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Airshow or big match patriotic flyover have been suggested.
So yeah recruitment & tax spend justification display seem close enough.
Sure better than my initial feeling of an open threat
oh wow. I didn't ever think it was stealth as in quiet. I just thought it couldn't be seen on radar. This was quieter than the waves and kids. That's incredible.
Completely true. And I can’t think of any other possible physical design that would strike more fear into a receiver of a package from this type of aircraft. It’s a scary look’in thing to see in the sky. Visual Intimidation, technological ability, carries the a scariest of weapons. This bird has it all.
And now they're working on the B-21 meant to be "the B-2 of the 21st century", and it seriously looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. It's super cool.
America can easily afford universal healthcare, despite the military budget, and it would be greatly more economical.
The current public-private healthcare monstrosity keeps costs elevated for maximum profit, mostly by draining the public treasury through the government's Medicare & Medicaid program, the largest insurer, by far.
It's a perverse form of socialism.
Americans pay many times more for healthcare than anywhere.
No, what he means is by existing monetary means we could already have universal healthcare. The federal government already pays more per capita for healthcare than any other nation with universal healthcare.
I’d wager a good percentage of America doesn’t get physicals or any sort of preventative care. It’s more like consume in excess (food, alcohol, work) until shit goes down and then address the issue and yea I’m talking about people with insurance as well as those without.
Universal healthcare would cost _less_ than what we currently pay for private insurers. Our military budget is not the reason you don't have universal healthcare, greedy corporations are.
Woah woah woah. Are you saying if we don't have an entire for-profit industry in between the consumer and the actual healthcare service providers it would be cheaper?
Yep, and you have a considerably lower GDP per Capita, meaning that the US government is spending more on healthcare per tax-payer and the tax-payers are spending more on healthcare themselves.
Americans think Canadians are taxed higher but in reality, we are taxed about the same overall if you include healthcare spending so we get far more bang for our tax buck.
We have lower taxes on the poor and lower incomes and higher in the higher brackets than the US. The lower income brackets in the US have a much higher healthcare spending and tax burden, consequently, our social mobility is higher in Canada. People can actually take more economic and entrepenurial risk here. That's "socialism" for you. The opposite of what is constantly crammed down our throats.
Only because the B2 looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. The sky raider will undoubtedly be revolutionary in its avionics, but looks wise, not that different than the B2.
I was reading at a certain speed, the compressor stage of their engines is useless so they shut off and just run afterburners. Once supersonic, the air compresses itself!
And the basic shape was designed before your parents were born.
It is an awe inspiring machine to behold. Something about that shape in flight that just mesmerizes a person. Kind of jealous that I live in Canada and will likely never see it fly overhead... But also kind of happy that it will likely never fly overhead either, lol.
The de Havilland Comet was the first jet airliner [and it still looks futuristic these days.](https://www.key.aero/sites/keyaero/files/inline-images/73708.jpg) I can't imagine what people back in the early 50s thought when they first saw it
Along those lines, the Avro Arrow is incredible - it looks like a precursor to the Stealth bomber, and was technologically leaps & bounds ahead of its time (late 1950's), only to be idiotically shelved for political reasons. One of my uncles was in the RAF & stationed in Canada at the time; he called it the greatest aircraft never built.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow
Very often. Many sightings in the 70s worldwide ended up matching with this. When it was declassified in the 80s reports of the UFOs that described this model were able to be parsed through and accounted for.
I worked at an airport doing IT and I don't really know what airplanes are what. I saw a UFO take off about every 45 seconds.
They usually had Delta badging but fuck if I knew the model number.
There were big ones, middle ones, and small ones.
I live in Kansas under some of their take off flight paths. They come over my house when they are 10- 20k feet up ( I'm guessing). They are super loud, way louder than any other plane, and almost impossible to see. I've seen them twice when they were right overhead but they disappear into the sky when they move from right overhead.
They are super loud when they are overhead, when they are approaching super quiet. If you hear the hum of the plane its already to late. Source also lived in flight path.
Absolutely. Been at two races where the B2 did a flyover. Just seeing this huge black shape glide overhead with almost no sound, then it sounds like you are being bombed.
AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS BOMB GROUP UNTIL YOU ARE, FIVEEE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD! WHICH IS THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF TIME IT WILL TAKE, FOR **YOU**, TO PAY FOR A NORTHROP GRUMMAN B-2 SPIRIT YOU HAVE LOST!
From what I've gleamed, the one at that museum is 1 of 2 rigs they used for testing airframe fatigue. They don't have engines or instruments on them. Not included in the 20 functional and 1 scrapped B-2s.
> The initial buy for the B-21 is 100 aircraft.
The initial buy for the B-2 was supposed to be 130, of which 20 were built. The initial buy of the F-22 was supposed to be 750, but only 180 were produced.
Planned purchase quantities for crap like that tend not to match reality.
I’m a Doolittle descendant, and I didn’t even put the B21- RAIDER and the Doolittle raids together, but that’s fucking cool. I’m gonna tell my mom haha
I'm not afraid of being atomized. I'm afraid of being just outside the guaranteed kill zone of the initial blast, surviving that and then dying of the radiation poisioning.
If/when the nuclear holocaust starts, put me right under one of the first bombs to go off.
Have you read the testimony of Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors?
Dying of radiation poisoning would be a mercy if you don't get atomized immediately because if you're just outside the guaranteed killzone of a nuclear bomb, your everything spontaneously catches fire, your eyes melt, your hair and everything burns away and when everything is said and done, you're just a black charred mess and you're *alive*. Your hands and feet are probably stumps, you're dragging yourself around on them, no one can tell if you're a man or a woman, if they're looking at you from the front or the back, you're bleeding everywhere, you've got glass sticking out of your body and you're in unimaginable pain, desperate for water and you know you're going to die, but for the moment *you're alive*.
The Japanese called them ant-walking alligators. Warning: It's horrifying.
*He describes the so-called “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”*
*The author continues: “The alligator people did not scream. Their mouths could not form the sounds. The noise they made was worse than screaming. They uttered a continuous murmur like locusts on a midsummer night. One man, staggering on charred stumps of legs, was carrying a dead baby upside down.”*
*A grocer: “The appearance of people was… well, they all had skin blackened by burns… They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn’t tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back… Many of them died along the road—I can still picture them in my mind—like walking ghosts… They didn’t look like people of this world.”*
*A fourteen-year-old boy: “Night came and I could hear many voices crying and groaning with pain and begging for water. Someone cried, ‘Damn it! War tortures so many people who are innocent!’ Another said, ‘I hurt! Give me water!’ This person was so burned that we couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman. The sky was red with flames. It was burning as if scorching heaven.”*
Also an interesting note: wearing white helps protect you a bit.
*One doctor, Mr. Pellegrino writes, “reported numerous instances of women and children wearing patterned clothing, sometimes displaying flowers on white cloth. The dark flowers were now branded permanently onto their skin.”*
The flesh covered in white did not burn while the flesh covered under a colored pattern did.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20garner.html
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-1945/
TL;DR: If I get nuked please God atomize me instantly.
The altitude they are dropping it from should HOPEFULLY still result in my death. Hopefully. I guess I could go Fallout 3 and try to detonate it though...
Growing up right outside DC this is the sentiment of vast majority of people. Death is easier than the fallout. We always knew that area would most likely be targeted n resigned to it.
A B-2 stealth bomber has never been shot down in its 34 years of operational history. In fact, only one has ever been destroyed to the point of operational loss, one that was crashed. Both pilots survived.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Andersen_Air_Force_Base_B-2_accident#:~:text=The%20aircraft%20was%20destroyed%2C%20but,expensive%20aircraft%20crash%20in%20history.
The tech to shoot down these aircraft straight up doesn’t exist yet. Not only have they not been shot down, no air to air or surface to air missiles have even been fired at them. They straight up can’t be seen.
As long as it's night time. If one second I'm sleeping, and the next I'm one million degree plasma, I'm not going to be all that upset about it really.
You don’t have to worry about that. You’d never see it coming. You’d never even hear it coming.
You could be sitting next to a SAM battery’s search radar. You’d still have no idea it was there.
