the Donbass between Keiv and the Donbass. Kiev never honored it. All they had to do was go home; they never did. And to this day, they shell RESIDENTIAL AREAS DEVOID of military value. Some of the most absurd lies told?? - Russia SHOOTS AT ITSELF ... while inside a nuclear reactor it controlled since MARCH. - Russia used a US HIMARS to target its own Military Personnel and Ukrainian NAZIS-POWs. - Russia blew up a pair of Pipelines (Nord Stream) that Germany BEGGED THEM to build right after Germans protested in SUPPORT OF RUSSIA: (CODE for, "WE NEED GAS PLEASE. Better still? That last lie was peddled by the SAME peddler who spells vilify "villify" ... in the declassified notes / words of Brennan documenting the lie Hillary made of Brennan in June 2016: Villify Trump claiming Russian FSB helping Trump to _DISTRACT FROM EMAILS_ ... and, in Oct 2020, proffered the "50 current & former intelligence officers called Hunter Biden's OWN LAPTOP ..... "Russian Disinformation." ). Disinfo Brennan put out via the VERY SAME channels who had to admit that his previous disinformation were lies also ... without ever mentioning the context of ANY statement by that charlaiton. I'd rather be VULNERABLE with a WEAK MILITARY then engage in this DEBAUCHERY, & morally BANKRUPT conduct. I served in the Marine Corps. Give other Marines the evidence, then, ask other Marines presented with the facts how they'd feel about going to war on another LIE. CIA got Obama's speech writer to slide a phrase before he anticipated their moves... Having called Chemical Weapons a "Red Line" they could FORCE Obama (via their media mouth pieces) into Syria. They forced the UN inspectors to LIE & pretend it was Syria who'd "crossed that red line." *Search: Seymour Hersh Chemical Lie* th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=Seymour+Hersh+Chemical+Lie Or explain how destroying a 3rd world nation (LIBYA'S) CIVILIAN access to RUNNING WATER helped the "moderate extremists" ..? Or how NATO is a defensive alliance when it attacked Libya? Or Serbia? Or why our CIA funded "moderates" were fighting the DIA funded moderates in Syria??? Once you understand that shit ... you'll see why the morality of pilots and officers can't protect us from immoral (evil) behavior.
@@Charles-pf7zy This popped up in my recommended feed awhile ago, sounds like you'd like it (it's a view of a space shuttle launch from an airliner). th-cam.com/video/O1SmCnElDa0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/GE_USPTmYXM/w-d-xo.html
I love the fact that the wave of triangular UFO sighting things in the 70's and 80's suddenly made a whole lot more sense when the B-2 and F-117 we're revealed finally.
@@lexwaldez only thing is, who is it from? IF it's the US's, then they're denying it for classified reasons, but if its China or Russia or some hidden/lesser known adversaries's technology, then the US might be fucked cuz that "Tic-Tac" aircraft broke many laws of physics and could wipe out many new-gen fighter jets.
Triangle UFOs were seen Hovering in the Famous 1990 Belgian wave of them (Google It), B2 and F117 do not Hover at all yet the Black Triangle UFOs do. The Phoenix Lights was not a B2 or F117 as reported by the 1000s of people that watched it.
Saw a B2 in the sky back in like 1993 or 5 as a kid on Sunday morning driving into church. Freaked us all out and we pulled over to see what this crazy box in the sky was. Finally realized it was a plane, read in the paper the following morning that it was a B2 that had flown through the local AF base.
It's even cooler that they weren't really showing top down views of the plane during the rollout. Unless I missed it somewhere it was all from +-30° off the nose. Even the shadow on the ground was obscured.
This time Northrop Grumman opens the hanger, the tow vehicle pulls out, there appears to be nothing behind it or in the hanger, the general says "There she is folks."
I wish my dad was still here to see this. He was a Deputy Commander of Maintenance in Guam when they transitioned to the B52 from the B47 that he flew. Before he left the Air Force after 33 years he was in charge of writing the book on how to perform maintenance for the B52. This aircraft is just crazy cool.
My father was a Project Manager for the B-2 Bomber project...I think, maybe he didn't make PM until J-Star. He died back in 2001 but I'm watching this for you Dad! I can only imagine how pumped you would've been about this!
Hi Eric, did your father ever disclose anything or say anything regarding the alledged electrogravitic flight mode / technology alleged to be on some / all of the b2`s? as per the well known aviation weekly interview / article with one of the b2 pilots?
As an unrepentant geek on the subject of stealth, the B-21 Raider will be a significant change in the power projection of US. The leverage of tech and the incredible security to guard its' latest capability is amazing. Outstanding job Brother Alex. One of these days you need to look at race to stealth, how we are cruising at the spot we are now. I contend the NGAD system of systems will have a very Raider like component in its' array. One sad note, the B-1 deserves better credit than it receives in terms of capability and what it has delivered.
The B-1 has always been the sexiest plane. I almost got a ride in a B-1 while at an exercise. I was aircrew, but I didn’t have ejection seat training. Sad, sad, day for me. lol
Correct. It's an all-new type of weapons platform, not just a regular replacement for the B-1. It's going to bomb a whole new way. Just like the NGAD won't be a regular aircraft. It will be a whole new system for rapidly making and upgrading aircraft, more like the leap to interchangeable parts. Then if some new weapon or whatever becomes available, the NGAD system should be able to incorporate that into aircraft design and 6 months later the new planes are being produced. Procurement has gotten insanely expensive and takes years and years. The NGAD will shave years off the procurement time, thereby reducing cost significantly. At least that's what they're saying. That way you don't need to buy 500 F-22 aircraft to keep the cost low, then keep cutting back to save money, and end up with 100 or so that might be obsolete or worn out by the time they enter service. You can witness the war in Ukraine, figure out the main capability gap, add that to the design, and real fast make 10 of them for a comparatively low cost.
Frankly, I think most of them will be destroyed on the ground in a real war. Unless you hide them and have a lot of decoys. Well it’s no good if it can’t get off the ground in three minutes. To tell you the truth, these are dinosaurs. Unmanned is the future. With people on board is a disaster. Pilots are the weakest link, by far. I know, I’m a pilot.
It’s crazy how the US managed to put out 2 different stealth bombers before its allies and enemies alike could create one. We have plenty of area to improve, but somewhere we won’t be beat for a while is the air. Edit: It’s done. The b21 has been revealed. On budget and on time.
@@Appletank8 That’s just a description of what quality is, but it can only have the impact permitted by its sortie rate: numbers, endurance & maintainability.
I'm glad Jack Northrop's legacy still shines today despite his flying wing projects failing A year before Northrop died to old age, he was shown blueprints and a scale model of the B-2 Spirit. Northrop reportedly teared up and whispered "now I realize why God kept me alive for so long"
I have seen a program on History channel or similar channel. They said the showed Jack the B-2 mock-up before the B-2 was public. He supposedly had a tear in his eyes. His most ambitious project finally was to be completed.
@@tammywehner3269 Jack Northrop had ideas for flying wings separate from the Horten brothers. His XP-56 was built completely independent of Horten designs or inspiration. The "Horten inspired Northrop" is a myth spread by Wehraboos.
Nice to know that just prior to his death, Jack Northrop was informed of the B-2 program, given its very classified top secret status. The emotion and delayed gratification he must have felt knowing his life long passion and legacy would live on had to be incredibly redeeming, satisfying and heartwarming all at the same time. And just a little tidbit: Russia never had, or invested in the super computer technology needed to calculate the rcs of a planes surface area from every angle. Therfore, they saw no value in Ufimtsev's work and allowed him to publish his findings.
@@SCIFIguy64 maybe they did, maybe they didn't. There's a bunch of factors involved. - people tend to claim they don't need something which is hard for them to attain - dictatorships/totalitarian states trend to micromanage everything including science, with poor results - people are promoted to key positions (including in science and military) on the basis of political and personal loyalty, not achievement, which generally reduces capability - even a loyal leader, if too capable, is in danger of replacement as he (a) poses danger to his superiors and/or the dictator, as well as to his peers, so he often is removed, often with extreme prejudice - smart people tend to leave such countries if possible, or not to "stick out" for above reasons and for lack of compensation as it tends to be unfair - science tends to stagnate without international communication - same for manufacturing - people and enterprises fear that their property may be taken from them by the state or corrupt officials so do not drive for achievement, particularly that which is capex-intensive as most advanced tech is The list goes on.
It's not just stealth getting 30 years of development since the B-2. It's also aircraft engines, composite materials, computer processing power for avionics, communications, etc etc
I am really curious how much actual advancement there is in avionics, because already the B2 has some pretty advanced avionics in there. Unsure if carbon composites will end up being used in the B21, but that's one area that's definitely seen lots of development and widespread adoption. Combine that with improvements in engines and I wouldn't be surprised to see the B21 with a meaningfully longer operating range.
@@reaganharder1480 many people don't realize that the B2 along with other stealth aircraft are regularly being upgraded. Obviously the B2's shape and radar absorbent material coating the aircraft play a significant part in it being stealth. However, given the most technological advancements in its computing abilities, the B2 still remains second to none. It's no longer just its shape and coating that keeps it stealthy, but also utilizes resources simultaneously from satelites, air resources, land resources, and sea resources. All of those resources work together simultaneously in a coordinated effort to ensure the B2's stealthy effectiveness.
