We Made a Mistake We Can’t Ever Fix: The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Shortage Makes Russia and China Smile

We Made a Mistake We Can’t Ever Fix: The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Shortage Makes Russia and China Smile

The B-2 Spirit is the only aircraft on earth that can slip through modern air defenses and drop the 30,000-pound bunker-buster that struck Iran’s deepest underground nuclear sites — and the entire fleet numbers 19 aircraft. When the United States needed to hit the enrichment plant buried under a mountain at Fordow, and when the B-2 flew the penetrating missions of Operation Epic Fury against Iran earlier in 2026, it did so because nothing else i…