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.

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