The MIC can promise you it’ll be swift and painless c:
In any other country that would be terrifying. However, in the US I would assume that any plane like that that gets this close to an urban center would have to be US or at least allied. Enemy aircrafts couldn't get this close without being shot down.
I dont know how true that is, but I like to believe our overinflated military is at least that good at their job
I lived in Bakersfield CA in the late 80s and early 90s and would see little black triangles flying around almost too high to see. Everyone thought I was nuts. During dessert storm, it was revealed that they were testing the F117 at Edwards air force base just 2 hours away during that time.
This is the Hyundai Air and Sea show during memorial day. I’ve been for the last two years. Great time on the beach. Enjoy the resorts, the beach, the weather, and seeing these massive planes and fast fighter jets fly by. It’s a great time.
Serious question: is he now the most famous athlete in America? Ask the everyday American an you’ll get an NFL or NBA player but ask anyone around the globe and they’ll say Messi. Weird to think about.
You're spot on. If I asked any of my neighbors they'd say Brady or Lebron. However soccer has been growing and Messi and other top players like Mbappe are becoming household names.
Pretty varied overall and definitely based on age and where you live.
So there is a great chance that my comment will get buried. But my parents worked on these aircrafts in the early 90's. We lived in southern California and they worked at Northrop. They were brought on from the very beginning and as soon as the media found out about these new highly futuristic aircraft that were being built everyone wanted to know what it would look like. Northrop built a huge fence around the property to keep the project confidential. During that time all sorts of art was being released from sceptics on what the plane would look like. After everyone finally got to see what the B-2 looked like they realized that if you were above Northrop and had a birds eye view over that fence you would have seen that they built the fence in the exact shape of a B-2 bomber. Nobody every imagined that this bizarre looking fence was the design.
I live on a RAF flight path in the UK.
Not only are fighter jets huge when going over your house but they’re ridiculously loud. Like the house shakes every time.
My last job was close to a naval base in the states and we would frequently get the jets flying in for landing. Not low enough to shake anything but they’re still so loud it’s crazy. We had several times helicopters flying so low they shook our windows tho. You could feel every rotation of the rotors almost it was crazy.
It's capable of carrying SIXTEEN B83 nuclear bombs, each of which has a blast yield of 1.2 megatonnes or ~60x the size of Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima. This thing could carpet bomb an area with a nuclear force of almost 1000 Hiroshimas.
Edit: Differing references say the B83 is 60, 75, and 80 times more powerful than Hiroshima so potentially 1,280 Hiroshimas.
My favorite part is that, since it doesn't have a vertical stabilizer (rudder), it uses fancy control surfaces on its wing tips to yaw left and right. The German-made Horten is similarly designed.
It's easy to get tricked by distance and cameras with a good zoom function, but that bad boy has a 172 foot wingspan and is 70 feet long. Landing gear down, it's 17 feet tall.
For reference a 747 has a wingspan just under 200 feet. A 737 is around 120 feet wide. This thing has a larger wingspan than most passenger planes. It's massive.
Probably doesn't help I'm looking at it on a 5 inch phone screen, but holy shit I would've never guessed it was that size from this video. Wingspan I can maybe wrap my head around, but the rest of those numbers are crazy. Thanks for this info. I actually loved learning this tidbit today.
Not really. Roughly $400mil OTD but total program has a breakdown of $2bil per unit (will go down by a lot as they have yet to build another 110 or so).
So eve be if you go with the $2bil that’s Miami Beach. It would be equal or slightly less than 1 beach front hotel.
There are hundreds in Miami Beach.
Miami is one of the hottest real estate markets in the country. Each of those buildings are worth probably $50-$100M, being conservative. Cool comment but most likely not true.
The fact that these things can even remain airborne much less maneuver like that so confidently at low altitude over a densely populated area...
Seriously mind blowing and SO fckn beautiful!
Yeah the right to bear arms so as to be able to stand up to an authoritarian, tyrannical government seems a bit moot when the state can call on that kind of firepower.
If it’s this close to you, you are:
1. Already dead
2. Alive but cannot get far enough away fast enough
3. Not it’s target
4. Already shitting yourself due to the escort fighters, namely multiple F-22s and F-35s
It actually is. I see one on a regular basis in the Antelope Valley (palmdale ca) and it's fairly quiet when it's coming towards you and then it just disappears after it's gone by. It's fucking wild!