@@mauriceclemens3286 I tried to look it up before I posted, I heard it in a video, but I couldn't be sure if it was Jack or not. So I choose to be vague 😅
I find it hard to believe you guys DON’T know about the stealthy flying wing Nazi Germany ‘Wonder Weapon’ found and confiscated by US soldiers in 1944-45, along with German engineers and scientist’s (operation paper clip) given the striking physical similarities between that bomber and the B-2 so many decades later. So far ahead of it’s time, it’s scary but impresssive, as many of the ‘Wonder Weapon’s’ of the 3rd Reich were. Today’s reality might be far different if bonehead Hitler wouldn’t have called off funding for the advanced weapons research during the middle years of WWII until the Nazi’s became more desperate for a direction-changing technology to emerge that would route the technological advancements of the Allie’s which had the benefit of extended range and resources away from the battlefield.
@@peterweller8583 even then it’ll be impossible to intercept one, Russian Air Force haven’t even intercepted atleast one B-2 let alone the B-21 and plus the B-21 not even commissioned yet. We saw how the Russian Air Force performed during your special military operation in Ukraine, It wasn’t pretty let me you.
A few years ago the Liberty Memorial in KC turned 100. Of course there were speeches and a B2 flyby but that wasn’t all. Throughout the day multiple B2’s were flitting about the city like birds. I looked up to see one flying down Universal at at 200’. I was pumping gas 100 yds away. It was breathtaking. Those guys can turn and burn too, it’s very cool to see one standing on a wingtip. The Royals/Chiefs flyby’s are fun not only at the stadiums but my neighborhood as well. It seems the plane(s) orbit the area around my house. This is because the flight time from this area to the stadium is the correct time to allow the plane to arrive for “the land of the free and the home of the brave”. So when the singer starts singing the anthem the plane leaves the orbit and passes over the drive in theater at the correct speed and altitude. Here a few years ago on the day of the Royals home opener it was quite overcast but the low clouds were opening up. I sat in the lot of a school and listened to the distinctive sound. Occasionally you would catch glimpses in the thin areas of cloud. In one view the plane came out of the cloud standing on its wing with vapor forming and disappearing over the wings. I got those chills.
I was stationed at MacDill AFB, One of the B2's landed there for a few days, I was leaving base one day on my way back home and it just happened to be taking off as I did. The size of it was massive, it's amazing to think something that large can be that stealthy.
I live near Whiteman AFB and I see/hear the Stealths fly over my house almost every week day. It's amazing because you don't hear it until you see it. And you don't see it until you hear it. It never gets old.
I got lucky to see the B-2 way back when. I was at an event just north of Baltimore at a building that doesn’t exist. I happened to look up and saw the B-2 in a turn. When she went wings level the only way to find it was by the two F-4 smokers, one off each wing. She just visually disappeared. Amazing aircraft. I can’t wait for the 21.
I got lucky enough to see one when it flew over the Super Bowl in Tampa. It was a B-1B, a B-2 and a B-52 in formation, just awesome. I still get a little chill thinking about it. th-cam.com/video/ZqODB7Vh2qQ/w-d-xo.html
As an Australian I love these new developments in stealth. As a former Radar Plot in the RAN I can certainly attest to the fidelity of lower frequency radars too. I remember the old Delta band LW02 sets… Wouldn’t it be nice if the aircraft were made available to Australia under the AUKUS agreement? We’ve previously asked the US about making the F-22 available, as has Japan, but those were declined long before the AUKUS agreement. Prior to our current fleet of F/A-18Fs we had a long history with the F-111C and G. We lack that long range strike capability now, and for a country this size we need it!
I wish you could too, but from what I hear from people who live in Australia and other previous “dream endings” for Americans, things have gone way off track there and you have a government that is basically socialist. Not that I can talk being from the USA. A famous Norwegian recently visited me, and he said that I have no idea how great I have it. He called the current US administration “communist”- his words, not mine, but that we were destroying this country faster than he ever thought possible. He said Norway is shit now. He hates it and can’t believe that Americans are voting for bureaucrats and lefties just like ruined Norway. I’m a right-wing guy and make no apologies for it. By that, I mean less government control, strong law enforcement, big military, and respect for the constitution- especially the 2A.
@@assertivekarma1909 I’ve never been drunk under the table other than by a few pommy sailors from Ark Royal in Sydney. A pint? Those blokes knew how to drink!
From what I understand of the subject, some people inside the project lobbied hard to get him a special clearance waver so he could see the, then still in production, B2 before he died... Apparently he broke down crying and and said, "now I know why God has kept me alive all these years..."
I remember seeing the B2 twice. Once at Whitman AFB (from several hundred yards away) and a fly over at an airshow. Amazing plane. I think the B21's physical appearance is a gross understatement of its capabilities. Also a sad aside.. RIP to the AMAZING Bone. One of the coolest planes ever created. I still think we need a B1"c" upgrade with all the chooch of the A, and the stealth coatings and electronics from the new toys instead of retirement.
my grandpa worked in complete secrecy on the design for some b2 wing structures/panels back in the 80's.... I wasn't born until the 90's but I've learned to have a grasp on the immense pride he had as an engineer. I've seen a b2 on the ground one time in my life and they're truly incredible.
Oh man, I remember the B2 and F117 from my childhood. I had little die cast models of them. The B21 sounds incredible. Can not wait to see those hangar doors slide open again. Those crazy engineers over at Northrop just keep knocking it out of the park. And as sad as I will be to see the Lancer go, the B21 looks awesome in the rendering. I think we also really need to give props to Northrop for their project security on this. You're right, the fact that not a single byte of information has leaked on this thing in 7 years is unprecedented. That's real steal right there.
Great info. I retired from Boeing in Palmdale and did contract work for Northrop Grumman in Palmdale as well. Worked on the B2 during its black world days. I am really excited to see what this new B21 can do and how it flyers. Here in Palmdale/Lancaster area we see B2's coming and going each month for service at the same Northrop Grumman facility. Great video and information.
When the B-2 was revealed in 1988 I was 12 years old and loved everything that had to do with aviation. Especially military aircraft. I remember how mind blowing and awesome the B-2 was. I’m 46 years old now and still have never seen a B-2 in person. I can’t imagine what the B-21 will be like but I doubt it will have the same impact on me that the B-2 had on me at 12.
My dad was in Europe at the B2's first reveal to the public outside America. It flew in silently over the runway and then roared to life, shooting straight up into the sky with the loudest noise he'd ever heard to return to base.
Hey Alex, Another great video. Have you ever thought about doing a who lost the competition and what designs were not chosen video. For example: What other designs were submitted during the B-1 program. I've never seen a video covering this subject. We all know about the YF-23 but many other ( Tried but but missed) designs stay unspoken for. Again great job and as always very informative!
In the book by Ben Rich of Skunk Works he talks about their proposal for the new stealth bomber. It was basically a scaled up version of the F117. Given that the design was proven it would have been much cheaper than the B2 to build. As luck would have it, the choice of the B2 was definitely the right one. I think we all know that if Darth Vader were to join the Air Force there is only one plane he would allow himself to be seen in.
Awesome job as usual! Thanks Alex! With the significant advances in new adaptive engines and newer Ceramic based Ram, the combat factor gets a significant boost. The newer RAM, can also tolerate something like 3000 degrees no?, so less maintenance, and for fighters, that's huge, cuz they don't have to let off the gas after 5 minutes, with No damage to RAM....we just have to wait for it...amazing stuff. All kinds of new toys coming out...we will really need them if the trends continue.
I was fortunate enough to be hired as a Systems Support Facilities Technician at the B-2 Flight Test Facility at Edwards A.F.B, CA at the beginning of the bombers lengthy flight test program. I was able to gain access the bombers flight deck to connect test cables to the aircraft during grounds tests that were conducted before any test flight. I met the pilots for every test vehicle that was stationed at the facility. My most favorite memory while I worked there was getting to talk to retired Air Force General Charles (Chuck) Yeager. It was fun working there and I left to take my life long dream job at NASA Dryden.
I remember riding across the new B-2 hangar area when it was an iron frame. There's another building basically on the lake bed we we're headed towards.
I meet Yeager at the Mojave Airport when Dick Rutan, Jenny Yeager(no relations), and Burt Rutan had the showing of the Voyager. I remember Chuck being a complete dick, a pilot....lol
Thats whats most impressive...these days. Would love to Northrup get back into commercial aviation....A bat winged commercial jet would END stick and wing planes...EFFICIENT.
Being able to tune your radar absorbent material to specific types of radar sounds like the stuff of science fiction movies to me... And it's Northrop Grumman, so you know it's going to be good.
Two generations of advanced stealth technology ahead of the B2 Spirit...yet, no leaked pictures in 7 years of development. Sounds like the stealth tech is working, folks.
That, and they don't tell you what you're building when you're building it, and they don't allow any electronics, and if you break clearance you lose it forever and go to prison. Plus they pay you good.
l am so proud to be an American Veteran in my 80's....l have seen so many changes in aircraft....Thanks Alex and just hope l live long enough to see it in Dec.......Shoe🇺🇸
I'm old enough to remember the a10 roll-out and the ah-1 cobra. This new stuff is wildly innovative, but in the end, we'll still need all we have flying today. And probably many, many more.
