{"id":437317,"date":"2026-05-25T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-b-2-spirit-s-shape-engine-ducts-hide-bomber-heat-sinking-sensors\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:00:19","slug":"how-the-b-2-spirits-s-shaped-engine-ducts-hide-a-bomber-from-heat-seeking-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=437317","title":{"rendered":"How The B-2 Spirit&#8217;s S-Shaped Engine Ducts Hide A Bomber From Heat-Seeking Sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key features of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2042563\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-effective-b-2-spirit-bomber-stealth-capabilities\/\" >the Northrop B-2 Spirit that helps it reduce its Radar Cross-Section (RCS)<\/a><\/span>is its S-shaped serpentine engine ducts. To a lesser extent, they also aid in the aircraft&#8217;s Infrared (IR) or thermal signature. While ducts were a major leap in stealth engine design when they entered service on the B-2, they are now expected on stealth aircraft. The F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II, the Chengdu J-20, and the B-21 Raider all have them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-2&#8217;s distinctive exhausts are designed to hide the aircraft from both detection by reducing RCS and by reducing its infrared signature.<\/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":[396,7038,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437317","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=437317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437318,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437317\/revisions\/437318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}