{"id":154830,"date":"2024-12-05T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/home-usaf-b-2-spirit-bombers-5-fast-facts-whiteman-air-force-base\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:00:16","slug":"home-of-usaf-b-2-spirit-bombers-5-fast-facts-on-whiteman-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=154830","title":{"rendered":"Home Of USAF B-2 Spirit Bombers: 5 Fast Facts On Whiteman Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteman.af.mil\/About\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/886024\/b-2-spirit\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Whiteman Air Force Base<\/a> is the only home base for the world&#8217;s fleet of operational stealth strategic bombers (made up of 19             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"540004\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-2-spirit-bomber\/\"  >B-2 Spirit<\/a><\/span> bombers). But there&#8217;s more to Whiteman than the B-2s; among other aircraft, it is home to the famous Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (aka Warthog). The B-2 and             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"664838\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>A-10 Warthog<\/span><\/span> are two of the most iconic aircraft in service with the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> today (although         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036413\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/a-10-warthog-future-analysis\/\" >the A-10 is expected to fully retire in the coming years<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiteman AFB is currently unique for being exclusively home to all of the world&#8217;s stealth strategic bombing capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7038,408,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-history","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154831,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154830\/revisions\/154831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}