B-2 Stealth Bomber - Full Documentary 

My late grandfather who raised me was a member of the B-2 team that built it I own his certificate ❤ He was very very proud of it and actually got very emotional when it was brought up. I will always hold this dear to my heart and speak his legacy.

Man, I miss such productions. Simplistic, but with reasonable historical context, simple understanable demonstrations, soothing unimposing background music, easy to understand lector.....no heavy metall, no drama.... just enough details to get somebody hooked into subject

Jack Northrurp in his wheelchair in his late 80s, was taken to a secret location.. probably out at Groom Lake and they showed him a large scale model during the building phase of the B2.. he held it in his hands shaking and he said "Now I know why God has kept me alive so long..." Just writing this bring tears to my eyes.. Jack Northrop is one of my hero's in this life

I had small scale models of every military aircraft from WWII to present. Fixed wing and helicopters. Some I've flown in, and some I watched up close. Even though I spent most of my time on the ground in the Army. Watching these aircraft live are memories I'll never forget. For those who built these great machines. You did good.

As someone else had said.. I too wish all the military docs were like this! No annoying LOUD music/sound effects but still maintains exciting entertainment. very informative & fascinating! Thank you!

Still the most amazing and coolest looking machine to ever fly.

This documentary from 2009 is better than some from today in 2020.

During the early 1980’s, I was a crew chief on the B52 G & H models. When the B-2 came out many of us were absolutely impressed. This video has answered many questions we had about it. Of course we may not truly know if the cones really are underneath the radar absorbing skin. Great video and the narrator is excellent at telling us the story!

Even in 2023 it’s kinda mind blowing that this plane exists, and works so well. Not to mention that it was built in the ‘80s.

I live about 30 miles from Whiteman AFB where most of the B-2s are based, and get to see them fly over quite often. Beautiful and scary at the same time. You don't hear them coming until they turn away and start to climb because the exhaust is on the top side of the wing.

This is such an amazing and strategic bomber B-2. My DH was supposed to work on this when he passed away. I am sure he would have been so thrilled to have been a part of this endeavor.

When I was in preschool I saw one fly over head. One of my most memorable times. I lived around 45 miles from an air base and that was around 20 years ago.

I’ve never come within 10,000 square miles of one of these planes, but my uncle in Kansas City once saw one flying over. He said, “it was easy to see and recognize. I watched it, but it never made a sound.”

One of the best stories about the B-2 has to do with the open display of the aircraft's silhouette at the entrance to the Northrup plant. The outline of the secret plane had been there for all to see for quite sometime but because the media did not know the shape of the bomber, they were unaware that they walked over it every-time they visited the plant - it was in the walkway at the entrance in different colored stones. When the plane was finally shown to the public someone tipped the media off about the existing display on the walkway. If you look at the photo of the B2 At the hangar you can also see that they painted the star on the ramp by using the silhouette of the B2 there also. The workers must have had a great time knowing that was out there all that time and nobody had a clue.

Everytime I see the B-2 in a flyover I get chills of pride

Some things in various order... Northrop first manned Flying Wing prototype, the N1M, dates from 1941 and it already was the successor of a lengthy series of scale models and aerodinamic testbeds. The Horten's design cited by someone was incredibly good, but I really think that Jack and the Horten came to their flying wing designs independently. The first version of Northrop's Flying Wing, the very first XB-35 without vertical fins, was already a pretty stealthy thing. They had serious troubles following it during flight tests, so they designed the first radar reflectors to put on its downside and know what the damn plane was doing. Which reminds me, a sphere is a good radar relector, but it is not the best reflecting geometrical shape, as it only reflects toward the radar the energy that falls exactly on the point perpendicular to it (more precisely, it behaves like point source with a power slightly inferior to the radiation density that it receives multiplied the area). A much better shape is a catadioptric reflector, like the one given by three planes intersecting with 135 degrees solid angles (picture if you will a triangular piramid - aka tetrahedron - remove the faces, add its center and consider the triangles obtained connecting it to the four vertex; each of the four set of three planes so generated is a catadioptric reflector). A catadioptric can reflect near 100% of the radiation it receives on its whole surface toward its source, from any direction (depending on the angle, it may take three reflections to do the trick, and nothing is ever 100% efficient, not even naked metal reflecting radar). A catadioptric behaves like a thinly focusing, very high gain directional antenna targeting the radar with the power it receives from it. As result a catadioptric the size of a basketball has roughly the RCS of a B-52. (And some small examples of these are usually attached to F-35s when they have to mingle with civilian traffic, like when they participate to airshows; Thus, if someone's flashy radar can take an F-35 at an airshow, it is not so revealing). Finally, when the YB-49 was cancelled, Northrop had just started testing a new electronic inertial navigation system - i.e. a fly by wire, I suppose with analog computing and maybe some early digital stuff - that was very promising about getting the yaw instability under control. Personally, I agree with those that suspect that the program was cancelled more because Jack Northrop was not so good at play ball with politics (he was supposed to allow the plane be produced also by other manufacturers, for the sake of "electoral engineering" - yep, it was already a thing, even back in those aulic days - and he did not fully appreciate the subtleties involved) than because of their perceived technical shortcomings.

