US F-22s & B-2 Deployment Shows How Air Force Would Cripple China. The US Air Force recently completed a first-of-its-kind training exercise involving the stealthiest aircraft in the world in a massive show of force meant to demonstrate the US’s commitment to bucking down a rising China in the Pacific.
B-2 Spirit stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri took the long flight out to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii for the first time starting in September.
And while the B-2s familiarized themselves with their new home, they took off for training missions with ultra-stealth F-22 Raptor fighter jets from the Hawaii Air National Guard.
Why Almost Nothing Can Stop a B-2 Bomber in Battle
B-2 Spirit nuclear-capable bombers and F-22 Raptor fighter jets, two of the stealthiest aircraft in the world. B-2s had never operated out of Pearl Harbor before, but within weeks they found themselves taking off from tiny atolls and practicing new tactics for war in the Pacific.
The training comes as China increasingly uses its military to try to back the US out of the South China Sea and as military relations disintegrate.
The US Air Force clearly intended to show China it wouldn’t back down on its forays into the South China Sea, which the US and allies see as international waters.
