AIRCRAFT: B-2
- TYPE: strategic bomber and missile carrying airplane
- MAKER: Northrop
- SPAN: 172 ft.
- LENGTH: 69 ft.
- HEIGHT: 17 ft.
- WING AREA: not revieled
- WEIGHT: maximum takeoff of 371,000 lb.
- POWERPLANT: four 19,000 lb. thrust General Electric F118-GE-100 non-afterburning turbofans
- PERFORMANCE: maximum speed 475 miles/h., opperational radius of 3,800 miles
- ARMAMENT: carried in two bays located side by side in the lower fuselage, maximum weight of 80,500 lb. (36,515
kg.) of disposable stores, each bay is thought to accomidate one eight-round rotary strategic launcher for a total of 16
Boeing AGM-131 SRAM-II missiles or 1.1-megaton B83 thermonuclear free-fall bombs; alternate loads are 20
megaton-range B61 thermonuclear free fall bombs, or a large number of smaller bombs
- CREW: 2 or 3
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