B2 – Spirit – Stealth Bomber

NAME OF AIRCRAFTDESCRIPTION
B2 – Spirit – Stealth BomberThe Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses. Designed during the Cold War, it is a flying wing design with a crew of two.] The bomber is subsonic and can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
NICKNAME/DESCRIPTIONNICKNAME/INFORMATION SERIAL NUMBERNAME OF MUSEUMCITYSTATE
B2 – Spirit – Stealth BomberFULL SCALE TEST INFORMATION82-1070NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AIR FORCEDAYTON
OHIO
SPECIFICATIONS
DESCRIPTION
STATUSDISPLAYED
MANUFACTURERNorthrop Grumman Corp
YEAR17 JULY 1989
MODEL‌‌B-2 Spirit which means ghost, is the name of a multi-purpose stealth bomber made by Northrop Grumman Company
CREW2 PILOTS
MAX T/O WEIGHT336,500 pounds (152,634 kilograms)
SPAN172 feet (52.12 meters)
LENGTH69 feet (20.9 meters)
HEIGHT17 feet (5.1 meters)
MAXIMUM SPEEDhigh subsonic
CRUISE SPEED559.23 mph
RATE OF CLIMB 2,060 FT/MIN
PAYLOAD40,000 pounds (18,144 kilograms)
POWERPLANT four General Electric F118-GE-100 engines
THRUST17,300 pounds each engine 
FUEL CAPACITY 167,000 pounds (75750 kilograms)
RANGE intercontinental
SERVICE CEILING 50,000 feet (15,240 meters)
ARMAMENT conventional or nuclear weapons
UNIT COSTApproximately $1.157 billion (fiscal 1998 constant dollars)