Does the US army still employ stealth bombers/fighters for conflicts?

I’ve heard no reports of any modern conflicts using stealth bombers.

The latest Ive heard was how they moved a whole bunch of Stealth Bombers within range of North Korea; but thats the only real news Ive heard on them.

Googles turned up blank as per usual for me :frowning:

Do they still use them tactically at all?

We do have F-117 and B-2 stealth aircraft. Neither are going away anytime soon, and both were last used in Operation: Iraqi Freedom. The F-117 is the ‘fighter’ (single-seat attack, actually) aircraft, and is the older of the two. It will be phased out when the F-35 enters service. The B-2 is the 2/3 seat bomber, (flying wing), and will be around for decades, most likely. (Until the planned replacement, the ‘hypersoar’ is out, most likely).

A nitpick with myself, the US Army does not have any ‘stealth’ aircraft. (And will not have them for a long time, with the recent cancellation of the Comanche.) The US Air Force, however, happily continues to use stealth aircraft.

touche’ :cool:

At one time wasn’t the Air Force actually part of the Army?

The USAAC (US Army Air Corps) was disbanded in 1947, and turned into the USAF, about the time the Dept of War turned into the DoD…

1 August 1907 United States Army Signal Corps Aeronautical Division
18 July, 1914 United States Army Aviation Section
24 May 1918 United States Army Air Service
1926 United States Army Air Corps (USAAC)
9 March 1942 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
26 July 1947 United States Air Force (USAF)

Stealth aircraft have been used by the United States in every major conflict since the 1988 invasion of Panama (where the F-117 made its debut). F-117’s were also used extensively in the First Persian Gulf War. The B-2 bomber was used in combat for the first time in the 1999 NATO air campaign against Serbia. (An F-117 fighter was also lost in that conflict.) B-2 bombers were also used in Afghanistan and Iraq, as were F-117’s.

Am I the only one who’s wondering what LuckySevens means by “modern”? My conception of a “modern war” would go back probably to WWII, and certainly to Korea, both of which were well before the development of stealth aircraft. But the OP seems to be acknowledging that stealth aircraft were used in some “pre-modern” war.

Incidentally, I think that the U.S. is the only country with effective stealth aircraft, so don’t expect them in any conflict in which we weren’t involved.