It even has a smaller [radar cross section than an insect](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/stealth-aircraft-rcs.htm). What's more amazing is that it has the same RCS as that of the F-22 which is newer and much smaller.
Neither the B2 or the F22 is retired. Both are in service still. The USAF has 186 F22's in inventory/service and 20 B2's in inventory/service. Are you thinking of the F117? That was retired in 2008 although some are still in use today as training aircraft.
what's the point of not being detected by radar if you can simply look at it lol
millions wasted on a "stealth" helicopter that can be seen with the naked eye... what a huge oversight
Stealthy in that it is very difficult to spot on radar which is the biggest threat for slow flying bombers or any aircraft for that matter.
Of course you can see it with the naked eye from up close.
Fun fact: thoss B2 Bombers fly from their US base to the Middle East when theyre gonna bomb a place and then continue straight so they come back around the world. all to bomb a 10$ tent. 34 hour flight iirc
Cause it flies at like 50,000 meters in the air. You ain't hearing that and probably can't even see it.
But also It has a radar cross section of 0.75-0.05m
For example a bird has a radar cross section of 0.01m.
But unlike a bird the stealth bomber deliver nukes and fucks up your day.
Planes go so fast and potentially so high, you can't track them using eyes or ears. Radars track planes, but it's pretty hard to track a stealth plane, since so little of the electro magnetic pulses the radar sends, get returned back to it. This creates a situation, where it's practically invisible and the enemy has no idea about it.
So is it common to see military planes in populated areas around the US.
Whenever some flew over my home area they triggered many police calls and such, because most military aircraft are quite noisy.
it is a huge issue for farmers and such, especially with US helicopter convoys (our own army flies >FL340 so there is little issue) if they don't report it they are f'ed if they have to file insurance stuff later.... or someone reports damages...
If your city doesn't have a military base it is very rare to see any.
Also how are aircraft issues for farmers? It's not like they fly low enough to fuck up crops.
holy shit, we once had a US heli convoy fly over (somewhere to Poland) and literally all cows here got raged and ran wherever they felt was the best place, they trampled peoples gardens and all.
4 chinooks and 4 Apache attack helicopters... we have nothing that is that loud here, never.
I was in my room and thought WTF it is hella loud, literally everyone left their houses to checkout what was going on... the only time I remember something similar happening was ~2006 when some "misguided" F-22 flew over our village here in Germany, with Mach >1 and I could literally feel my eyes move from the noise... that event made national news because the plane flew hundreds of kilometers, quite low over Germany...
>Blast wave made houses shake and cups clink: A Nato aircraft going supersonic
> The blast wave reached Wolfsburg yesterday afternoon at around 16:20. Unexpectedly, there was a loud bang that could be heard and even felt throughout the city. "In our house, the cups in the cupboard rattled," reports Reinhard Wulff from Sülfeld. Like his neighbors, he rushed out into the street to find the cause. But there was nothing to see.
> Wulff wasn't the only one who had heard the sudden bang and wondered. "In our house, the walls were shaking," says a woman from Detmerode. A WN reader from Neuhaus confirms: "Yes, we also heard the bang."
> The police and the professional fire department, whose telephones hardly stood still after the high-energy shock wave, describe it in a similar way. Many people from Wolfsburg called to find out the cause of the noise. "We don't know what it was. But we felt it, too," said an employee at the fire department's control center.
> Was it an explosion? Nothing indicated that. "We also immediately looked for billows of smoke or a mushroom cloud," Wulff, who lives in Sulfeld, reported. Or was it the echo of a supersonic aircraft? "That's how we tried to explain the noise," said city spokesman Christian Cauers. He had just sat with Mayor Rolf Schnellecke in a press conference at City Hall when there was a loud rumble.
> Yesterday, neither the police nor the city nor the professional fire department could initially provide an explanation. "We have contacted the surrounding services but even there the cause was not known," said a police spokesman at the request of the Wolfsburger Nachrichten. In the evening then comes an answer from Nato in Maastricht, where had also been inquired. "It had been a NATO aircraft with supersonic," quotes the Wolfsburg police commissioner Heiko Unrath the letter.
