Bomber B-2: failure for 2 billion dollars

Northrop B-2 "Spirit" - one of the most controversial and expensive aircraft in the world aviation. Called to bypass the enemy’s air defenses due to its “invisibility”, it was never used for its intended purpose, which caused endless debate about the practical use of the stealth technology.

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[NEXUS]

And already there is a draft strategist B-3 ... and what its price will be a very big question. And judging by the latest projects, starting with the Raptor, such scams are not very cheap for US taxpayers.

[Dead duck]

Here people are sawing money .... Serdyukov resting

[turbris]

But still, the device is very interesting in layout, albeit very expensive, given its large payload, as a carrier of cruise missiles is very decent. But why was it to be made “invisible” if it was designed for operations only outside of the air defense zones at subsonic speed, the developers were good at it.

[antivirus]

there is a supply of money - conducted research, got results.
TU144, Concords and others in the world were. there were many different lotions in each generation and a separate design. somewhere there are failures, but the mattresses have enough money.
TO SAVE PROPORTIONS IN THE USA BETWEEN DIFFERENT GROUPS GIVE MONEY, AS WE HAVE GIVEN GRANTS AND OTHER LOSSES

[ImPerts]

From 500 million to 2 billion. It turns out this is an old disease, not only with us)))

[vlad007]

It is unclear what the “flying wing” scheme gives in comparison with the classical scheme with vertical elements - was the game worth the candle?

[turbris]

The "flying wing" scheme provides advantages in terms of payload, and handling is said to be improving, but there are drawbacks. This is not a new scheme; the Germans during the war still had something similar in development. And in the USA, I don’t remember now, but there were flying vehicles according to this scheme.

[Bronevick]

Manageability is just getting worse, due to the lack of a tail rudder. It is controlled only by the mechanization of the wing. It is not very agile, but the bomb load is high.

[t7310]

XP-79B and Horten 229

[misti1973]

This is nothing machine. But a garbage can called F-117 is definitely a failure!

[turbris]

A terribly scary plane with subsonic speed and 4 bombs, a bunch of restrictions when piloting, it was not in vain that it was removed from service. But it was he who doubted it, when implementing the idea of ​​"invisibility" - absolute nonsense on which fabulous money is spent. In this case, ground-based air defense systems are much cheaper; it is easier to develop ground-based air defense systems that will destroy these "invisibles" than to develop and create the "invisibility" itself.

[Terenin]

I realized that this powerful container can only be used in perfect weather, an ideal take-off and landing strip and so that no one dares interfere with beautifully dropping bombs ...