[Specklespot45]

This story points to interesting security issues about the B2 Stealth bomber.

[A.A. Cunningham]

"[Providing an] ability to fly unseen into high-value targets, and to kick down the door and take them out," he said.

Provided, of course, that they are accompanied by EA-6Bs, as every B-2 combat mission is now, to jam enemy low band search radars to which the B-2 is susceptible to detection by.

[Mr. Jeeves]

They are probably only based in Missouri as a payoff to some politican who voted for their construction. The sensible thing would be to move them to Nellis AFB in Nevada or some other western base with minimal weather risk. Being 1,500 miles further west won’t have any significant impact on their ability to reach the Middle East in a hurry.

[texas booster]

Some Air Force bases had been hit by tornadoes before, in one case four times, and the hangars there still have not been up-armored.

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Anyone ever heard of Homestead AFB? Hurricane Andrew sure did a number on that base.

You can’t tornado proof a big object like a hanger, but if you are protecting $46 billion worth of planes you can do better than this.

Which base has been hit 4 times by tornadoes? Altus AFB? Another now closed base?

[ThomasThomas]

Jets away can fly when nessary. There made to do that sort of thing.