The prize of B-2 "Spirit" bomber is huge by the same reason than SR-71 "Blackbird" prizes are high

B-2 "Spirit"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The prize of flight-hour of the B-2 "Spirit" bomber is extremely high because those airplanes are unique pieces of military technology. STEALTH-bombers are the most effective and frightened military machines. Those extreme killing-machines are planned by using same philosophy, what is used in the SR-71 "Blackbird" ultra-fast recon plane. STEALTH aircraft are unique designs, what have special fuel and tanker connectors, and they probably have unique airborne refueling aircraft and unique chemical structure of fuel. That means that if somebody steals that aircraft, they would not make anything with it. B-2 "Spirit" has the capacity to strike its targets with long-range STEALTH-cruise missiles or tactical smart guided nuclear or conventional weapons like GBU-32 bombs and stand-off missiles.

X-47B
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The truth is that STEALTH-bombers would in some missions wanted to replace with other military systems, what is cheaper, smaller and more effective than those strategic bombers. The problem of strategic bombers is that they are very large, and they need large runways. That's why the enemy could strike against those runways, and they also see if the planes are on the base by using satellites. One of those new style weapon systems is a cruise missile, what can refuel during the flight, and this means that those missiles can cruise independently in an atmosphere, and they can equip with landing gears or those weapons can fly in the cargo-planes if they wanted to return to the base for service.

This gives SAC more capacity to strike against any target on Earth by long distance. The conventional B-52 bomber can shoot those missiles from friendly airspace, and they can be refueled by fighters, what has refueling pack or normal tanker aircraft. And if the strike would be canceled, those missiles can be called back, and they can be returned to the base.

The BGM-109 "Tomahawk" might be launched by the same platforms that are used with BQM-109 drones, and those drones are actually unarmed versions of that cruise missile. Those missiles can also equip with AMRAAM or other air combat sub-missile systems, and that might give them more lethality than ever before. Those ultra modern missiles can be travel to the target by thousands of kilometers, and they can be operated together with another drone like X-47B, what can send real-time recon information about that strike to the commanders of military forces.

That X-47B can also equip with warheads, and if there would be the target, what is important enough, those drones can be used as missiles, what makes the "kamikaze"-attacks against those targets. The new kind of drones can equip with nuclear warheads, or they can drop also nuclear bombs to the target. In this scenario, those nuclear bombs would be exploded inside the drone, or they can drop to the target. So those drones can be used as bombers or missiles, as the commander wants to use them against enemy targets.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit

https://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-influential/10-incredible-facts-about-the-b-2-spirit-stealth-bomber/

https://taskandpurpose.com/b-2-spirit-stealth-bomber-specs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B

Picture 1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/B-2_Spirit_%28cropped%29.jpg/1200px-B-2_Spirit_%28cropped%29.jpg

Picture 2

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/X-47B_over_coastline.jpg

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