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B-2 Stealth Bomber’s Action-Packed 2025: Secret Strikes, High-Tech Upgrades & Pentagon Drama

March–May 2025: six B-2 Spirit bombers deployed to Diego Garcia to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, marking the bomber’s first combat employment in years. June 21–22, 2025: seven B-2s launched from Whiteman AFB for Operation Midnight Hammer, striking Iran’s Fordow and Natanz facilities after an 18-hour flight with multiple refuelings and dropping 14 GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Simultaneously, a U.S. Navy submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles to Isfahan to destroy surface infrastructure. By June 23, 2025, the B-2s had returned to Whiteman AFB, capping a mission described as the largest B-2 strike in history and the second-longest

22 July 2025

2025 Fighter Jet Revolution: New Stealth Fighters, Global Deals, and Sky-High Showdowns

China publicly unveiled the Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter in 2025, with at least two J-35 prototypes seen at the SAC aircraft plant signaling low-rate production and a land-based J-35A variant. An upgraded J-15T naval fighter was revealed, featuring new indigenous engines, catapult launch capability for China’s carrier Fujian, an AESA radar, and compatibility with PL-10 and PL-15 missiles. The United States unveiled the F-47 NGAD in March 2025, Boeing winning the contract to build the world’s first crewed sixth-generation fighter, with a projected fleet of 220–250 NGADs and advanced AI copilots and modular design. Turkey’s TF-X Kaan completed its maiden

14 July 2025

Aircraft Comparison · Defense Technology · Fighter Jets · Global Security · Military Aviation · NYSE:BA · NYSE:LMT

F-22 Raptor: America’s Unmatched Stealth Air Superiority Fighter

The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation stealth air-superiority fighter that first flew in 1997 and achieved Initial Operational Capability in December 2005, with 187 production aircraft completed by 2012. It can sustain supersonic flight without afterburner, achieving supercruise at speeds above Mach 1.5. In standard configuration it carries eight internally mounted air-to-air weapons: six AIM-120C AMRAAMs in the main bay and two AIM-9 Sidewinders in the side bays, plus an internal M61A2 20mm cannon. Two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 engines provide approximately 35,000 lbf thrust each with 2D thrust-vectoring nozzles for post-stall maneuvers. The F-22 has a service ceiling above

17 June 2025

Air Power · Aviation · F-22 Raptor · Military · NYSE:LMT · Stealth