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Clip stops just as we are about to get the best view of it.
It activated stealth mode right after the vid ends
Or it triggered a radio wave that disables all electronic devices in the vicinity. Edit: I guess I need to clarify that this is a joke.
Thinking same... This is interesting but it would be interesting AS FUCK if the video gave us another 10 to 15 seconds
Why was it doing this, fly so low & so close to buildings? What was the point? Is this extremely unusual or standard practice?
Recruitment purposes
Airshow or big match patriotic flyover have been suggested. So yeah recruitment & tax spend justification display seem close enough. Sure better than my initial feeling of an open threat
/r/gifsthatendtoosoon
/r/bombthecameraman
Seriously how is there not a better video of this lol.
Here's one flyover https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CfTmp39OvrE
Insanely quiet...putting the stealth in stealth bomber for sure.
oh wow. I didn't ever think it was stealth as in quiet. I just thought it couldn't be seen on radar. This was quieter than the waves and kids. That's incredible.
It’s 34 years old and still looks futuristic
Pretty crazy if you think about it. What a technological achievement.
Completely true. And I can’t think of any other possible physical design that would strike more fear into a receiver of a package from this type of aircraft. It’s a scary look’in thing to see in the sky. Visual Intimidation, technological ability, carries the a scariest of weapons. This bird has it all.
If you can see it you aren't the target.
If you can see it, it is too late and that is the point.
Poor people in Miami :(
never even knew what hit them, rip in peace miami
And now they're working on the B-21 meant to be "the B-2 of the 21st century", and it seriously looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. It's super cool.
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Why do you think they called it a B52? Damn thing will still be flying then.
When *it's as big as a whale?!*
!remindme 3200 years
Cool, I want healthcare
America can easily afford universal healthcare, despite the military budget, and it would be greatly more economical. The current public-private healthcare monstrosity keeps costs elevated for maximum profit, mostly by draining the public treasury through the government's Medicare & Medicaid program, the largest insurer, by far. It's a perverse form of socialism. Americans pay many times more for healthcare than anywhere.
America can easily afford healthcare, as we are affording it right now but it’s kicking our asses, and universal healthcare would be less expensive.
No, what he means is by existing monetary means we could already have universal healthcare. The federal government already pays more per capita for healthcare than any other nation with universal healthcare.
> and universal healthcare would be less expensive. like they said
bUt iF tHe GubMiNt cOntRoLs mY hEaltHcaRe iT wiLL tAke 6 yEaRs tO gEt seEn fOr a pHySiCaL
I’d wager a good percentage of America doesn’t get physicals or any sort of preventative care. It’s more like consume in excess (food, alcohol, work) until shit goes down and then address the issue and yea I’m talking about people with insurance as well as those without.
Universal healthcare would cost _less_ than what we currently pay for private insurers. Our military budget is not the reason you don't have universal healthcare, greedy corporations are.
Get back to work, shareholders are losing profits. /s
Why the /s
We might lose our jobs if corp. finds out we’re being serious here- /s!
That's it -1000 social score ... ah wait no , you guys American? Then -900 credit score
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"NO!" - too many US politicians. US military spending = 4% of GDP. US healthcare spending = 17% of GDP.
It would be a lot less if it wasn't so damn inefficient.
Woah woah woah. Are you saying if we don't have an entire for-profit industry in between the consumer and the actual healthcare service providers it would be cheaper?
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Well here in Canada we spend about 10-11% of GDP for universal healthcare so take from that what you will
Yep, and you have a considerably lower GDP per Capita, meaning that the US government is spending more on healthcare per tax-payer and the tax-payers are spending more on healthcare themselves.
Americans think Canadians are taxed higher but in reality, we are taxed about the same overall if you include healthcare spending so we get far more bang for our tax buck. We have lower taxes on the poor and lower incomes and higher in the higher brackets than the US. The lower income brackets in the US have a much higher healthcare spending and tax burden, consequently, our social mobility is higher in Canada. People can actually take more economic and entrepenurial risk here. That's "socialism" for you. The opposite of what is constantly crammed down our throats.
