nuclear bombs really far inside russia. the idea was it could beat radar for at least a while before it was detected. it could be deep inside soviet airspace where it could drop nuclear bombs on the interior of the soviet union. that s why they made this plane. and as exciting as that might sound for an end-of-the-world nuclear doomsday mission, missions like that don t come up very often in real life. the b-2 bomber was obviously never used for a mission like that in real life. i mean the b-2 bomber does have these fantastic, mind bending capabilities, but the missions it was designed for don t really occur in nature. they don t occur in modern warfare. so the b-2 doesn t get used very much in modern warfare. in fact, believe it or not, the b-2 bomber has been used in actual combat a total of five times. five times.
any u.s. adversary anywhere in the world that there are sucht pilots and planes that can start the day just north of tight wad, missouri and end up at your house anywhere on earth if need be that same day. so, again, this happened on wednesday. it was announced by the pentagon on thursday. you know, it was a busy time. a lot going on at the end of the week last week in terms of the last days of the obama administration, preparations for inauguration of the new president, so this remarkable military offensive didn t get that much attention. military.com wrote, this lead about the mission, quote, the rarely used b-2 stealth bomber carried out massive strikes against two isis camps in libya on wednesday in what was almost certainly the last combat mission specifically authorized by president barack obama. this is from military.com. published that on thursday, the