Military aircraft buffs: can you identify this plane?

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It caught my attention as I was reading this story: Sailor on US Nuclear Ship Led Hacker Ring, Prosecutor Says


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Looks like a B2 Bomber. I didn't know you could land one of those puppies on a carrier, though.
 
I doubt you could land one there but you could probably load them aboard and fly them off the deck.

Weird, though. Definitely not an F117 Nighthawk, looks sort of like a B2 but the trailing edges are wrong.

I think Bronzeage called it...b3? I didn't know they were in service?

edit again: that is HUGE for a drone.
 
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Well hell, I just googled and found they've been landing drones on carriers for almost a year now.

Sooo....who needs pilots anymore?
 
At first I thought it was the EDI UCAV from the movie Stealth come to life....

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They made it to look like a B-2, so that you would think it was a B-2, just far away.

I understand. I realize most people don't realize how large the B-2 is relative to an aircraft carrier, and to aircraft that commonly land on and take off from carriers.
 
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