B-2A Spirit Redux
Flying wing with no tail, no vertical surfaces and a radar return the size of a bird.
- Flying wing
- Low observable
- Internal weapon bays
- Intercontinental range
מפרט
- מדינת מקור
- United States
- יצרן
- Northrop Grumman
- תפקיד
- Bomber
- נכנס לשירות
- 1997
- סוג לחימה
- אוויר
- קוד הזמנה
- b2a
בשרת
The B-2 Spirit is a flying wing: no fuselage, no tail, no vertical surfaces at all, with yaw controlled by split drag rudders at the wingtips. That shape, combined with buried engines and radar absorbent skin, gives it a radar signature reportedly closer to a bird than to an aircraft. It entered service in 1997, only twenty one were built, and each carries its entire load in two internal bays so nothing hangs in the airflow. On MCS the Spirit is a slow, high, deliberate bomber. It has no gun, no dogfighting ability and no way to escape a fighter that finds it, so the whole job is arriving unannounced, releasing on a target and turning away before anyone works out where the bombs came from. Flying it well means planning a route, not reacting. Recommended for coordinated squad play where someone else holds the airspace.