Great work..excellent presentation and timeline. I appreciate the work you did, and the way you presented quite a large ammount of information in a tight package. Again, thank you..you did all the Airframes proud. Excellent work.

A couple of corrections with regards to the Mosquito. It was made out of wood because of the shortage of aluminium, the stealth factor was an added bonus. It was not just flown at night, missions were 24/7 and ranged from sub hunter killer when fitted out with a repeater 3 pounder cannon, pinpoint target daylight bomber/raider as well as the role of pathfinder for night time bomb runs, Video really underplays what an incredible airplane the Mosquito was..

Truly an incredible air craft until you experience the b2 up close in person you just can't imagine awsome this one is

I seen the B-2 flyover in Washington D.C. on July 4th,2019..it was totally bad ass,this piece of art in the sky was so graceful it was between unreal and point blank to reckon with..Thumbs up..

The DH-98 Mosquito is absolutely awesome! My Gramps flew DH-98 in the RCAF. Flt G.H.Gibbs a true hero.

I was working on B-52s and KC-135s when they were developing these. Hydraulic, pneumatic, and inflight refueling systems.

Proud American here, and a fan of our military industrial complex. It keeps the world safe.

VERY cool looking jet!! LOVE IT

This was new to me, very interesting, thanks for sharing!

15:40 the mosquito flew during the day as well it was a multi purpose fighter bomber, and is credited with some the most difficult raids of most ww2 bombers.

Testing and retesting is the answer to conquering all the problems of radar

Remember all those flying saucer sightings that gave rise to alien rumours in the past? These are the results!

Good video. Makes you wonder what we have in our back pocket, not known to the public, that no one knows about. Strictly speaking, the B2 is old technology.

I wish all US military documentaries were like this.

looks like a piece of origami, saw it over here in Suffolk UK going through it's acrobatic flying, couldn't work out what on earth it was at first and just stood and watched for a while and then it just flew up and off, fascinating

Thank you. I loved this documentary.

I worked on the B2 Flight Control Computers and was extremely proud when I watched the First Flight of this beautiful aircraft...

Whatever the arguments, I just think this is one beautiful looking aircraft and I would love to see one fly.

I was glued to my chair till the End !

Spectacular flying machine-!!

when I was first introduced to modern stealth planes I saw an show on what the Russian paper is all about, it was so different, I took the time to review an English translation of the paper.. It is not about bouncing radio waves back in a different directions, it is about lens'ing the radio waves. The best way I have seen it described is when you look at the shadow of your hand from the sun and you move your fingers together. At a certain point before your fingers touch, the shadow of your fingers touch.

What a beautiful jet !

This great Grandma is in Awe

I grew up in Missouri, not too far from Whiteman and was lucky to get to see these fly every now and then

British WW2 bombers were not "hard to detect" as was suggested in the video. Their unique defensive capabilities stemmed from intense use of electronic countermeasures such as jammers (mandrel, tinsel, airborn cigar and others) and false targets ("window") which hampered German radars and radio communications. Yet, 5% loss of planes in every raid was considered low. Tough times...

Excellent documentary film, many thanks :)

I am very surprised that all this "Secret" & "Classified" information was so openly displayed? But for me, this is the very best video on the subject!

Thanks for video, that what i need!

The b2 was literally jack northrops dream...he advocated really hard for the use of the flying wing...even developed passenger plane flying wings..

