DOD: B-2 Houthi Strikes Show Ability To Hit Hardened Targets

A B-2 deployed to Diego Garcia in August.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bombers hammered underground Houthi weapons storage locations in Yemen in an Oct. 17 strike that served as a demonstration of the bombers’ global reach. The strike was the first combat sortie for the stealth bomber since a January 2017 strike in Libya, when...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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