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Is the most expensive aircraft in the history of aviation.< / p>
B-2 "Spirit" (eng. Northrop B-2 Spirit — - American heavy stealth strategic bomber, developed by Northrop Grumman. The first modern serial heavy aircraft with the scheme "flying wing". Designed to break through dense air defense (adiz) and deliver conventional or nuclear weapons. The beginning of flights since 1989, production ceased in 1999.< / p>
Widely used technology stealth aircraft are covered with radar absorbing materials created by aerodynamic configuration "flying wing" jet engines are escaped; the exact value of EPR for the B-2 is not reported, according to various estimates, this value of 0,0014 m2 to 0. 1m2.< / p>