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Full Reveal Video inside the B2 Stealth Bomber
For the first time ever in-flight video inside the cockpit of the B2 Stealth Bomber. One of the most secret places on earth, finally revealed.
28 Apr 2019
More photos at https://jeffbolton.org. One of them:
New Video Of B-2 Bomber Dropping Mother Of All Bunker Busters Sends Ominous Message
The high definition video shows a B-2 stealth bomber dropping a pair of GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.
17 May 2019
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...r-of-all-bunker-busters-sends-ominous-message
The B-2 Spirit is still America's silver bullet over 20 years after it entered operational service and 30 years since it began its flight test program. Its nuclear capability remains a key component of America's Nuclear Triad, but its ever-evolving, long-range, deep-penetrating, conventional strike abilities are what has made the Spirit the plane that often goes to work first when America's armed forces get a 911 call. One of the most important weapons in the B-2's repertoire is the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)—the most powerful non-nuclear bunker buster on the planet weighing in at a whopping 33,000 pounds.
This weapon, paired with the B-2's ability to sneak deep into enemy territory, give the United States the ability to destroy the most fortified and high-value bunkers on earth. This is the weapon that will be put to work on the very first moments of a U.S. air campaign in North Korea or Iran. It is a highly unique capability that no other air arm of on earth possesses.
One has to be suspicious of the timing of the release of this video,—which came with no detailed description—as tensions are ratcheting up between the U.S. and both Iran and North Korea. [Actually, the video just released by the USAF is not entirely new, it's an excerpt from the 21 Dec 2018 video I link to below. - W]
The MOP is precision guided primarily using GPS, similar to the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). Yet even the bunker buster variants in that series of weapons are incomparable to the mighty MOP. This precision guidance is thought to allow the MOP to not only hit deeply-buried installations at their weakest points, but it offers the potential to 'layer-in' multiple MOPs on a single pinpoint location—in effect 'digging' down to where the soil, rock, and concrete end and the vital infrastructure begins.
For the first time ever in-flight video inside the cockpit of the B2 Stealth Bomber. One of the most secret places on earth, finally revealed.
28 Apr 2019
More photos at https://jeffbolton.org. One of them:
New Video Of B-2 Bomber Dropping Mother Of All Bunker Busters Sends Ominous Message
The high definition video shows a B-2 stealth bomber dropping a pair of GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators.
17 May 2019
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...r-of-all-bunker-busters-sends-ominous-message
The B-2 Spirit is still America's silver bullet over 20 years after it entered operational service and 30 years since it began its flight test program. Its nuclear capability remains a key component of America's Nuclear Triad, but its ever-evolving, long-range, deep-penetrating, conventional strike abilities are what has made the Spirit the plane that often goes to work first when America's armed forces get a 911 call. One of the most important weapons in the B-2's repertoire is the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)—the most powerful non-nuclear bunker buster on the planet weighing in at a whopping 33,000 pounds.
This weapon, paired with the B-2's ability to sneak deep into enemy territory, give the United States the ability to destroy the most fortified and high-value bunkers on earth. This is the weapon that will be put to work on the very first moments of a U.S. air campaign in North Korea or Iran. It is a highly unique capability that no other air arm of on earth possesses.
One has to be suspicious of the timing of the release of this video,—which came with no detailed description—as tensions are ratcheting up between the U.S. and both Iran and North Korea. [Actually, the video just released by the USAF is not entirely new, it's an excerpt from the 21 Dec 2018 video I link to below. - W]
The MOP is precision guided primarily using GPS, similar to the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). Yet even the bunker buster variants in that series of weapons are incomparable to the mighty MOP. This precision guidance is thought to allow the MOP to not only hit deeply-buried installations at their weakest points, but it offers the potential to 'layer-in' multiple MOPs on a single pinpoint location—in effect 'digging' down to where the soil, rock, and concrete end and the vital infrastructure begins.
