It was fitting that the flight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances.
Weather, lack of ammunition, delay start of big push to recover lost territory, as 200,000 Russians dig in using World War I-style trenches.
The standdown is significant in that there are fewer than 20 stealth bombers in the entire fleet and the aircraft provides, along with the B-52 Stratofortress, the air leg of the nation’s nuclear triad.
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