Went to a Chiefs football game years ago, at the end of the pre-game stuff, a B-2 flew over the stadium with 2 escorts. The B-2 flew low, like it was just above the stadium.. Thing was Hugh!!! Most awesome plane I've ever seen!!!!!!!
I rented a garage back in 95 that was near the end of the runway at the local AFB, just before dusk I heard a plane taking off I did not recognize , I ran outside tripping over everything in my way ...To see the Beautiful and awesome B-2 clearing the tree line as it raced skyward ...As I jumped up and down with excitement😄 . I hope I have the opportunity to see a B-21 someday also 😊
I grew up in Dayton Ohio right by Wright Patterson AFB.. There were all kinds of things flying around we'd never seen before. Everyone said they were alien spacecraft kept in the big hangers under the hills at the end of Patterson field..
@@kestrel2120 ,Back in 1987 when I was in the Air Force ( stationed at Minot ) ,I saw the F117 Nighthawk "that really did not take off" but I saw It anyhow . All different kinds of Aircraft landed there ,including those " Mystery - You actually DID NOT see That" Aircraft. Err, hopefully , I'm not on a "list" now for typing this 😬😬😬.
America's air force in the 22nd Century: B-91 Super Raider, the first invisible bomber, the F-72 Space Superiority Fighter, the F-75 single engine space superiority fighter, and the B-52 Stratofortress.
@@michaeltheoret3842 I am not sure if the A 10 will stay around that long. Its role as a cheap, reliable CAS has largely been displaced by gunship version of Cessna or drones. With the advancement of SAM technology and kamikaze drones, it will not be worth the risk of pilots or money
@@quakethedoombringer I think the A-10s role will change like the B-52 and will be much more of missile truck like the B-52 is, after all the thing can loiter near a battlefield for hours with 10 tonnes of missiles (eventually drones) on its racks and return home with nearly half the aircraft blown away and swish cheesed up. Rumor has it that DARPA and Raytheon are working on a standoff munitions control, kind of like a drone mothership with swarm tech where the munitions are piloted directly by the JTAC and FACs keeping the A-10 and AHs out of harm's way for the most part. So a loitering A-10 can drop a missile on an enemy in less than ten minutes (instead of waiting over an hour for the hit and get aircraft to be briefed and fly out to the trouble spot) then clean up with gun runs before being relieved on station by more A-10s.
@@anydaynow01 that's actually not a bad idea. A 10 has more weapon and fuel capacity than a Predator. The Gau 8 can (theoretically) be removed to put in sensors. So you can have a really durable "mother ship" carrying drones and missiles
I remember watching these fly around SoCal when my dad was stationed at Edwards AFB (a test base for the B2 at the time). It was neat. Always brought people out and about to a stand-still.
It was the F-117 Stealth Fighter that was just shocking. No one knew it was in the works. That was because whenever something happened that might have brought it out into the open (a crash in the Tehachapi Mts., for instance), it would be attributed to the B-2 bomber. Having the 2nd program to run interference was brilliant.
I saw B2 flying west over Illinois in 1987. Took one hell of a perfect collusion of conditions and knowing what I was looking at. Too high and slow to be anything else of its size and the air conditions were perfect.
Was out mowing the lawn about 10 years ago and a B2 flew over and slowly turned. I was staring up at it like I had just seen the starship enterprise in front of me. It was amazing.
Our property is located in an area that seems to be the turn around spot for B2 operating out of Whiteman AFB. It's pretty cool to see them make the turn above us and head back home. We see them a few times a year, when we happen to be outside as they pass by.
I remember seeing F-117s flying out of Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico for training missions. They were always accompanied by a jet trainer so their location could be tracked on radar.
True that, a slide of hand. Some of these stealth aircraft at there reveals probably slightly differ from the real ready combat-ready aircraft plus the many things these new high-tech aircraft are capable of are top secret.
I got my Security Clearance in 1981 and started testing components of the Airborne Radar ahead of the B2 Mainframe being built. I am still amazed when I see the B2 flying.
One thing i have noticed about B-2 discussions, is that practically no one mentions the electric field the B-2 was built with, with the leading edge being positive and the tail stub being negative. The Air force acknowledged the field and said it aided stealth, but no one mentions it???
Could you do a video on the two upcoming helicopter replacement programs? Sikorsky has the S-97 Raider compete with the Bell+Textron 360 Invictus in the AAS / FARA (armed scout) program. Meanwhile, the Sikorsky+Boeing SB-1 Defiant competes with the Bell+Lockheed V280 Valor for the FVL (long-range lift) program. Given how the US defense industry works, it is likely that both companies get one contract each, to keep every factory running, everybody employed. So if you like both Sikorsky or both Bell designs, get ready for a disappointment. The Raider has troop capacity while the Invictus does not, but that gives the Invictus better stealth properties, just like the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche had. Not sure why they abandoned that design. Just to push a common scout and transport design when they know it's not very likely they'll get both contracts? The V280 seems to be the more mature design, faster and longer range. But the SB-1 might offer better handling and safety, as it is not a tilt rotor. And it's smaller, closer to the Blackhawk size. This might really go both ways.
USA: Releases new tech Competition: copies and gets to about I dunno 70-90% close. Make a few of their versions... USA: Grins, releases even newer tech making the old obsolete.
Russian stealth bomber program, among many others, paid for many mansions, yachts, private jets, supercars, expensive gadgets, holidays. It paid for a false sense of wealth of insecure, mentally poor people that otherwise would have never even dream of being where they are now. And I couldn't be happier that they are the way they are. In the other words, WE ARE VERY LUCKY THEY ARE SO FCUKING STUPID. I hope that Ukrainians will help Russia to implode and fall apart. Patton was right, and it was doable back in the 1940s.
I think advancements in ECM and ECCM are just as important to the success of stealth as the shape and coatings of the aircraft. I also expect slave drone decoys to be used by our bombers to distract and confuse air defenses. I think stealth is both more advanced and more complex than it was at first.
While it would be nice to sell these advanced aircraft to our allies, it can be almost guaranteed that it won’t happen. We aren’t even allowed to sell the F-22 to other countries so I’d guess we aren’t selling an advanced bomber.
Australia can barely afford new subs being proposed to it let alone bombers like this. Something as top secret as this is never going to be sold to anyone outside of the US. It just ain't gonna happen. It's going to be a long time before the USAF sees the 100-200 they are planning on buying anyway and Australia wouldn't get priority access to these either so again, not gonna happen.
Somehow, I've watched the episodes in reverse order, though that matters little as both are fantastic news. I say that as a westerner, of course. I cannot imagine much joy in the hearts of fledgling adversaries. Though, as you may note from other comments, and with my support. The mighty B-52, being far cheaper to maintain per flight hour, will outlive many generations of its pilots.
From unconfirmed first hand reports It looks like the B2 but has a few visual differences. Supposedly even more capable electronic suites and more economic engines as well as newer engineering/construction techniques.
Very exciting. I am always thrilled to listen to your explanations. I love Aviation, all Military Aviation in particular. Every type of flying machine in service. I grew up near Gulfport Field and got to watch almost every type of fighter from F-84s or 86s forward, transports from the smallest to the very latest beginning with C-119 Flying Boxcars, reconnaissance aircraft from the RF-101 Voodoo, and one bomber, the little B-57 Canberra. I would ride y bicycle the 3 long blocks and have fun hanging out watching from 50 yards away. Now the road has been moved because of 9/11 so if I still lived there it would be disappointing. I was lucky enough to spend many many hours there through the first, second, third, and fourth generation aircraft seeing everything Air National Guard units from many states brought to town for their annual intensive training exercises. A large variety of small to large and very large aircraft. An occasional Navy fighter, usual an F/A-18 but even an F-14 once in a while. All the keys and transports from the Vietnam era, and most before and after. From the 1950s through the early 2000s. I was spoiled! I often got off the end of the runways a short distance outside the airport boundaries to be under afterburners of many generations to the hair raising howl and swaying pine trees in vortices from F-4 Phantoms coming in over the strobes I was lying between. Lots of fun!
Good piece. 11:50, "Image fidelity" is a misnomer....the issue is range and azimuth resolution. Low frequency radars have larger areas of ambiguity in range and azimuth. It looks like you'll have to rely on Aviation Week's report on the roll out!
I do remember when the first B2's rolled out , they weren't as stealthy as they were predicted to be. They had knowledge of the shape that reflected radar but did t have the knowledge about the different coatings the made the shapes almost invisible. Lockheed Martin was coerced into coming in and working with Northrop Grumman to make the B2 the stealth bomber it was supposed to be. And of course Northrop learned what Lockheed already knew.
What I find really interesting is that the Xian H-20 will most likely enter service before the B-21. Which makes you think, as they either began development much earlier than expected or development had a significantly faster pace. Although I suspect the B-21 will have a technological edge over it, as I think the H-20 will be more so comparable to the B-2 than the brand new B-21. Unless China received critical information straight from the development team at Northrop. Which isn't unlikely, the Manhattan Program was also full of spies.
The fact is, China's aviation knowledge and capabilities is years behind the US. They are making progress, good progress too, but nowhere near a danger for the US yet. So the Xian H-20 would be similar to the B-2 in terms of competence and functionality, but will lack some unique "cutting-edge" capabilities that the B-2 has. "Clones/Replicas" of the original will always miss out on something that makes the original, original.
