Kyle Mizokami
Security, core East
The one aeroplane Russia, China, North Korea and Iran full fear.
How the B-2 Bomber Could break Iran at a War
The want ought pierce advanced air-defense networks at the post–Cold pains epoch led to B-2s acquiring a usual encounter capability. The bomber can bring up ought sixteen Joint Directed assault Munition (JDAM) satellite-guided 2,000 pound bombs. at the past it has too carried CBU-87 Combined Effects Munitions and CBU-90 Gator mine dispensers, but submunition-dispensing munitions are being phased out at U.S. inventories. The bomber too carries the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, a slip bomb with a mount of up ought fifty miles and a GPS-based guidance system. though standoff attacks, the ghost can bring the AGM-158 Joint stand Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and the new, longer-range JASSM-ER (extended range). Finally, the B-2 can bring two 30,000 pound twenty foot long Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs for attacking hardened targets, one per weapons bay.
The B-2 ghost is one of three strategic heavy bombers at U.S. stand compel service. Originally conceived ought infiltrate the Soviet air-defense network and assault targets with nuclear weapons, can the decades its mission has grown ought contain usual precision attack. The B-2 is the most advanced bomber at U.S. service, and the only one of three types that still carries nuclear gravity bombs.
(This first appeared at 2017.)
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