News about B-2 • Iran

The B-2 is the only U.S. Air Force bomber capable of carrying the MOP on bombing missions, with each bomber can carry two bombs.

But dropping 30,000-pound bombs was almost certainly a new experience. In the years before they flew their 37-hour mission to strike Iran's nuclear site at Fordo, the U.S. Air Force pilots spent at least 24 hours straight in a B-2 bomber flight simulator that is a replica of their cockpit.

The B-2 usually has a crew of two pilots who fly the aircraft. During Operation Midnight Hammer, the two pilots were fed, had all the amenities to conduct a mission that lasted for 37 hours.