Costly B2 Stealth Bomber To Roll Into Public View From: The Washington Post | Date: November 20, 1988| Author: | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The United States is set to unveil on Tuesday its most expensive warplane yet-a revolutionary $450 million bomber that experts believe will confound air defenses of the next century the same way tanks confounded land defenses in this century.

"This is the most revolutionary military airplane that has ever been developed," said William J. Perry, the former Pentagon research director who helped launch the radar-evading Stealth bomber for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s.

Designated the B2 by the Air Force, the flying-wing bomber is designed to slip through rather than reflect ...

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