Talk:B-2 Spirit
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Having been originally copied from [1] (http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/B_2_Spirit.html), this article reads a bit much like a press release. Could probably use some work to tone it down. -- nknight 15:00 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
Yeah indeed this article is awful! Chinaren.com 22:36, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Be Bold. How about helping improve things yourself? Making language less press-release like doesn't even require much research. It should be easy to search for other B-2 material in order to gt a more balanced view pretty easily. You're a Wikipedia editor just like everyone else ... the easiest way to fix a page is to fix it. —Morven 00:55, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Uh...why was this page moved? RADICALBENDER★ 02:56, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I moved it because it is better known as the B-2 Bomber than the B-2 Spirit.
Whitfield Larrabee
- Er, no. The official name is B-2 Spirit. B-2 Bomber can redirect to B-2 Spirit. RADICALBENDER★ 15:36, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"This aircraft was mainly built to be used in a Nuclear War, not peacetime."
Isn't this a tautology? A combat aircraft like a bomber, by definition, is only employed in a war setting.
I found the third paragraph of the Combat section confusing. Does this just state that the plane only needs refueling without other maintenance between missions? Is this different from other planes? ArrowmanCoder 17:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- No, it refers to the fact that the B-2 is based exclusively in the continental U.S., and that Operations at Diego Garcia marked the first time that the aircraft had staged from elsewhere. It's also impressive to think that the aircraft flew from the U.S. to afganistan, dropped bombs, and then flew down to the Indian Ocean. -Lommer | talk 22:53, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
aircraft cost
this page used to list the cost of the aircraft based on total project cost / total planes produced. I didn't spot any cost information this time (not that I looked very hard), but does anyone have a value for what it would cost to actually build a single plane excluding R&D costs?