B-2 Stealth Bomber Left ‘Smiley Face’ of Craters After Smashing All Targets

B-2 Stealth Bomber Left ‘Smiley Face’ of Craters After Smashing All Targets

PUBLISHED on August 11, 2025, 2:58 PM EDT – Key Points and Summary – In a powerful demonstration of its overwhelming firepower, a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber once dropped 80 individual 500-pound JDAMs on a mock airfield in a single pass. The 2003 test was so successful that the crew obliterated every designated target and, with leftover bombs, improvised by carving a “smiley face” into the desert floor. The anecdote, recently recounted by a genera…