{"id":354906,"date":"2026-01-25T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/b-2-spirit-1st-stealth-bomber-of-kind\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:00:17","slug":"why-the-b-2-spirit-is-the-1st-stealth-bomber-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=354906","title":{"rendered":"Why The B\u20112 Spirit Is The 1st Stealth Bomber Of Its Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the <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\/\"  >Northrop B-2 Spirit<\/a><\/span> bomber the first of its kind? Well, put simply, it&#8217;s because no one built a stealth strategic bomber before it, and something had to be the first. That said, the B-2 did not arise in a vacuum. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2048290\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/powerful-lockheed-f-117-nighthawk-was\/\" >stealthy Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, which functioned in practice more like a bomber<\/a><\/span>, came before it, as did the Tacit Blue demonstrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-2 was a generational leap in strategic stealth bombing capabilities and is not be superseded until 2027 when the B-21 is to enter service.<\/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":[396,7038,1455,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-bomber","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\/354906","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=354906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354907,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354906\/revisions\/354907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}