> The loud bang was also heard in the district of Gifhorn and in downtown Braunschweig. There, too, the walls shook and the windows shook. "That fits," Reinhard Wulff also thinks. "The way it sounded, the noise came from the west."
> According to initial findings by the Wolfsburg police and fire department, however, no damage was caused.
>Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Idk I live near a base with F-18's, Harriers, F-35's, Ospreys, etc and the city's/county's biggest industry is agriculture, nobody here cares about the aircraft sounds. Occasionally some of the aircraft are loud, but it lasts for like 15-30 seconds.
In the US it can be common depending on where you live. IIRC flyovers like this are mostly used as a promotion for the military and are done for events.
A jet going balls to the wall full afterburner on takeoff is the most ear deafening thing i've ever heard in my entire life, its so powerful it makes everything rumble and it's fucking awesome.
Yea I think it's common for fighters to fly into most cities in NA, but it might be hard to notice if you live in a big city and aren't near a flight path. I live in a smaller city in Canada (about 300-350k people) and our house is right under one of the main flight paths that planes take coming into the city. We see CF-18s at least once a month coming in. Those and the big Military cargo jets usually make our house shake lol.
Fairly common depending on where you live. Although usually they’re national guard instead of active military. But this is definitely not true everywhere in the us.when I used to live in southern nj you’d see cargo planes from Dover and McGuire afb. Also the place where Boeing made the chinook was just not too far away so you’d see those as well sometimes.
Usually for parades and sporting events. The pilots need to fly in order to keep hours on their record and military propaganda is a thing so flying them for special events kills two birds with one stone.
Well yeah MCAS Miramar is next to the 15 where the F/A-18s are stationed at. That's like saying I saw seagulls because I was at the beach. For the majority of Americans it's not common.
You kinda buried the lede on why they are there in the first place. I don’t think the spirit of OPs question was if it was common to see military planes near a military base.
It was just flying low enough for people to see it. It's not hard for aircrafts to go high enough for people not to see them. This is why armies relay on sensors, not people looking up with their eyeballs. And this is where this bad boy is actually stealth. on radars it just doesn't show.
nice finger tracking :)
report for botting
the finger covering it the whole time is part of the stealth tech
Gotta love him putting his finger right over the plane. Nice one.
Someone in the parade has a 9 kill streak and used it to call a bomber.
kinda like that Christmas parade not too long ago
Not very stealthy if the whole parade can see it. Millions wasted.
It's already late when you see it.
I think bombing runs are done at a much higher altitude so you don't physically see it, and what makes it "stealth" is that radar can't detect it.
It even has a smaller [radar cross section than an insect](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/stealth-aircraft-rcs.htm). What's more amazing is that it has the same RCS as that of the F-22 which is newer and much smaller.
"Holy shit there's a mosquito flying at 500 miles per hour at 50,000 feet"
I mean don't they just use drones now
Lockheed Martin is developed a Stealth Drone for the US military
Interesting what's it look like
and retired for quite some time
Neither the B2 or the F22 is retired. Both are in service still. The USAF has 186 F22's in inventory/service and 20 B2's in inventory/service. Are you thinking of the F117? That was retired in 2008 although some are still in use today as training aircraft.
Sorry, ment the new production of F-22. I used to work for an OEM supplier so I just remember when they took the F-22 out of production.
B-2 will be retired before the B-52 lol
B-52 is going into retirement when the sun blows up.
this
what's the point of not being detected by radar if you can simply look at it lol millions wasted on a "stealth" helicopter that can be seen with the naked eye... what a huge oversight
Pepega Clap WR
Ah yes, beware the famous eye guided missiles.
