Why Did Northrop Build The B-2 Bomber With Crew Rest Areas?

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit was built to do the kind of missions that may seem impossible until you remember that the United States Air Force is capable of refueling aircraft in midair for days at a time. When a stealth bomber launches from Missouri, disappears into radio silence, meets tankers over the ocean, and then slips calmly into defended airspace, time becomes an enemy as dangerous as the radar. For an aircraft to be able to fly silently into a combat zone, drop weapons, and fly home undetected, it needs an advanced endurance system, and that is why the engineers and Northrop Grumman prioritized such a system when they were designing the aircraft.