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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