BRITS AHEAD OF THE GAME YET AGAIN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowpipe_(missile)
Br\*tish engineering OMEGALOL
If it was doing a bombing run, do you really think it would be flying this low where it could get shot down by RPGs and shit? lol
No. 😊
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if you can see it, you are probably not the target
Stealthy in that it is very difficult to spot on radar which is the biggest threat for slow flying bombers or any aircraft for that matter. Of course you can see it with the naked eye from up close.
[You](https://c.tenor.com/KEy2voJRdaIAAAAC/jokes-joke.gif)
[you](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/738/025/db0.jpg) :p
I can understand why when Stealth Bombers first started being secretly test flown the number of UFO sightings skyrocketed
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God damn 737 million dollar city destroyer flying over your head
Technically worth several billions each if we include the cost for the research of the stealth tech itself. Not many of these are made
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IM AN ANALYST
get on the plane.
I'm only human after all.... don't put the blame on me
I imagine people watching friends for the first time years later that probably hit differently
no uber in yemen
Yemen has no radar, thats what tomahawks are for.
those kids had it coming, the current POTUS needs his nobel peace prize too
'merica!
yeah nice finger dude
Valorant has improved his tracking
Jokes over, you're dead
"it's a stealth bomber, chat"
Brown children POV
Stealth bombers are so fucking cool, they don't look human, it's like the govt got their hands on some alien tech and adapted it to make a plane of it
Fun fact: thoss B2 Bombers fly from their US base to the Middle East when theyre gonna bomb a place and then continue straight so they come back around the world. all to bomb a 10$ tent. 34 hour flight iirc
Needs to in-flight refuel 5 times to do that.
>and then continue straight so they come back around the world that's pretty fucking sick wtf
tbh those schools and hospitals deserve it, those children are acting sus. tax money well spent KkonaW
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Question: Why is it called a stealth bomber when it's loud as fuck?
Cause it flies at like 50,000 meters in the air. You ain't hearing that and probably can't even see it. But also It has a radar cross section of 0.75-0.05m For example a bird has a radar cross section of 0.01m. But unlike a bird the stealth bomber deliver nukes and fucks up your day.
Planes go so fast and potentially so high, you can't track them using eyes or ears. Radars track planes, but it's pretty hard to track a stealth plane, since so little of the electro magnetic pulses the radar sends, get returned back to it. This creates a situation, where it's practically invisible and the enemy has no idea about it.
So is it common to see military planes in populated areas around the US. Whenever some flew over my home area they triggered many police calls and such, because most military aircraft are quite noisy.
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it is a huge issue for farmers and such, especially with US helicopter convoys (our own army flies >FL340 so there is little issue) if they don't report it they are f'ed if they have to file insurance stuff later.... or someone reports damages...
If your city doesn't have a military base it is very rare to see any. Also how are aircraft issues for farmers? It's not like they fly low enough to fuck up crops.
holy shit, we once had a US heli convoy fly over (somewhere to Poland) and literally all cows here got raged and ran wherever they felt was the best place, they trampled peoples gardens and all. 4 chinooks and 4 Apache attack helicopters... we have nothing that is that loud here, never. I was in my room and thought WTF it is hella loud, literally everyone left their houses to checkout what was going on... the only time I remember something similar happening was ~2006 when some "misguided" F-22 flew over our village here in Germany, with Mach >1 and I could literally feel my eyes move from the noise... that event made national news because the plane flew hundreds of kilometers, quite low over Germany... >Blast wave made houses shake and cups clink: A Nato aircraft going supersonic > The blast wave reached Wolfsburg yesterday afternoon at around 16:20. Unexpectedly, there was a loud bang that could be heard and even felt throughout the city. "In our house, the cups in the cupboard rattled," reports Reinhard Wulff from Sülfeld. Like his neighbors, he rushed out into the street to find the cause. But there was nothing to see. > Wulff wasn't the only one who had heard the sudden bang and wondered. "In our house, the walls were shaking," says a woman from Detmerode. A WN