Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on what it takes to maintain and operate the most expensive aircraft in the US Military inventory, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Voice, text and video ...

The bomber can zip through the skies at Mach 2.05 (1,560 mph), making it the fastest and heaviest aircraft capable of reaching that speed. It's a beast of a plane, too, as the Tu-160 can carry a ...

The timely introduction of the PAK DA bomber appears to be an unlikely prospect. While the U.S. Air Force continues to make progress with its next-generation B-21 stealth bomber program ...

For the price, the U.S. Air Force bought itself a truly unique and remarkable plane, a pioneer in the field of stealth bomber technology with a unique and unmistakable angular design optimized to ...

A British-made stealth plane has claimed a new world record for the longest continuous flight, spending 67 days in the stratosphere. The unmanned Aalto Zephyr, which was built in Farnborough ...

WASHINGTON — The B-21 Raider took its first test flight on Friday, moving the futuristic warplane closer to becoming the nation’s next nuclear weapons stealth bomber. The Raider flew in ...

The goal involving the next-gen fighter was created in view of People’s Liberation Army weaknesses against the American B-21 stealth bomber in a conflict within the first island chain ...

not that the plane is entirely stealthy all of the time. The way a jet is employed, such as if munitions are carried externally in what has been described for F-35s as "beast mode," can compromise ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...

But keeping the massive, bat-winged plane from being detectable by radar is no easy task. It's not cheap, either. Overhauling a stealth bomber, which must be done every seven years, costs $60 ...

Though the advent of the incoming B-21 Raider sixth-generation stealth bomber threatens to replace the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers, the B-52 is projected to remain in service. In fact ...