{"id":42055,"date":"2024-05-12T22:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-wont-fix-damaged-b-2\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:03:39","slug":"why-the-us-air-force-wont-fix-its-damaged-b-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=42055","title":{"rendered":"Why The US Air Force Won&#8217;t Fix Its Damaged B-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-2-spirit-bomber\/\">Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit<\/a> is one of the most potent symbols of American Air Force power projection. However, the B-2&#8217;s fleet size is limited, and it seems that the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">US Air Force&#8217;s<\/a> limited fleet of B-2s is set to get a little smaller. It has just been revealed that one of the B-2 Spirits will not be upgraded but will be divested, reducing the fleet size to 19. This comes after it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-northrop-grumman-7-billion-b-2-stealth-bomber-contract\/\">Northrop Grumman was awarded a massive $7 billion contract to overhaul the B-2 fleet<\/a> and keep them flying into the 2030s.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One B-2 Spirit has been damaged beyond economic repair and will be divested reducing the fleet to 19 operational stealth bombers.<\/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":[396,7038,1455,240,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-bomber","category-north-america","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42055","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=42055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42057,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42055\/revisions\/42057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}