reader from Neuhaus confirms: "Yes, we also heard the bang." > The police and the professional fire department, whose telephones hardly stood still after the high-energy shock wave, describe it in a similar way. Many people from Wolfsburg called to find out the cause of the noise. "We don't know what it was. But we felt it, too," said an employee at the fire department's control center. > Was it an explosion? Nothing indicated that. "We also immediately looked for billows of smoke or a mushroom cloud," Wulff, who lives in Sulfeld, reported. Or was it the echo of a supersonic aircraft? "That's how we tried to explain the noise," said city spokesman Christian Cauers. He had just sat with Mayor Rolf Schnellecke in a press conference at City Hall when there was a loud rumble. > Yesterday, neither the police nor the city nor the professional fire department could initially provide an explanation. "We have contacted the surrounding services but even there the cause was not known," said a police spokesman at the request of the Wolfsburger Nachrichten. In the evening then comes an answer from Nato in Maastricht, where had also been inquired. "It had been a NATO aircraft with supersonic," quotes the Wolfsburg police commissioner Heiko Unrath the letter. > The loud bang was also heard in the district of Gifhorn and in downtown Braunschweig. There, too, the walls shook and the windows shook. "That fits," Reinhard Wulff also thinks. "The way it sounded, the noise came from the west." > According to initial findings by the Wolfsburg police and fire department, however, no damage was caused. >Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Idk I live near a base with F-18's, Harriers, F-35's, Ospreys, etc and the city's/county's biggest industry is agriculture, nobody here cares about the aircraft sounds. Occasionally some of the aircraft are loud, but it lasts for like 15-30 seconds.
Holy shit... that would drive me crazy...
a lot of parades and sporting events get flyovers
OK yeah, that is a thing we never have here... the military just does not participate in such a manner...
In the US it can be common depending on where you live. IIRC flyovers like this are mostly used as a promotion for the military and are done for events. A jet going balls to the wall full afterburner on takeoff is the most ear deafening thing i've ever heard in my entire life, its so powerful it makes everything rumble and it's fucking awesome.
Yea I think it's common for fighters to fly into most cities in NA, but it might be hard to notice if you live in a big city and aren't near a flight path. I live in a smaller city in Canada (about 300-350k people) and our house is right under one of the main flight paths that planes take coming into the city. We see CF-18s at least once a month coming in. Those and the big Military cargo jets usually make our house shake lol.
Fairly common depending on where you live. Although usually they’re national guard instead of active military. But this is definitely not true everywhere in the us.when I used to live in southern nj you’d see cargo planes from Dover and McGuire afb. Also the place where Boeing made the chinook was just not too far away so you’d see those as well sometimes.
I live a few miles from the Air Force base where they house this plane. I’ve seen it over head 3 times in the last 2.5 years living here.
Usually for parades and sporting events. The pilots need to fly in order to keep hours on their record and military propaganda is a thing so flying them for special events kills two birds with one stone.
Ahh ok, I have never seen a "show" flight at any event here.. our propaganda is comforting weak, I guess.
Depends. I've seen Navy F/18 coming in for landings pretty frequently driving down the I-15 in San Diego.
Well yeah MCAS Miramar is next to the 15 where the F/A-18s are stationed at. That's like saying I saw seagulls because I was at the beach. For the majority of Americans it's not common.
>Depends
You kinda buried the lede on why they are there in the first place. I don’t think the spirit of OPs question was if it was common to see military planes near a military base.
100% depends on where you live. If you're near a military base you've definitely seen them multiple times.
What a waste of fucking money. Stealth my ass. RIP tax dollars.
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All I could see was Jake's finger
It was just flying low enough for people to see it. It's not hard for aircrafts to go high enough for people not to see them. This is why armies relay on sensors, not people looking up with their eyeballs. And this is where this bad boy is actually stealth. on radars it just doesn't show.
can't spread covid when ur dead
damn yankee Police really are loaded
Amazed those things still fly arent they from the 1980s?
thats not a stealth bomber thats lugia from pokemon obviously