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Stealth Defense With no onboard weapons to defend themselves—stealth and surprise was their only protection—the planes reached their targets, 16 in all, without anyone on the ground noticing. With a resounding “clunk,” the bomb-bay doors of the planes finally opened, releasing their deadly ordnance .The bombs fell as the planes shuddered. “That’s when the hairs on the back of my neck just started to kind of raise and I realized this is for real,” Sunnarborg said.

Army crewmen load the enormous bombs that the B-2 carried into action in Serbia. The B-2s have also served in Afghanistan and Iraq.