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World · 20 March 2026

The Ghost Plane: What the B2 Actually Does

The Ghost Plane: What the B2 Actually Does

Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

The B2 Spirit costs 2.1 billion dollars per aircraft. It flies at 50,000 feet carrying 40,000 pounds of bombs entirely undetected. It is the only aircraft on earth capable of carrying the bunker buster bomb designed specifically to destroy underground nuclear sites. In June 2025 it hit Fordow. Iran said nothing was destroyed. The uranium was already gone.

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