The original flying wing was able to fly over an American reader station undetected in the 50s as I recall. The story was well known and repeated to me by my dad in the 70s.
Just a laugh. Before there was "stealth" in 1967 ATC would ask me to put the gear down so they could see my Beech Bonanza on their radar. The F-117 also has a V tail.
I was a USAF crew chief with Top Secret security clearance. There was a random transient F-117 that parked in one of our flight line hangars at my base in 2002. They posted up armed Security Forces to guard the jet and wouldn't even let us into the hangar to look at it.
@@232pm I'm 100% sure. It was an open front hangar on our flight line. I could see it walking by, but they wouldn't let us enter the hangar and get close to it.
@@A.J.1656 cool stuff, thanks for the insight... must have been some reason for keeping ppl away, especially those already working fairly close to / with, and familiar with a typical f117a ;)
I got to see a flyover by the B-2 Spirit at my cousins graduation from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 2000. It was an experience I won't soon forget.
Watched my first Sandboxx News video. Really good job. I'm curious why not a Seapower playlist? My first thought about a ceramic based RAM was, couldn't it be use on warships as well. I have hope that masts on warship become as obsolete as crows nests and sails. A stealth ceramic coating on everything above the hull seems like a no brainer to me. The same coating on a tethered aerostat would far extend the range of any mast ever built. In a heavy sea state a retractable mast could do in those situations. If you do more Seapower videos I may come back. I a will be back for your B-21 Raider video.
Man, if you like military tech, definitely check out his other stuff. Since discovering sandbox, it’s become a religion to me to watch all of his videos. Incredibly insightful.
@@markh.7572 Understood. So far I've only seen one video about one U.S. naval warship. I have to confess to a bias against the Air Force. But when WOW comes along.🤷🏿♂️
When the last B-21 is retired to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona the crew will be flown home in a B-52.
C-130 that first flew in 1954: "Am I a joke to you?"
I’m convinced that B-52s will one day be fitted with warp engines and serve in Starfleet.
@@bluemarlin8138 The Romulans are gonna get some rolling thunder
😂😂😂
@@jamesrwinters “C-130 rolling down the strip…”
"For the first time in 34 years, the world is about to get a new stealth bomber." *DAMN* am I old!
I remember the B-2 rollout.
i remember f 18 roll out... ouch
I even remember the Toyota commercial that almost stole the show for the B-2.
I remember when the B2 and the F117 first came out and they were so strange compared to anything that came before them. I can’t believe how long ago that all was!
I remember when the B-1 was new... *Ow! My joints!*
Talk about feeling old. I remember the F-117 becoming public knowledge. They didn't even announce it until people on both sides of the Gulf War and Desert Storm brought the F117 to the public's eye. So many UFO sightings from the 70's and up.
The most unbelievable thing about this whole project is that it's apparently on time and on budget.
For Northrop yeah lol
Same with the NGAD. Maybe the DoD finally got its shit together. We also don't see the MIC having anywhere near much control and clout as it used too(2000s and 2010s). Maybe that has something to do with it.
So far …
NG got their shit together after the massive overruns of the B2 cost them the YF23 contract .
this is a "secret project" so i wouldnt be surprised that they have been pouring money on this project since the B2 rolled out and they just kept it a secret/ofuscated so we wont hate on the project.
I was flying to LA from the east coast 20 years ago. The pilot suggested that passengers on the left side of the plane should look above our plane. We were directly below a B2 on the same course. The second coolest thing I've ever seen from a jet liner. Number one was a space shuttle launch.
It's just hard to get the hornies over our military tech when we're killing Russians trying to save Ukraine's OWN CITIZENS from NAZIS!!
Not because the Donbass, LPR, DPR, etc WANTED something other than to be LEFT ALONE
... (you know, like how Slovenia and Czech could just "vote their way out" ... )
But because the NAZIS in Keiv insisted they LIKE THE coup we finally succeeded at ...
A coup that's _UTTERLY IRREFUTABLE_ ... has the exact consequence our current CIA director SAID it would have ...
in his 2008 letter to Condoleezza Rice (Bush Admin) no matter WHO was the Pres. of Russia ...
We're the nation that REFUSES to honestly state what our enemies problems with us are.
Which is the FIRST STEP to resolving any problem.
- Iraq had WMDs
- Saddam ASKED US if he could invade Kuwait months before doing it.
- Ritter TOLD US AND THE MEDIA, there ARE NO WMDs in Iraq.
- There was no "ARAB SPRING" ... there were just CIA + and George Soros Coups
(but I'm sure the CIA had NOTHING to do with the "summer of love."
- There were no "COLOR REVOLUTIONS" ... the "Orange, Rose, etc., ....
- There were just COUP D'ETATS, funded by the US.
We succeeded pulling it off after we lied and sold the BS that Milosevic was a war criminal. (bullshit).
Then replicated it while everyone was focused on Iraq ... after Putin let us use THEIR BASE to start bombing Afghanistan.
We tried Ukraine in '04 & pretended "Russians just can't figure how to poison someone" after Yanukovych ALREADY WON!!!
We then tried it in Belarus, and though he's a dictator, history tells us we'd install an even worse dictator.
Then succeeded in Georgia, but that "totally peaceful, this is democracy" POS -Saakashvili- Sucksadiki had to flea bc the US hadn't first corrupted the parliament.
Thus, when we did the 2nd coup in Ukraine, we already had over half of parliament on our payroll.
Did you know that in addition to all the other money, YOU are paying the wages of their NAZI troops? At $5B every month, for over a year?
Did you know we've been conducting "joint exercises with the Putsch Regime" in Keiv since 2015..?
Listen to Mearsheimer's lecture to a group of IR PhDs and Professors ... and notice the question / statement not ONE asks:
"Are you SURE we conducted a coup d'etat?" Or "I don't believe we committed a coup d'etat."
They OUTLAWED THEIR LANGUAGE.
And used their MILITARY to bomb them.
NO ONE from the Donbass drove to Keiv to attack them.
ALL deaths between armed belligerents in Ukraine between 2014-2022 ... required people TRAVEL to where people lived, and BOMB THEM / use ARTILLERY ... on CIVILIAN POPULATIONS. Then, two NATO members brokered a deal: France and Germany brokered the AUTONOMY of the Donbass between Keiv and the Donbass.
Kiev never honored it. All they had to do was go home; they never did. And to this day, they shell RESIDENTIAL AREAS DEVOID of military value.
Some of the most absurd lies told??
- Russia SHOOTS AT ITSELF ... while inside a nuclear reactor it controlled since MARCH.
- Russia used a US HIMARS to target its own Military Personnel and Ukrainian NAZIS-POWs.
- Russia blew up a pair of Pipelines (Nord Stream) that Germany BEGGED THEM to build right after Germans protested in SUPPORT OF RUSSIA:
(CODE for, "WE NEED GAS PLEASE. Better still? That last lie was peddled by the SAME peddler who spells vilify "villify" ... in the declassified notes / words of Brennan documenting the lie Hillary made of Brennan in June 2016: Villify Trump claiming Russian FSB helping Trump to _DISTRACT FROM EMAILS_ ... and, in Oct 2020, proffered the "50 current & former intelligence officers called Hunter Biden's OWN LAPTOP ..... "Russian Disinformation." ). Disinfo Brennan put out via the VERY SAME channels who had to admit that his previous disinformation were lies also ... without ever mentioning the context of ANY statement by that charlaiton.
I'd rather be VULNERABLE with a WEAK MILITARY then engage in this DEBAUCHERY, & morally BANKRUPT conduct.
I served in the Marine Corps. Give other Marines the evidence, then, ask other Marines presented with the facts how they'd feel about going to war on another LIE.
CIA got Obama's speech writer to slide a phrase before he anticipated their moves...
Having called Chemical Weapons a "Red Line" they could FORCE Obama (via their media mouth pieces) into Syria.
They forced the UN inspectors to LIE & pretend it was Syria who'd "crossed that red line."
*Search: Seymour Hersh Chemical Lie*
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Or explain how destroying a 3rd world nation (LIBYA'S)
CIVILIAN access to RUNNING WATER helped the "moderate extremists" ..?
Or how NATO is a defensive alliance when it attacked Libya? Or Serbia?
Or why our CIA funded "moderates" were fighting the DIA funded moderates in Syria???
Once you understand that shit ... you'll see why the morality of pilots and officers can't protect us from immoral (evil) behavior.
Holy crap!! A space shuttle launch viewed from an airplane? I really need to live it up more
Not a good day to be a passenger on the right side!
@@Charles-pf7zy This popped up in my recommended feed awhile ago, sounds like you'd like it (it's a view of a space shuttle launch from an airliner).
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Very lucky indeed you are sir! -Ohio
I love the fact that the wave of triangular UFO sighting things in the 70's and 80's suddenly made a whole lot more sense when the B-2 and F-117 we're revealed finally.
Makes you wonder what the "tic-tacs" are and when we'll find out about them. Probably... super fast drone cruise missile thingies.
Ufos don't exist because we believe everything we see on T.V. or that the government tells us.
