The B-2 Bomber Plane

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stealth technology is what has been developing for years to help the us air force stay incognito to plane radar. One of the most famous planes that use a stealth pattern is the B-2 Bomber plane.According to How It Works a online webpage the B-2 is able to stay invisible to radar until they are in the area of 0.1 square miles of that radar and even then it is hard to pick it up. Stealth technology is layers of composite material. Also most stealth planes are built so there are very few straight edges for a radar signal to hit and bounce back to the radar. Like the B-2 bomber How It Works says that Because the way that the plane is built the 172 foot wingspan…because of the way the engine is made and were the vent is the “chances you aren’t going

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