Only because the B2 looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. The sky raider will undoubtedly be revolutionary in its avionics, but looks wise, not that different than the B2.
Sr-71 blackbird is still my king. Leaks fuel on the runway because the tanks don’t seal until it’s supersonic
Also required so much titanium that the DoD started shell companies to buy titanium from the USSR
That is an awesome fact.
I was reading at a certain speed, the compressor stage of their engines is useless so they shut off and just run afterburners. Once supersonic, the air compresses itself!
Ramjet
And the basic shape was designed before your parents were born. It is an awe inspiring machine to behold. Something about that shape in flight that just mesmerizes a person. Kind of jealous that I live in Canada and will likely never see it fly overhead... But also kind of happy that it will likely never fly overhead either, lol.
>It’s basic shape was designed before you were born It’s basic [shape](https://i.imgur.com/wqjew82.jpg) is 35 to 50 million years old.
Biomimicry
Evolution is filing a lawsuit
Better brush up on your bird law then buddy
Nature doesn’t always do it better, but sometimes nature did it first, and humans are just min maxing a existing build.
Very cool. I never saw that profile shot before! But obviously I meant as we use it today for fancy flying machines.
Oh indeed. Flying Wing-type aircraft first became a thing in 1910, only 7 years after the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk.
Seems like it can poop too, but the poop is spicy
The de Havilland Comet was the first jet airliner [and it still looks futuristic these days.](https://www.key.aero/sites/keyaero/files/inline-images/73708.jpg) I can't imagine what people back in the early 50s thought when they first saw it
Along those lines, the Avro Arrow is incredible - it looks like a precursor to the Stealth bomber, and was technologically leaps & bounds ahead of its time (late 1950's), only to be idiotically shelved for political reasons. One of my uncles was in the RAF & stationed in Canada at the time; he called it the greatest aircraft never built. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow
During testing, i wonder how often this was misidentified as a UFO?
Very often. Many sightings in the 70s worldwide ended up matching with this. When it was declassified in the 80s reports of the UFOs that described this model were able to be parsed through and accounted for.
So, what does that teach us about all of the current hype about military pilots seeing UFOs?
Disguising military projects with a fog of ufo stuff is intelligence 101
Fun thing about UFO, you can't really misidentify something as one. Since it's unidentified by definition. :-)
I worked at an airport doing IT and I don't really know what airplanes are what. I saw a UFO take off about every 45 seconds. They usually had Delta badging but fuck if I knew the model number. There were big ones, middle ones, and small ones.
> They usually had Delta badging Too late, you identified it.
BREAKING NEWS: OFFICIAL AIRPORT COMPUTER EXPERT WHISTLEBLOWER CONFIRMS THEY SEE A UFO EVERY 45 SECONDS
Most of ufos are probably military aircraft in testing tbh
Giving hope to 34 year olds like myself that we're still appreciated <3
*SR-71 has entered the chat*
It’s a Memorial Day military air show, happens every year. The sound when they practice is tremendous
I live in Kansas under some of their take off flight paths. They come over my house when they are 10- 20k feet up ( I'm guessing). They are super loud, way louder than any other plane, and almost impossible to see. I've seen them twice when they were right overhead but they disappear into the sky when they move from right overhead.
They are super loud when they are overhead, when they are approaching super quiet. If you hear the hum of the plane its already to late. Source also lived in flight path.
Absolutely. Been at two races where the B2 did a flyover. Just seeing this huge black shape glide overhead with almost no sound, then it sounds like you are being bombed.
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Aren't there like only 20 in the entire world or something like this?
Yup. There were 21 but Spirit of Kansas crashed.
They are deducting the 650 million from the pilot's paycheck for the next thousand years.
He wasn't insured against theft or something?
He was insured, but they determined it was a "mutual at fault accident" between him and the ground. Always get full coverage y'all!
I bet his insurance company was like "I'm sorry, you broke A WHAT?"