@@lexwaldez only thing is, who is it from? IF it's the US's, then they're denying it for classified reasons, but if its China or Russia or some hidden/lesser known adversaries's technology, then the US might be fucked cuz that "Tic-Tac" aircraft broke many laws of physics and could wipe out many new-gen fighter jets.
You’ll notice that “tic-tacs” are only spotted in out two offshore training area airspaces.
Triangle UFOs were seen Hovering in the Famous 1990 Belgian wave of them (Google It), B2 and F117 do not Hover at all yet the Black Triangle UFOs do. The Phoenix Lights was not a B2 or F117 as reported by the 1000s of people that watched it.
The B2 is wickedly wild and futuristic that I forget how old it is. 🤷♂️ Still one of my favorite airplanes to see in flight.
Agree. It's design is timeless
Saw a B2 in the sky back in like 1993 or 5 as a kid on Sunday morning driving into church. Freaked us all out and we pulled over to see what this crazy box in the sky was. Finally realized it was a plane, read in the paper the following morning that it was a B2 that had flown through the local AF base.
@@TheJBerg box?
One flew over Costco the other day it was pretty cool
@@beaclaster I’m sure many people thought it was a UFO
6:00 The star logo painted onto the flightline out of B-2 profiles is still badass 34 years later.
It's even cooler that they weren't really showing top down views of the plane during the rollout. Unless I missed it somewhere it was all from +-30° off the nose. Even the shadow on the ground was obscured.
Amen. I still have newspaper clipping...
...I never noticed that until 10 minutes ago........
Great design work! I'm sure the new plane is remotely controlled...no good need for pilots in the plane these days
@@-GBD- >> No, the Raider will still be piloted.
This time Northrop Grumman opens the hanger, the tow vehicle pulls out, there appears to be nothing behind it or in the hanger, the general says "There she is folks."
Nice one 😂😂😂
They could do that by having the attendees, press, Russians and Chinese in a theatre viewing a radar display looking at the hangar.
“Ain’t she a beauty? Now don’t forget to sign that NDA the Captain is handing out before you leave” 😂
It is a Russian stealth in action, actually.
@@peceed 🤣🤣 love it
If you were part of the Soviet air defense network, seeing the B-2 roll out had to be incredibly concerning.
Interesting timing
I wish my dad was still here to see this. He was a Deputy Commander of Maintenance in Guam when they transitioned to the B52 from the B47 that he flew. Before he left the Air Force after 33 years he was in charge of writing the book on how to perform maintenance for the B52.
This aircraft is just crazy cool.
Very cool. My Dad was a Crew Chief on the PBY Catalina's flying out of Australia during WW2. i still have his flight logs. Crazy times.
My father was a Project Manager for the B-2 Bomber project...I think, maybe he didn't make PM until J-Star. He died back in 2001 but I'm watching this for you Dad! I can only imagine how pumped you would've been about this!
Ur dad sounds like the sickest man there is man !
Which campus?
Hi Eric, did your father ever disclose anything or say anything regarding the alledged electrogravitic flight mode / technology alleged to be on some / all of the b2`s? as per the well known aviation weekly interview / article with one of the b2 pilots?
@@232pm nice try, FBI
@@HuNtS105 lol, yeah no... i`m a witness and whistleblower, just so you know.
As an unrepentant geek on the subject of stealth, the B-21 Raider will be a significant change in the power projection of US. The leverage of tech and the incredible security to guard its' latest capability is amazing. Outstanding job Brother Alex. One of these days you need to look at race to stealth, how we are cruising at the spot we are now. I contend the NGAD system of systems will have a very Raider like component in its' array. One sad note, the B-1 deserves better credit than it receives in terms of capability and what it has delivered.
The B-1 has always been the sexiest plane.
I almost got a ride in a B-1 while at an exercise. I was aircrew, but I didn’t have ejection seat training. Sad, sad, day for me. lol
America 🇺🇸 must develop and implement the B 1 R. Imagine Iran taking a pounding from the B ONE R 😂
@@Chuck8541 Sexiest is absolutely the best description of B-1. Those curves are sleek.
Correct. It's an all-new type of weapons platform, not just a regular replacement for the B-1. It's going to bomb a whole new way.
Just like the NGAD won't be a regular aircraft. It will be a whole new system for rapidly making and upgrading aircraft, more like the leap to interchangeable parts.
Then if some new weapon or whatever becomes available, the NGAD system should be able to incorporate that into aircraft design and 6 months later the new planes are being produced.
Procurement has gotten insanely expensive and takes years and years. The NGAD will shave years off the procurement time, thereby reducing cost significantly.
At least that's what they're saying.
That way you don't need to buy 500 F-22 aircraft to keep the cost low, then keep cutting back to save money, and end up with 100 or so that might be obsolete or worn out by the time they enter service. You can witness the war in Ukraine, figure out the main capability gap, add that to the design, and real fast make 10 of them for a comparatively low cost.
Frankly, I think most of them will be destroyed on the ground in a real war. Unless you hide them and have a lot of decoys. Well it’s no good if it can’t get off the ground in three minutes. To tell you the truth, these are dinosaurs. Unmanned is the future. With people on board is a disaster. Pilots are the weakest link, by far. I know, I’m a pilot.
It’s crazy how the US managed to put out 2 different stealth bombers before its allies and enemies alike could create one. We have plenty of area to improve, but somewhere we won’t be beat for a while is the air.
Edit: It’s done. The b21 has been revealed. On budget and on time.
It will be several years before the B-21 will be operational. I have no idea how far the Chinese are with their bomber program(s)?
Stalin once noted that “Quantity has a quality all of its own”, but that observation certainly does not apply to the famously expensive B-2.
@@sophrapsune
Turns out Quality can get good enough to overpower a good number of Quantity, and have pilots survive to train new ones.
@@Appletank8 That’s just a description of what quality is, but it can only have the impact permitted by its sortie rate: numbers, endurance & maintainability.
3, the F117 is a bomber with fighter designation
I'm glad Jack Northrop's legacy still shines today despite his flying wing projects failing
A year before Northrop died to old age, he was shown blueprints and a scale model of the B-2 Spirit. Northrop reportedly teared up and whispered "now I realize why God kept me alive for so long"
Northrop got special clearance from the Government because he wasn't cleared anymore. Great gesture.
A true aviation legend
where did Ole Jackie boy get his inspiration, the crazy horton brothers!!! flight is ever soaring!!
I have seen a program on History channel or similar channel. They said the showed Jack the B-2 mock-up before the B-2 was public. He supposedly had a tear in his eyes. His most ambitious project finally was to be completed.
@@tammywehner3269 Jack Northrop had ideas for flying wings separate from the Horten brothers. His XP-56 was built completely independent of Horten designs or inspiration. The "Horten inspired Northrop" is a myth spread by Wehraboos.
Nice to know that just prior to his death, Jack Northrop was informed of the B-2 program, given its very classified top secret status. The emotion and delayed gratification he must have felt knowing his life long passion and legacy would live on had to be incredibly redeeming, satisfying and heartwarming all at the same time.
And just a little tidbit: Russia never had, or invested in the super computer technology needed to calculate the rcs of a planes surface area from every angle. Therfore, they saw no value in Ufimtsev's work and allowed him to publish his findings.
Didn’t Russia believe semiconductors were a fad and kept using tubes for way too long?
@@SCIFIguy64 Probably one of the reasons China really wants Taiwan.
I remember back in the 1980's when the Soviets would buy Texas Instruments Speak and Spells to get the commercial chips from them.
@@SCIFIguy64 maybe they did, maybe they didn't.
There's a bunch of factors involved.
- people tend to claim they don't need something which is hard for them to attain
- dictatorships/totalitarian states trend to micromanage everything including science, with poor results
- people are promoted to key positions (including in science and military) on the basis of political and personal loyalty, not achievement, which generally reduces capability
- even a loyal leader, if too capable, is in danger of replacement as he (a) poses danger to his superiors and/or the dictator, as well as to his peers, so he often is removed, often with extreme prejudice
- smart people tend to leave such countries if possible, or not to "stick out" for above reasons and for lack of compensation as it tends to be unfair
- science tends to stagnate without international communication
- same for manufacturing
- people and enterprises fear that their property may be taken from them by the state or corrupt officials so do not drive for achievement, particularly that which is capex-intensive as most advanced tech is
The list goes on.
It's not just stealth getting 30 years of development since the B-2. It's also aircraft engines, composite materials, computer processing power for avionics, communications, etc etc
That thing is going to have VR and wall to wall touchscreens.
@@exactlybasically8603 not until SpaceX had its part in development ;)
I am really curious how much actual advancement there is in avionics, because already the B2 has some pretty advanced avionics in there. Unsure if carbon composites will end up being used in the B21, but that's one area that's definitely seen lots of development and widespread adoption. Combine that with improvements in engines and I wouldn't be surprised to see the B21 with a meaningfully longer operating range.
@@reaganharder1480 many people don't realize that the B2 along with other stealth aircraft are regularly being upgraded. Obviously the B2's shape and radar absorbent material coating the aircraft play a significant part in it being stealth. However, given the most technological advancements in its computing abilities, the B2 still remains second to none. It's no longer just its shape and coating that keeps it stealthy, but also utilizes resources simultaneously from satelites, air resources, land resources, and sea resources. All of those resources work together simultaneously in a coordinated effort to ensure the B2's stealthy effectiveness.
