{"id":1781746,"date":"2022-12-20T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781746"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:18:45","slug":"air-force-grounds-b-2-stealth-bomber-fleet-after-one-plane-catches-fire-and-makes-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-force-grounds-b-2-stealth-bomber-fleet-after-one-plane-catches-fire-and-makes-emergency-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Grounds B-2 Stealth Bomber Fleet After One Plane Catches Fire and Makes Emergency Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fair-force-grounds-b-2-stealth-bomber-fleet-after-one-plane-catches-fire-and-makes-emergency-landing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781746&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/original_B2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/air-force-tells-cadets-to-use-gender-neutral-language-no-more-mom-and-dad-in-diversity-training\">United States Air Force<\/a> grounded the entirety of its B-2 stealth bomber fleet following a fire on one of the planes earlier on December 10th and causing an emergency landing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/air-force-grounds-b-2-stealth-bomber-fleet-aircraft-catches-fire-emergency-landing\">According to Fox News<\/a>, &#8220;The multi-role bomber, which was first unveiled in 1989, is capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. The 20-aircraft fleet is based out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the emergency landing, the Air Force said they plan to inspect each individual B-2 aircraft out of a fleet comprising fewer than 20 B-2s. An undisclosed malfunction caused the fire, which occurred mid-flight. There were no injuries and the fire was extinguished before landing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The B-2 stealth bombers\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fires-st-louis-3475932780512d66c3e4218969cb4485\">The Associated Press reports that<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;none of the strategic aircraft will perform flyovers at this years&#8217; college bowl games.&#8221; The plan was set to fly over the 2023 Rose Bowl Game and Rose Parade. In a statement from the 509th Bomb Wing, an Air Force plane will still appear at the games in the shape of the B-1 Lancer.<\/p>\n<p>The B-21 Raider was already set to replace the B-21, which had been in use since 1989. The B-21 will be deployed next year.<\/p>\n<p>The B-2, &#8220;along with the B-52 Stratofortress, the air leg of the nation\u2019s nuclear triad,&#8221; the AP reports. The B-2 had been &#8220;regularly deployed&#8221; in the Indo-Pacific and had completed recent flyovers in Europe as a &#8220;show of force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In September, a different B-2 also had to make an emergency landing. That aircraft had a hydraulic failure and its landing gear collapsed &#8220;The bomber\u2019s left wing dragged for about a mile before the aircraft came to a halt, resulting in at least $10 million in damage to the aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/area-51-dod-apologizes-for-threatening-to-bomb-millennials-raiding-2019-9\">According to Insider<\/a>, in 2019, the Air Force tweeted that they would &#8220;bomb millennials into oblivion&#8221;\u00a0via the B-2 if they tried to infiltrate Area 51. The Air Force later apologized for the tweet.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Air Force grounded the entirety of its B-2 stealth bomber fleet following a fire on one of the planes earlier on December 10th and causing an emergency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6229,10626,7225,5458,8669,4469,6725,4649,10625,10624,9530,3819,7226],"class_list":["post-1781746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-air","tag-b-2","tag-bomber","tag-bongino","tag-catches","tag-emergency","tag-fleet","tag-force","tag-grounds","tag-landing","tag-plane","tag-report","tag-stealth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}