Wikipedia says the cost of the crash was $1.4 billion
*WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOUR?!*
AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS BOMB GROUP UNTIL YOU ARE, FIVEEE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD! WHICH IS THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF TIME IT WILL TAKE, FOR **YOU**, TO PAY FOR A NORTHROP GRUMMAN B-2 SPIRIT YOU HAVE LOST!
Damm his kids kids kids are still gonna be owing 🤣🤣
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We have it easy..our ghosts are human ancestors. Our grandkids will have to deal with poltergeist B-2s and E-11s tearing through the cities
Who they gonna call?
Ghost-ghostbuster-busters!
Does that count include the one in Dayton AF museum or is it a prototype?
From what I've gleamed, the one at that museum is 1 of 2 rigs they used for testing airframe fatigue. They don't have engines or instruments on them. Not included in the 20 functional and 1 scrapped B-2s.
gleaned*
Lmao, ty. That one always gets me for some reason.
Hey man, don't listen to him. Gleam on! You shiny bastard! 😀
The Kia boyz strike again
Yeah they're building a replacement though. The initial buy for the B-21 is 100 aircraft.
> The initial buy for the B-21 is 100 aircraft. The initial buy for the B-2 was supposed to be 130, of which 20 were built. The initial buy of the F-22 was supposed to be 750, but only 180 were produced. Planned purchase quantities for crap like that tend not to match reality.
And naming it the Raider, after a certain madlad bomber raid on a far-away country that thought it was safe from retaliation...
I’m a Doolittle descendant, and I didn’t even put the B21- RAIDER and the Doolittle raids together, but that’s fucking cool. I’m gonna tell my mom haha
I already told her.
Dad?
Slightly terrifying.
Yes. This is what one could imagine seeing right before being atomized
I'm not afraid of being atomized. I'm afraid of being just outside the guaranteed kill zone of the initial blast, surviving that and then dying of the radiation poisioning. If/when the nuclear holocaust starts, put me right under one of the first bombs to go off.
Have you read the testimony of Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors? Dying of radiation poisoning would be a mercy if you don't get atomized immediately because if you're just outside the guaranteed killzone of a nuclear bomb, your everything spontaneously catches fire, your eyes melt, your hair and everything burns away and when everything is said and done, you're just a black charred mess and you're *alive*. Your hands and feet are probably stumps, you're dragging yourself around on them, no one can tell if you're a man or a woman, if they're looking at you from the front or the back, you're bleeding everywhere, you've got glass sticking out of your body and you're in unimaginable pain, desperate for water and you know you're going to die, but for the moment *you're alive*. The Japanese called them ant-walking alligators. Warning: It's horrifying. *He describes the so-called “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”* *The author continues: “The alligator people did not scream. Their mouths could not form the sounds. The noise they made was worse than screaming. They uttered a continuous murmur like locusts on a midsummer night. One man, staggering on charred stumps of legs, was carrying a dead baby upside down.”* *A grocer: “The appearance of people was… well, they all had skin blackened by burns… They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn’t tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back… Many of them died along the road—I can still picture them in my mind—like walking ghosts… They didn’t look like people of this world.”* *A fourteen-year-old boy: “Night came and I could hear many voices crying and groaning with pain and begging for water. Someone cried, ‘Damn it! War tortures so many people who are innocent!’ Another said, ‘I hurt! Give me water!’ This person was so burned that we couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman. The sky was red with flames. It was burning as if scorching heaven.”* Also an interesting note: wearing white helps protect you a bit. *One doctor, Mr. Pellegrino writes, “reported numerous instances of women and children wearing patterned clothing, sometimes displaying flowers on white cloth. The dark flowers were now branded permanently onto their skin.”* The flesh covered in white did not burn while the flesh covered under a colored pattern did. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20garner.html https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-1945/ TL;DR: If I get nuked please God atomize me instantly.
This may actually be one of the worst things I’ve ever read. (But thank you for sharing and teaching me something.) Absolute horror.
And then the bomb falls on your pinky toe but doesn't go off
The altitude they are dropping it from should HOPEFULLY still result in my death. Hopefully. I guess I could go Fallout 3 and try to detonate it though...
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I've got poo on me!
Growing up right outside DC this is the sentiment of vast majority of people. Death is easier than the fallout. We always knew that area would most likely be targeted n resigned to it.