The B-2 was just the beginning. The B-21 Raider is the next step in the stealth bombers’ evolution.

I play, but my mind is on point! God bless America!

I am blown away how much info has been declassified on this.

SWEET!

This is thing is 3 decades old and is still scary to know how deadly this platform really is. Nothing is scarier than not knowing when and where death will be coming from. A smart plane with smart (possibly nuclear) bombs that has the signature of a goose.

Every other Bomber: Chonky boi B2: Triangle boi

Thank you for help today

There are always counter measures to counter anti radar detection measures. Its a never ending technological duels.

B1, B2, F117, F-22, F-35. all look like the future to me.

The B-2, A massively costly project, but an example of projects that the military sometimes gets right. A salute to Jack Northrup whose YB-49 was the inspiration and a result of his Genius,

I get to see the B2 everyday. Accompanied with some A-10 warthogs.

The information being presented is at constant war with the music which is hilarious.

I'm glad they on my side USA 🇺🇸

Great upload hello from Australia

The B-2 Spirit is a great airplane and the next bomber will be even better and hopefully do things which will make upgrading the B-2 very beneficial and easy. I never had the opportunity to fly on such an aircraft while in the Air Force, but would have enjoyed being on it like I did with the B-52's, and many other aircraft.

For the price we expect technical wizardry, and we get it👍

My father designed the invisi-plane which was a miracle of science. It was invisible to eye and radar or any other detection method. As soon as we can work out where we left it we'll be rich :)

The German Horton HO9 flying wing bomber design is too lit 🔥

Imagine what they got now, that's not declassified...

Never forget Americans, you are the land of the free, and home of the brave! 🇺🇸

BRAVO, B2!

this is the type of documentary that I can fall asleep to

I saw one of these at an air show a couple years ago. It was wild. I was like, " there goes 1.2 billion dollars" I have no idea how they got it to fly over during the show.

I literally just "WOOOHOOOOed" like Rick flair.

Bloody fantastic

INSANE ENGINEERING. SR72.🇺🇲 B2🇺🇲 A10🇺🇲

'In the history of flight, there has never been a plane more ground-breaking than the B2' Wright brothers might have a slight issue with that!

As incredible as it is. The b52 will outlive it!

NICE VERY MUCH INFORMATIVE

What an amazing aircraft

Absolutely awe inspiring when seen up close, unreal.

The lack of air losses with the B-2 also has to do with the nature of the Iraqi technology. They had a lot, to be sure; but if your enemy knows all about it, you are still at a disadvantage.

I had an older pal who did something on the B-47 and he came back ok. I saw the B1-a at the museum of the Rockies near Denver & my son took the pictures.

Brilliant invention.

Best bomber all time

b-2 is amazing so the b-21 must be a god vehicle.

Truly excellent video. I'm sure the Chinese love it. Good job it is old technology.

Love it! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

B-52 so beautiful. imagine could be in service for 100 years ???

33:17 needs to be its own video. someone should bass boost this and get the lossless music

Majestic

Widzialem go w locie,niesamowicie szybki ponad 5 M.

If they letting us know that we have this, I can only imagine, what they aren't telling us they have.

Like this video just one thing the mosquito flew day and night missions speed was its primary defense the Germans hated the thing

beautiful movies

01:05 that should never be forgotten

I used to wave solder the circuit boards for the B1 avionics testing stations. Massive walk in units. 150 circuit boards@ $30,000 each. Talk about some pride and feeling of accomplishment

I love the B2!

Very nice

when i was young i was eciting about this plane today it still hold on Ps Im russian so im not good in english

I still can’t get over the fact that it’s never even been DETECTED!

It's a privilege to have seen two B2s fly over my house

Very happy to hear about the planes made from bolsa Wood for part of a history homework I got to know a gent that flew them and even described the plane and his mission which was to drop troops behind the enemy lines without getting spotted. I documented this for my homework, to which was going towards my overall history grade rather than sitting for an exam. So I handed this large piiece of work in on time and complete. Only to find it didn't get marked because the teacher said this didn't happen and regarded my homework as fiction not history.

That said, this is my favorite plane of all time.

A Texas condom manufacturer made a product knows as Stealth condoms. The advertising strapline was thus: 'Use a Stealth condom. They'll never see you coming!'