It makes me glad that the guy behind the original flying wing got to see the early versions of the B-2 bomber before he died.
The”Guy” was Jack Northrop.
@@mauriceclemens3286 I tried to look it up before I posted, I heard it in a video, but I couldn't be sure if it was Jack or not.
So I choose to be vague 😅
That guys name is the first name of the Company 😂😂😂
I find it hard to believe you guys DON’T know about the stealthy flying wing Nazi Germany ‘Wonder Weapon’ found and confiscated by US soldiers in 1944-45, along with German engineers and scientist’s (operation paper clip) given the striking physical similarities between that bomber and the B-2 so many decades later. So far ahead of it’s time, it’s scary but impresssive, as many of the ‘Wonder Weapon’s’ of the 3rd Reich were. Today’s reality might be far different if bonehead Hitler wouldn’t have called off funding for the advanced weapons research during the middle years of WWII until the Nazi’s became more desperate for a direction-changing technology to emerge that would route the technological advancements of the Allie’s which had the benefit of extended range and resources away from the battlefield.
@We All Laugh Down Here yea ppl don't like to admit the Horten Brothers helped the development of flying wings. They were good guys
Even 30 years after it came out seeing the b-2 bomber still gives me goosebumps.
I'm beyond excited to hear this news about the b21
Times that by infinity if an Russian interceptor pilot saw one.
@@peterweller8583 even then it’ll be impossible to intercept one, Russian Air Force haven’t even intercepted atleast one B-2 let alone the B-21 and plus the B-21 not even commissioned yet. We saw how the Russian Air Force performed during your special military operation in Ukraine, It wasn’t pretty let me you.
It's like "That time Batman needed a plane".
A few years ago the Liberty Memorial in KC turned 100. Of course there were speeches and a B2 flyby but that wasn’t all. Throughout the day multiple B2’s were flitting about the city like birds. I looked up to see one flying down Universal at at 200’. I was pumping gas 100 yds away. It was breathtaking. Those guys can turn and burn too, it’s very cool to see one standing on a wingtip.
The Royals/Chiefs flyby’s are fun not only at the stadiums but my neighborhood as well. It seems the plane(s) orbit the area around my house. This is because the flight time from this area to the stadium is the correct time to allow the plane to arrive for “the land of the free and the home of the brave”. So when the singer starts singing the anthem the plane leaves the orbit and passes over the drive in theater at the correct speed and altitude. Here a few years ago on the day of the Royals home opener it was quite overcast but the low clouds were opening up. I sat in the lot of a school and listened to the distinctive sound. Occasionally you would catch glimpses in the thin areas of cloud. In one view the plane came out of the cloud standing on its wing with vapor forming and disappearing over the wings. I got those chills.
@@1911wood I live in northern Independence & anytime they do a Chiefs/Royal event they fly in a circle over my house.
So loud, proud, & impressive.
I was stationed at MacDill AFB, One of the B2's landed there for a few days, I was leaving base one day on my way back home and it just happened to be taking off as I did. The size of it was massive, it's amazing to think something that large can be that stealthy.
I live near Whiteman AFB and I see/hear the Stealths fly over my house almost every week day. It's amazing because you don't hear it until you see it. And you don't see it until you hear it. It never gets old.
Seeing the aircraft fly over right as you went through the dale mabry gate was always one of the best parts about macdill to me
Really appreciate you giving credit to the actual background and originators of the theories of stealth! Well done!
I got lucky to see the B-2 way back when. I was at an event just north of Baltimore at a building that doesn’t exist. I happened to look up and saw the B-2 in a turn. When she went wings level the only way to find it was by the two F-4 smokers, one off each wing. She just visually disappeared. Amazing aircraft. I can’t wait for the 21.
I got lucky enough to see one when it flew over the Super Bowl in Tampa. It was a B-1B, a B-2 and a B-52 in formation, just awesome. I still get a little chill thinking about it.
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They used to come in about 500 feet above me where i worked in ca in the 90's. Usually at night.
Ive had the same visual disappearance thing when she goes side on, very impressive to see, or not see even.
I love how you say at a building that doesn't exist. Sounds like something I would say in my days in the military.
As an Australian I love these new developments in stealth. As a former Radar Plot in the RAN I can certainly attest to the fidelity of lower frequency radars too. I remember the old Delta band LW02 sets… Wouldn’t it be nice if the aircraft were made available to Australia under the AUKUS agreement? We’ve previously asked the US about making the F-22 available, as has Japan, but those were declined long before the AUKUS agreement. Prior to our current fleet of F/A-18Fs we had a long history with the F-111C and G. We lack that long range strike capability now, and for a country this size we need it!
I wish you could too, but from what I hear from people who live in Australia and other previous “dream endings” for Americans, things have gone way off track there and you have a government that is basically socialist. Not that I can talk being from the USA. A famous Norwegian recently visited me, and he said that I have no idea how great I have it. He called the current US administration “communist”- his words, not mine, but that we were destroying this country faster than he ever thought possible. He said Norway is shit now. He hates it and can’t believe that Americans are voting for bureaucrats and lefties just like ruined Norway. I’m a right-wing guy and make no apologies for it. By that, I mean less government control, strong law enforcement, big military, and respect for the constitution- especially the 2A.
Australians have always been splendid allies on the battlefield and some of the best people to grab a pint with.
Our defence minister did show interest in the b21 after the visit by the b2s, which had been here for a month.
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@@assertivekarma1909 I’ve never been drunk under the table other than by a few pommy sailors from Ark Royal in Sydney. A pint? Those blokes knew how to drink!
@@NoName-ds5uq work hard play hard, but let's not regularly succumb to substance abuse, that weakens us as cultures when excessive. Cheers
This all just goes to show how far ahead of his time that Jack Northrop was, a true aviation legend.
@Karma Mechanic a fighter made from wood?
This is not WW1
From what I understand of the subject, some people inside the project lobbied hard to get him a special clearance waver so he could see the, then still in production, B2 before he died...
Apparently he broke down crying and and said, "now I know why God has kept me alive all these years..."
Jack Northrop. Cheers!
It was sad to see how Jack didnt see how his "failed" boomerang plane evolve into the B2 Spirit.
Northrop's and Horton brothers' work was independent of each other, and contemporary, without knowledge of each other.
I remember seeing the B2 twice. Once at Whitman AFB (from several hundred yards away) and a fly over at an airshow. Amazing plane. I think the B21's physical appearance is a gross understatement of its capabilities.
Also a sad aside.. RIP to the AMAZING Bone. One of the coolest planes ever created. I still think we need a B1"c" upgrade with all the chooch of the A, and the stealth coatings and electronics from the new toys instead of retirement.
Saw a B2 once while in the Marines and I was impressed and now having a B21 in our inventory, I can only imagine what this aircraft can do.
my grandpa worked in complete secrecy on the design for some b2 wing structures/panels back in the 80's.... I wasn't born until the 90's but I've learned to have a grasp on the immense pride he had as an engineer. I've seen a b2 on the ground one time in my life and they're truly incredible.
Oh man, I remember the B2 and F117 from my childhood. I had little die cast models of them. The B21 sounds incredible. Can not wait to see those hangar doors slide open again. Those crazy engineers over at Northrop just keep knocking it out of the park. And as sad as I will be to see the Lancer go, the B21 looks awesome in the rendering. I think we also really need to give props to Northrop for their project security on this. You're right, the fact that not a single byte of information has leaked on this thing in 7 years is unprecedented. That's real steal right there.
Great info. I retired from Boeing in Palmdale and did contract work for Northrop Grumman in Palmdale as well. Worked on the B2 during its black world days. I am really excited to see what this new B21 can do and how it flyers. Here in Palmdale/Lancaster area we see B2's coming and going each month for service at the same Northrop Grumman facility. Great video and information.
When the B-2 was revealed in 1988 I was 12 years old and loved everything that had to do with aviation. Especially military aircraft. I remember how mind blowing and awesome the B-2 was. I’m 46 years old now and still have never seen a B-2 in person. I can’t imagine what the B-21 will be like but I doubt it will have the same impact on me that the B-2 had on me at 12.
My dad was in Europe at the B2's first reveal to the public outside America. It flew in silently over the runway and then roared to life, shooting straight up into the sky with the loudest noise he'd ever heard to return to base.
RAF Fairford?
Wow ....ur daddy was overwhelmed by that!! Get a life
Hey Alex, Another great video. Have you ever thought about doing a who lost the competition and what designs were not chosen video. For example: What other designs were submitted during the B-1 program. I've never seen a video covering this subject. We all know about the YF-23 but many other ( Tried but but missed) designs stay unspoken for. Again great job and as always very informative!
In the book by Ben Rich of Skunk Works he talks about their proposal for the new stealth bomber. It was basically a scaled up version of the F117. Given that the design was proven it would have been much cheaper than the B2 to build. As luck would have it, the choice of the B2 was definitely the right one. I think we all know that if Darth Vader were to join the Air Force there is only one plane he would allow himself to be seen in.