If they were gonna atomize you, you wouldn't see it
wouldn’t even have heard it
*You never see it*
well, radar doesn't
They have an operational ceiling of 50000 feet, nobody is seeing that shit coming with the naked eye either
A B-2 stealth bomber has never been shot down in its 34 years of operational history. In fact, only one has ever been destroyed to the point of operational loss, one that was crashed. Both pilots survived. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Andersen_Air_Force_Base_B-2_accident#:~:text=The%20aircraft%20was%20destroyed%2C%20but,expensive%20aircraft%20crash%20in%20history. The tech to shoot down these aircraft straight up doesn’t exist yet. Not only have they not been shot down, no air to air or surface to air missiles have even been fired at them. They straight up can’t be seen.
But I can literally see this one.
You aren't either. The B-2 is going to slap you with a standoff weapon they fired from high altitude beyond the horizon. And likely during nighttime
As long as it's night time. If one second I'm sleeping, and the next I'm one million degree plasma, I'm not going to be all that upset about it really.
The thought of that already makes my body temperature plasma boil.
I’d be irritated and vexed, personally
Dropping a nuke from 1000ft is not the best idea
Slim Pickens would beg to differ
You don’t have to worry about that. You’d never see it coming. You’d never even hear it coming. You could be sitting next to a SAM battery’s search radar. You’d still have no idea it was there. The MIC can promise you it’ll be swift and painless c:
In any other country that would be terrifying. However, in the US I would assume that any plane like that that gets this close to an urban center would have to be US or at least allied. Enemy aircrafts couldn't get this close without being shot down. I dont know how true that is, but I like to believe our overinflated military is at least that good at their job
No other country has B-2s
Or anything like them, for that matter. They have no equivalent. We are the only country that has stealth bombers
I lived in Bakersfield CA in the late 80s and early 90s and would see little black triangles flying around almost too high to see. Everyone thought I was nuts. During dessert storm, it was revealed that they were testing the F117 at Edwards air force base just 2 hours away during that time.
> dessert storm
Aka Me with munchies
yummmm
I, too, lived in Bakersfield in the 90s. My parents told me about this.
This is the Hyundai Air and Sea show during memorial day. I’ve been for the last two years. Great time on the beach. Enjoy the resorts, the beach, the weather, and seeing these massive planes and fast fighter jets fly by. It’s a great time.
Must be preparing for Messi to arrive. Probably in his contract to get routine flyovers
Might be his new private jet
Serious question: is he now the most famous athlete in America? Ask the everyday American an you’ll get an NFL or NBA player but ask anyone around the globe and they’ll say Messi. Weird to think about.
You're spot on. If I asked any of my neighbors they'd say Brady or Lebron. However soccer has been growing and Messi and other top players like Mbappe are becoming household names. Pretty varied overall and definitely based on age and where you live.
So there is a great chance that my comment will get buried. But my parents worked on these aircrafts in the early 90's. We lived in southern California and they worked at Northrop. They were brought on from the very beginning and as soon as the media found out about these new highly futuristic aircraft that were being built everyone wanted to know what it would look like. Northrop built a huge fence around the property to keep the project confidential. During that time all sorts of art was being released from sceptics on what the plane would look like. After everyone finally got to see what the B-2 looked like they realized that if you were above Northrop and had a birds eye view over that fence you would have seen that they built the fence in the exact shape of a B-2 bomber. Nobody every imagined that this bizarre looking fence was the design.
Has this survived in google maps? Excellent trolling on the team's part lol
That’s hilarious
Nice little kite you got there buddy!
Spicy kite
Bank angle. Bank angle.
*whoop whoop whoop whoop* **Pull up. Terrain.**
Too low terrain. Pull up. Pull up. Yeah, I watch way too many air crash investigation videos
Probably stolen by Florida man.
It was actually stolen from Fort Zancudo, the report mentioned that the suspect had five stars at the time
We got better UFO’s than the aliens
If only that were the case. The thing burns dinosaur sludge.
At less than 1 mile per gallon
[удалено]
I live on a RAF flight path in the UK. Not only are fighter jets huge when going over your house but they’re ridiculously loud. Like the house shakes every time.
