Stealth Aircraft: Eagles among Sparrows? - B2 Stealth Bomber Documentary

The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, likewise referred to as the Stealth Bomber, is an American hefty strategic bomber, featuring reduced evident stealth modern technology developed for permeating dense anti-aircraft defenses; it is a flying wing design with a team of two. The bomber could set up both old-fashioned as well as thermonuclear weapons, such as eighty 500 pound (230 kg)-course (Mk 82) JDAM Global Placing System-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400 lb (1,100 kg) B83 plutonium bombs. The B-2 is the only recognized airplane that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
Development initially started under the "Advanced Technology Bomber" (ATB) project throughout the Carter management, as well as its expected efficiency was among his factors for the termination of the supersonic B-1A bombing plane. ATB continued during the Reagan management, but worries about delays in its intro caused the reinstatement of the B-1 program too. Program expenses rose throughout development. Created and manufactured by Northrop Grumman, the expense of each airplane balanced US$ 737 million (in 1997 dollars). Overall purchase costs averaged $929 million each plane, that includes extra components, equipment, retrofitting, as well as software program assistance. The complete program cost consisting of growth, design and testing, averaged $2.1 billion each airplane in 1997.