Awesome job as usual! Thanks Alex! With the significant advances in new adaptive engines and newer Ceramic based Ram, the combat factor gets a significant boost. The newer RAM, can also tolerate something like 3000 degrees no?, so less maintenance, and for fighters, that's huge, cuz they don't have to let off the gas after 5 minutes, with No damage to RAM....we just have to wait for it...amazing stuff. All kinds of new toys coming out...we will really need them if the trends continue.
I was fortunate enough to be hired as a Systems Support Facilities Technician at the B-2 Flight Test Facility at Edwards A.F.B, CA at the beginning of the bombers lengthy flight test program. I was able to gain access the bombers flight deck to connect test cables to the aircraft during grounds tests that were conducted before any test flight. I met the pilots for every test vehicle that was stationed at the facility.
My most favorite memory while I worked there was getting to talk to retired Air Force General Charles (Chuck) Yeager.
It was fun working there and I left to take my life long dream job at NASA Dryden.
I remember riding across the new B-2 hangar area when it was an iron frame. There's another building basically on the lake bed we we're headed towards.
I meet Yeager at the Mojave Airport when Dick Rutan, Jenny Yeager(no relations), and Burt Rutan had the showing of the Voyager.
I remember Chuck being a complete dick, a pilot....lol
On time and on budget.
A miracle.
Yep 👍🏾
Thats whats most impressive...these days. Would love to Northrup get back into commercial aviation....A bat winged commercial jet would END stick and wing planes...EFFICIENT.
Amen 🙏🏿
Being able to tune your radar absorbent material to specific types of radar sounds like the stuff of science fiction movies to me... And it's Northrop Grumman, so you know it's going to be good.
Two generations of advanced stealth technology ahead of the B2 Spirit...yet, no leaked pictures in 7 years of development.
Sounds like the stealth tech is working, folks.
the "reveal" will just be an empty hanger
@@anotheralpharius2056 the first time we’ll actually see anything about it, it’ll be after it drops bombs on actual targets 😂
That, and they don't tell you what you're building when you're building it, and they don't allow any electronics, and if you break clearance you lose it forever and go to prison. Plus they pay you good.
Cloaking technology confirmed. They'll be calling it the Bird-of-Prey
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I wouldn’t want to be it’s prey
l am so proud to be an American Veteran in my 80's....l have seen so many changes in aircraft....Thanks Alex and just hope l live long enough to see it in Dec.......Shoe🇺🇸
Thank you for your service! My generation owes you a debt of gratitude.
@@sjsomething4936 No my friend l was just doing my job....My part was flying my F-4 Phantom over Vietnam...Thanks
I'm old enough to remember the a10 roll-out and the ah-1 cobra. This new stuff is wildly innovative, but in the end, we'll still need all we have flying today. And probably many, many more.
The a10 is still innovative.
Great video. Thanks for putting this together.
Went to a Chiefs football game years ago, at the end of the pre-game stuff, a B-2 flew over the stadium with 2 escorts. The B-2 flew low, like it was just above the stadium.. Thing was Hugh!!! Most awesome plane I've ever seen!!!!!!!
I rented a garage back in 95 that was near the end of the runway at the local AFB, just before dusk I heard a plane taking off I did not recognize , I ran outside tripping over everything in my way ...To see the Beautiful and awesome B-2 clearing the tree line as it raced skyward ...As I jumped up and down with excitement😄 . I hope I have the opportunity to see a B-21 someday also 😊
I grew up in Dayton Ohio right by Wright Patterson AFB.. There were all kinds of things flying around we'd never seen before. Everyone said they were alien spacecraft kept in the big hangers under the hills at the end of Patterson field..
@@kestrel2120 ,Back in 1987 when I was in the Air Force ( stationed at Minot ) ,I saw the F117 Nighthawk "that really did not take off" but I saw It anyhow . All different kinds of Aircraft landed there ,including those " Mystery - You actually DID NOT see That" Aircraft. Err, hopefully , I'm not on a "list" now for typing this 😬😬😬.
GOD BLESS THIS STEALTH EAGLE
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God bless the caps lock button 😜 LoL
America's air force in the 22nd Century: B-91 Super Raider, the first invisible bomber, the F-72 Space Superiority Fighter, the F-75 single engine space superiority fighter, and the B-52 Stratofortress.
You forgot the A-10 Thunderbolt II and the C-130 Super Hercules . Those Birds will still be in the air .
Lol...great sarcasm. Flew over 90% of Yoo-Boobers tho.
@@michaeltheoret3842 I am not sure if the A 10 will stay around that long. Its role as a cheap, reliable CAS has largely been displaced by gunship version of Cessna or drones. With the advancement of SAM technology and kamikaze drones, it will not be worth the risk of pilots or money
@@quakethedoombringer I think the A-10s role will change like the B-52 and will be much more of missile truck like the B-52 is, after all the thing can loiter near a battlefield for hours with 10 tonnes of missiles (eventually drones) on its racks and return home with nearly half the aircraft blown away and swish cheesed up. Rumor has it that DARPA and Raytheon are working on a standoff munitions control, kind of like a drone mothership with swarm tech where the munitions are piloted directly by the JTAC and FACs keeping the A-10 and AHs out of harm's way for the most part. So a loitering A-10 can drop a missile on an enemy in less than ten minutes (instead of waiting over an hour for the hit and get aircraft to be briefed and fly out to the trouble spot) then clean up with gun runs before being relieved on station by more A-10s.
@@anydaynow01 that's actually not a bad idea. A 10 has more weapon and fuel capacity than a Predator. The Gau 8 can (theoretically) be removed to put in sensors. So you can have a really durable "mother ship" carrying drones and missiles
Thanks Alex. I appreciate your reporting
What is insane is this has probably been flown for a decade at least already. B-2 was first flown in 89 but publicly acknowledged in 97
Jesus. This took me back to the chills of seeing B-2 for the first time. I can’t believe it was all the way back in 1988.
Growing up I knew a Night Hawk pilot. It's crazy to see how far we have come with stealth.
I remember watching these fly around SoCal when my dad was stationed at Edwards AFB (a test base for the B2 at the time). It was neat. Always brought people out and about to a stand-still.
Thanks! Great overview Alex!
Great update, best channel on TH-cam 👍
On time and on budget? That's pretty rare these days.
I seem to remember a president that was pushing that concept of on time and budget. Even airforce one cost was reduced.
It was the F-117 Stealth Fighter that was just shocking. No one knew it was in the works. That was because whenever something happened that might have brought it out into the open (a crash in the Tehachapi Mts., for instance), it would be attributed to the B-2 bomber. Having the 2nd program to run interference was brilliant.
What is more shocking is that a defence contract is on-time and on-budget....
:)
It's an eight pound, six ounce, newborn baby Jesus miracle!
Great Video! Thank you for your efforts…
Awesome job Sandboxx
I saw B2 flying west over Illinois in 1987. Took one hell of a perfect collusion of conditions and knowing what I was looking at. Too high and slow to be anything else of its size and the air conditions were perfect.
In Vegas they always fly in pairs. If you see the first one wait a minute and look at the one following.
No you did not. The B2 first flew in 1989. Meh...
Was out mowing the lawn about 10 years ago and a B2 flew over and slowly turned.
I was staring up at it like I had just seen the starship enterprise in front of me. It was amazing.
Our property is located in an area that seems to be the turn around spot for B2 operating out of Whiteman AFB. It's pretty cool to see them make the turn above us and head back home. We see them a few times a year, when we happen to be outside as they pass by.
Thank you, Alex! Another excellent video!
Great vid, in fact all your vids are marvellous!
Excellent synopsis. Perhaps I'll get a chance to see the B-21 in night flight as I did the B-2 years ago as it flew low and slow toward Kirtland AFB.
Got to see a b2 flyover at a nfl game it was awesome
I remember seeing F-117s flying out of Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico for training missions. They were always accompanied by a jet trainer so their location could be tracked on radar.
What was between the f111 and f117?
These are amazing times with incredible planes, but think of those they haven't told us about yet!
Yes
True that, a slide of hand. Some of these stealth aircraft at there reveals probably slightly differ from the real ready combat-ready aircraft plus the many things these new high-tech aircraft are capable of are top secret.
I got my Security Clearance in 1981 and started testing components of the Airborne Radar ahead of the B2 Mainframe being built. I am still amazed when I see the B2 flying.
Great video, thank you!
Most importantly! Thank you Jack Northrop for his vision! Proud to be a Northrop team member and yes time goes by very fast.
One thing i have noticed about B-2 discussions, is that practically no one mentions the electric field the B-2 was built with, with the leading edge being positive and the tail stub being negative. The Air force acknowledged the field and said it aided stealth, but no one mentions it???
Could you do a video on the two upcoming helicopter replacement programs?
Sikorsky has the S-97 Raider compete with the Bell+Textron 360 Invictus in the AAS / FARA (armed scout) program.
Meanwhile, the Sikorsky+Boeing SB-1 Defiant competes with the Bell+Lockheed V280 Valor for the FVL (long-range lift) program.
Given how the US defense industry works, it is likely that both companies get one contract each, to keep every factory running, everybody employed.
So if you like both Sikorsky or both Bell designs, get ready for a disappointment.
The Raider has troop capacity while the Invictus does not, but that gives the Invictus better stealth properties, just like the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche had. Not sure why they abandoned that design. Just to push a common scout and transport design when they know it's not very likely they'll get both contracts?