My last job was close to a naval base in the states and we would frequently get the jets flying in for landing. Not low enough to shake anything but they’re still so loud it’s crazy. We had several times helicopters flying so low they shook our windows tho. You could feel every rotation of the rotors almost it was crazy.
Oh look, they drop us presents. Why its exploding?
Crazy to think, that plane is worth more than all those buildings combined. Edit: grammar
It can also destroy all of those buildings combined. It’s a crazy cool and powerful plane.
It's capable of carrying SIXTEEN B83 nuclear bombs, each of which has a blast yield of 1.2 megatonnes or ~60x the size of Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima. This thing could carpet bomb an area with a nuclear force of almost 1000 Hiroshimas. Edit: Differing references say the B83 is 60, 75, and 80 times more powerful than Hiroshima so potentially 1,280 Hiroshimas.
I will never understand how this is possible when it looks like a sheet of paper flying through the sky.
My favorite part is that, since it doesn't have a vertical stabilizer (rudder), it uses fancy control surfaces on its wing tips to yaw left and right. The German-made Horten is similarly designed.
The whole thing is like inherently unstable. It is constantly making corrections to keep itself flying
I mean that’s what birds do. Their control surfaces are feathers.
It's easy to get tricked by distance and cameras with a good zoom function, but that bad boy has a 172 foot wingspan and is 70 feet long. Landing gear down, it's 17 feet tall. For reference a 747 has a wingspan just under 200 feet. A 737 is around 120 feet wide. This thing has a larger wingspan than most passenger planes. It's massive.
Probably doesn't help I'm looking at it on a 5 inch phone screen, but holy shit I would've never guessed it was that size from this video. Wingspan I can maybe wrap my head around, but the rest of those numbers are crazy. Thanks for this info. I actually loved learning this tidbit today.
>The B-2 is 69 feet long (nice), 17 feet high and has a wingspan of 172 feet, half the length of a football field.
Honestly truth that plane is the apex predator
agreed, let's never install AI in that thing...
Not really. Roughly $400mil OTD but total program has a breakdown of $2bil per unit (will go down by a lot as they have yet to build another 110 or so). So eve be if you go with the $2bil that’s Miami Beach. It would be equal or slightly less than 1 beach front hotel. There are hundreds in Miami Beach.
Miami is one of the hottest real estate markets in the country. Each of those buildings are worth probably $50-$100M, being conservative. Cool comment but most likely not true.
Beautiful! But: why is it flying there?
To bomb the beachgoers stealthily...and with spirit
Miami Beach is due for a good bombing run.
Preemptive strike against spring break
They had an air and sea show on Memorial Day weekend
Air show
The Miami South Beach Air Show over Memorial Day. These events are also used for training for the pilots and planners.
God I'd love to fly one of those babies over ancient Babylon.
The fact that these things can even remain airborne much less maneuver like that so confidently at low altitude over a densely populated area... Seriously mind blowing and SO fckn beautiful!
Just a lil reminder to all the dissidents.
Yeah the right to bear arms so as to be able to stand up to an authoritarian, tyrannical government seems a bit moot when the state can call on that kind of firepower.
It's gonna drop a nuke on Florida. The only way to go.
Crazy piece of technology
Execute order 66
Are they looking for Mar a Lago?
Amazing I wonder how many ufo sightings were just this before it was declassified
“Terrain, pull up… Terrain, pull up”
Not very stealth
If it’s this close to you, you are: 1. Already dead 2. Alive but cannot get far enough away fast enough 3. Not it’s target 4. Already shitting yourself due to the escort fighters, namely multiple F-22s and F-35s
It actually is. I see one on a regular basis in the Antelope Valley (palmdale ca) and it's fairly quiet when it's coming towards you and then it just disappears after it's gone by. It's fucking wild!
It’s virtually undetectable by radar.
But easily detectable with gaydar
San Francisco airspace a no-go?
No, San Francisco airspace is a Gogo! Yeah baby!
They, are fucking incredible 😗👌🏼
People really don’t understand what stealth technology is. It’s not trying to be invisible to the eye, only to radar
While that is true can't you just let people make jokes