Strange career nonetheless. When it first came out in November 1988 it was meant to strike command posts and military reserves deep behind enemy lines in the Warsaw Pact. All it did was basically cameo appearances in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq until they came at the center of the world's stage a few days ago. Trump's decision to send them might have to do with the need to make the b2s profitable.

how would they be profitable?
US doesn't sell them and no more are being made

Russian AA is so shit and blind they could have just sent a biplane. S-400 or however the vodka is spilled is only good at exploding on the ground or crashing in to apartments.

>>212096731
don’t diss they can down commercial airliners pretty good

>>212096668 (OP)
They "failed' the mission in Iran but think about it. Trump don't want to piss off Putin but at the same time must obey Israel. Hence he sends the bomber as a performative gesture. It's even possible he leaked the attack to Iran via Russia beforehand.

>>212096815
What's the point

>>212096668 (OP)
He just did something for show that turned into a mess and now he declares that he’s winning and only haters deny that if you don’t see he is winning with his 4d chess your are either stupid or against him, just like with the tariffs or doge. This is his only shtick and he does it for the angry plebs. Literally.

>>212096668 (OP)
the point of those planes is that they're hard to track on radar, good for sneaking behind enemy lines and wrecking important targets
the countries the US tends to smack around rarely have air defenses though, and even when they do, they usually destroy those very early on, so the whole advantage the B2 has becomes irrelevant

HOWEVER they still use them constantly, you only recently hearing about their use doesn't mean they weren't flying sorties regularly for years, it just means it's been propagandized on social media a lot recently, and you fell for it
the US also doesn't and will never sell the B2s, where are you getting this "make them profitable" meme? they also have a bunch of mothballed warships, much more expensive than any plane, but they're not "putting them to work" either

>>212096668 (OP)
it looks so cool though

>>212096668 (OP)
It couldn't survive against Serbs, straight to trash it goes.

>>212096668 (OP)
insane that in the 80s people made shit like that while today companies struggle to make a car that doesn't rust after 4 winters

>>212097926
that was F117 mi hermano, completely different plane.

>>212097926
friendly reminder that you shot down one-1 f-117 because you focused on it while you where constantly bombed by every cold war nato plane at that time including dinosaurs like f-104 from italy, the last active flights of them, and you didnt hit any of them. so where exactly is your bragging point?

>>212097970
Just because it looks cool doesn't necessarily mean it's also exceptionally good. There's a reason america stopped making those over 20 years ago

>>212098060
b52 looks outdated af, but the reason they keep them is they know most enemies dont have anti air or they are so confident they can strike it out while the b52's are en route. b2 are only used for supprise bombings and such.
google the first desert war, thats how its done. rarely except from that time has nato/west/coallition ever said this is it, you crossed the line and we will now go full retard on you. it was effectively over in 48h. in this scenario anti air is gone in the first hour, then the b52's get to work...

>>212097785
Didn't mean to sell them, obviously they will never be for sale, rather to make them useful for once since a single unit is like 3 billion usd iirc

>>212098240
already paid off and each hour of operation takes like 80 hours of maintenance
militaries aren't businesses where they HAVE to keep their assets working to generate revenue

>>212096668 (OP)
>make the b2s profitable
they won't be exported, so that's not happening
still an extremely cool plane

>>212098376
>80 hours of maintendance
thats an inflated number. its the hours requred to make every plane as good as new after every flight on an average, and its often done so meaning that every plane is still as good as new. it doesnt in any way tell you about the actual field service or turnaround rate of these planes, it can be minutes because they are well maintained and everything just work. the 80h++ service will be done once the operation is over.
east block often advertice their planes on the lowest minimum maintendance, the problem with it is they never see more than minimum maintendance.

gonna suck when china rolls out its copy. from the pakistan india flare up it turns out their stuff actually works

>>212098604
Americans have found some crashed UFO in Nevada no doubt to be able to build such sci-fi shit, I won't buy the much engineering meme.

>>212098871
Russians have some wild designs too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9sIkvwVkN0

>>212098870
you're probably the first us flag I see on here that takes the chinese threat serious and isn't coping about how all their stuff is trash.

>>212098932
I like this thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYtfpPkQqE

>>212099012
offcourse their stuff works, its not temu. but at the same time it is, how good does it work? can it fight off a western unit? so far they can only do it by numbers and thats not really a good thing.