The V280 seems to be the more mature design, faster and longer range. But the SB-1 might offer better handling and safety, as it is not a tilt rotor. And it's smaller, closer to the Blackhawk size. This might really go both ways.
3:40 I always appreciated how the star gave a pre-reveal of the shape of the B-2. Pretty cheeky: hiding in plane sight!
USA: Releases new tech
Competition: copies and gets to about I dunno 70-90% close. Make a few of their versions...
USA: Grins, releases even newer tech making the old obsolete.
Russia’s stealth bomber has had a 10+ year setback. 🇺🇦 🚂 💥
Russian stealth bomber program, among many others, paid for many mansions, yachts, private jets, supercars, expensive gadgets, holidays. It paid for a false sense of wealth of insecure, mentally poor people that otherwise would have never even dream of being where they are now.
And I couldn't be happier that they are the way they are.
In the other words, WE ARE VERY LUCKY THEY ARE SO FCUKING STUPID.
I hope that Ukrainians will help Russia to implode and fall apart. Patton was right, and it was doable back in the 1940s.
“Russian stealth bomber...” is an oxymoron.
@@tmike_tc barely even a bomber
Once they put on the rudimentary stealth coat on it, the forgot where they parked it last. Ivan had sold it for scrap to feed his family.
No, it's so stealth that it doesn't exist. :p
Having seen the B-52; B-1 and B-2 in flight….. esthetics-wise, the B-1 is still my favorite.
sadly B-1 airframes are too beaten up and not worth overhauling them.
[Northrop managing to steal Lockheed's thunder and doing so purely accidentally]
Never change, Northrop. Never change...
Great job keep em coming
17:06 wrong, because the USAF has also ordered more than 100 B2 bombers but only 21 were built
I think advancements in ECM and ECCM are just as important to the success of stealth as the shape and coatings of the aircraft. I also expect slave drone decoys to be used by our bombers to distract and confuse air defenses.
I think stealth is both more advanced and more complex than it was at first.
Third time in history, the F-117 was definitely not anything other than a bomber! But I get and agree with your point, this is very exciting!
In one way I want to see the B21, but in another way it is better to keep it secret from potential enemies and never show it
"on time and on budget' Amazing, really nailed this one
Materials science takes center seat for this project more than aerodynamics.
I just can't explain how much I love that they painted the star on the ground with the outline of the B-2. I hope they do that again.
Australia needs to buy at least 24 of these, ASAP.
While it would be nice to sell these advanced aircraft to our allies, it can be almost guaranteed that it won’t happen. We aren’t even allowed to sell the F-22 to other countries so I’d guess we aren’t selling an advanced bomber.
Australia can barely afford new subs being proposed to it let alone bombers like this. Something as top secret as this is never going to be sold to anyone outside of the US. It just ain't gonna happen. It's going to be a long time before the USAF sees the 100-200 they are planning on buying anyway and Australia wouldn't get priority access to these either so again, not gonna happen.
@@SchlopFlopper well An ally can be unreliable, so yeah better to sell it to a country who is very Pro US
"On time and on budget." What are these strange words you speak?
Somehow, I've watched the episodes in reverse order, though that matters little as both are fantastic news. I say that as a westerner, of course. I cannot imagine much joy in the hearts of fledgling adversaries. Though, as you may note from other comments, and with my support. The mighty B-52, being far cheaper to maintain per flight hour, will outlive many generations of its pilots.
Good Job Peanut ! So proud of you !!
From unconfirmed first hand reports It looks like the B2 but has a few visual differences. Supposedly even more capable electronic suites and more economic engines as well as newer engineering/construction techniques.
They’ve literally released artistic images of it
Very exciting. I am always thrilled to listen to your explanations. I love Aviation, all Military Aviation in particular. Every type of flying machine in service. I grew up near Gulfport Field and got to watch almost every type of fighter from F-84s or 86s forward, transports from the smallest to the very latest beginning with C-119 Flying Boxcars, reconnaissance aircraft from the RF-101 Voodoo, and one bomber, the little B-57 Canberra. I would ride y bicycle the 3 long blocks and have fun hanging out watching from 50 yards away. Now the road has been moved because of 9/11 so if I still lived there it would be disappointing. I was lucky enough to spend many many hours there through the first, second, third, and fourth generation aircraft seeing everything Air National Guard units from many states brought to town for their annual intensive training exercises. A large variety of small to large and very large aircraft. An occasional Navy fighter, usual an F/A-18 but even an F-14 once in a while. All the keys and transports from the Vietnam era, and most before and after. From the 1950s through the early 2000s. I was spoiled! I often got off the end of the runways a short distance outside the airport boundaries to be under afterburners of many generations to the hair raising howl and swaying pine trees in vortices from F-4 Phantoms coming in over the strobes I was lying between. Lots of fun!
Ok, so who wants to bet it's so stealthy they'll pull back the curtain to reveal an empty stage?
That would be an epic power move. Too bad our military doesn't know how to flex anymore.
Russia would be quick to copy with empty buildings
@@HubertofLiege you mean the eventually of invisitroopers? 🤣 Lmao
Good piece. 11:50, "Image fidelity" is a misnomer....the issue is range and azimuth resolution. Low frequency radars have larger areas of ambiguity in range and azimuth. It looks like you'll have to rely on Aviation Week's report on the roll out!
Thank you for your hard work. And for not having a digital narrator ruin it :)
I do remember when the first B2's rolled out , they weren't as stealthy as they were predicted to be. They had knowledge of the shape that reflected radar but did t have the knowledge about the different coatings the made the shapes almost invisible. Lockheed Martin was coerced into coming in and working with Northrop Grumman to make the B2 the stealth bomber it was supposed to be. And of course Northrop learned what Lockheed already knew.
What I find really interesting is that the Xian H-20 will most likely enter service before the B-21.
Which makes you think, as they either began development much earlier than expected or development had a significantly faster pace. Although I suspect the B-21 will have a technological edge over it, as I think the H-20 will be more so comparable to the B-2 than the brand new B-21.
Unless China received critical information straight from the development team at Northrop. Which isn't unlikely, the Manhattan Program was also full of spies.
This is not the 40s were it's hard to track down people.
The fact is, China's aviation knowledge and capabilities is years behind the US. They are making progress, good progress too, but nowhere near a danger for the US yet. So the Xian H-20 would be similar to the B-2 in terms of competence and functionality, but will lack some unique "cutting-edge" capabilities that the B-2 has. "Clones/Replicas" of the original will always miss out on something that makes the original, original.
The original flying wing was able to fly over an American reader station undetected in the 50s as I recall. The story was well known and repeated to me by my dad in the 70s.
Yeah, I meant radar station. I still think the flying wing incident is the real start of the idea of stealth technology.
Just a laugh. Before there was "stealth" in 1967 ATC would ask me to put the gear down so they could see my Beech Bonanza on their radar. The F-117 also has a V tail.
@@barrettjet To be fair civvie radars are usually about 10 to 15 years behind military radars.
I’ll never forget the roll out of the B-2 in 88 ..was so ahead of everything else.
This is like fusion power, we'll get it soon™
I was a USAF crew chief with Top Secret security clearance. There was a random transient F-117 that parked in one of our flight line hangars at my base in 2002. They posted up armed Security Forces to guard the jet and wouldn't even let us into the hangar to look at it.
how sure are you that it was an F117?
just seems odd having the fuss with no reason, must be something special about it..
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I'm 100% sure. It was an open front hangar on our flight line. I could see it walking by, but they wouldn't let us enter the hangar and get close to it.
@@A.J.1656 cool stuff, thanks for the insight... must have been some reason for keeping ppl away, especially those already working fairly close to / with, and familiar with a typical f117a ;)
@@232pm
I was on the U2. Maybe they didn't want us to see how much better the radar absorbing paint was on the F117 than what they put on the U2. Haha
Now imagine what would happen if the B21 doesn't even look like the concept art.
It'll probably look like a Sopwith Camel but constructed with somewhat more advanced materials . 🤣🤣🤣
@@michaeltheoret3842 a Sopwith Camel clad in microwave-absorbing Hot Pocket sleeves
@@r7calvin 🤣🤣🤣Also much of the airframe and flight surfaces will be comprised of advanced composites as well. 🤣🤣🤣
If you get tickets to the unveiling, you need to video yourself trying to tag it with a radar speed gun as it flies past for the memes
I got to see a flyover by the B-2 Spirit at my cousins graduation from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in 2000. It was an experience I won't soon forget.
Watched my first Sandboxx News video. Really good job. I'm curious why not a Seapower playlist? My first thought about a ceramic based RAM was, couldn't it be use on warships as well. I have hope that masts on warship become as obsolete as crows nests and sails. A stealth ceramic coating on everything above the hull seems like a no brainer to me. The same coating on a tethered aerostat would far extend the range of any mast ever built. In a heavy sea state a retractable mast could do in those situations. If you do more Seapower videos I may come back. I a will be back for your B-21 Raider video.
Man, if you like military tech, definitely check out his other stuff. Since discovering sandbox, it’s become a religion to me to watch all of his videos. Incredibly insightful.
@@markh.7572 Understood. So far I've only seen one video about one U.S. naval warship. I have to confess to a bias against the Air Force. But when WOW comes along.🤷🏿♂️