One of the Air Force’s most powerful bombers recently flew to the Arctic to test out its ship killing bomb earlier this month. A B-2 Spirit bomber flew with planes from the Norwegian Air Force in a test of the military’s “Quicksink” munition, taking out a floating target.

Rather than the massive bunker buster bombs B-2s dropped on Iranian facilities earlier this summer, this test involved a 2,000-pound-class GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM. It was the third test of the Quicksink, a large JDAM specifically modified to take out enemy ships in a single strike. The test took place on Sept. 3, although both the American and Norwegian militaries did not announce the exercise until a week later; flight trackers did notice a B-2 en route to Norway around that time however.

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