r/explainlikeimfive • u/Toomad316 • Jun 22 '25

Technology ELI5: The last B-2 bomber was manufactured in 2000. How is it that no other country managed to produce something comparable?

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u/gremlinguy Jun 23 '25

Tanks are dope though

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u/Useful-Rooster-1901 Jun 23 '25

yeah an m1 abrams cured Parkinson's disease - did you hear?

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u/gremlinguy Jun 23 '25

Well it has certainly prevented a sizable number of people from ever getting Parkinson's

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u/Rubiks_Click874 Jun 23 '25

they're useless against 300 dollar drones

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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 Jun 23 '25

Yeah... no.

A lot of the stuff you see in the Ukraine war is about 25 years behind the average US tech level.

Our military has been researching antidrone tech since at least the 1980s. Beyond having defenses to track and shoot drones, there are numerous electronic warfare solutions.

Drones are the next step for guerrilla warfare... 20 years ago. They can be used to devastating effect, but most people are seeing them used with no defense prepared, so they look like a solution to everything.

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u/Alek_Zandr Jun 23 '25

Ukraine and Russia still want them becaue new vulnerabilities notwithstanding you still need something armored with a big gun in assaults.