00:00My name is the B2 Spirit, born in California in 1989.
00:03I am a flying wing, no tail, no nose, just a pure curved shape.
00:07I cost 2.1 billion dollars, that is New Zealand's entire annual defense budget,
00:12and last fare of Missouri to the Middle East and back, 19,000 kilometers.
00:15Nobody saw me the entire time.
00:17Every other plane on radar looks like a bus, I look like a golf ball.
00:20Radar hits me and just bounce away.
00:22I am basically invisible.
00:23I carry two bombs, each one weighs as much as four cars,
00:26and each one can punch through a building buried eight floors underground.
00:29In Juni 25, seven of us dropped 14 of these.
00:31Every single one hit, zero planes lost.
00:34Congress originally ordered 132 of me, then they said actually 21 is enough.
00:39Two of those 21 are now gone, so 19 of us are doing the work that was planned for 132.
00:44One more thing, my predecessor, the F-117, got shot down over Serbia by a radar system built in 1961.
00:50The man who shot it down went back to being a baker.
00:52I have never been shot down.
00:53The baker retired.
00:54I am still flying.
00:55The most expensive aircraft ever built, and you have probably never seen one in the sky.
01:00Follow War 2.
01:01Every day, a new weapon, a new story.
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