{"id":347199,"date":"2026-01-11T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-b-2-bomber-wont-be-retired-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:00:17","slug":"why-the-b-2-bomber-wont-be-retired-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=347199","title":{"rendered":"Why The B-2 Bomber Won\u2019t Be Retired Anytime Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the Northrop B-2 Spirit be retiring anytime soon? The answer somewhat hinges on what &#8216;soon&#8217; means, but these aircraft are currently undergoing their mid-life upgrade and are not expected to retire until the 2030s or 2040s. The Air Force is unlikely to divest its B-2s until after the B-1 Lancers retire,<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037020\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-key-features-set-b-21-apart-b-2-spirit\/\" >and the USAF has sufficient B-21s to take over<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-2 Spirit&#8217;s retirement appears delayed from the late 2020s to the 2030s, although it might serve until the 2040s.<\/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":[396,7038,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347199","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=347199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347200,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347199\/revisions\/347200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}