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Battle Stations: B2 Stealth Bomber
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Battle Stations: B2 Stealth Bomber

44 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The B-2 Spirit looks less like a warplane than a flying wedge, and that shape traces back to single-wing glider experiments in Germany in the 1930s, revived through Cold War aviation research in the 1950s and 60s before emerging as a classified American program. This film follows that design lineage from early flying-wing prototypes to the aircraft that first flew in the early 1990s under heavy secrecy. It lays out what the shape and skin coatings actually do: bend radar around the plane rather than reflecting it back, making a machine the size of a small airliner read as nearly invisible on enemy screens. The specs get their own attention, a payload of up to 40,000 pounds of conventional or nuclear bombs, a range of over 6,000 miles without refueling, and more than 130 onboard computers managing flight and targeting. The film treats the B-2 as an engineering answer to a tactical problem: how to strike a target and leave before anyone on the ground knows a plane was there.