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Retire the B-52? Heck No: It's Getting Another Upgrade
The B-52 has been in service since the 1950s—and remarkably, the Air Force has no plans of retiring the old bomber.
How The US Air Force’s B-52 Fleet Maintains Global Strategic Presence
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress of the US Air Force is practically a household ... During Desert Storm, B-52s delivered 40 ...
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U.S. Air Force B-52 Conducted Simulated Weapons Drop on Russia's Doorstep
However, the U.S. Air Force upped the proverbial ante last month by conducting the first-ever simulated weapons drop in Finland ... fighter jets and (U.S.) B-52 Stratofortress bombers flew ...
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Air Force B-52 bombers are dropping laser-guided bombs for the first time in nearly a decade
The advent of the Conventional Rotary Launcher, a bomb bay weapons platform made available to the B-52 fleet in 2017, provides an alternative to the cluster bomb rack system and may once again ...
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AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
B-52, F-15, F-117, A-10, F-35A. Warhead: AGM-154A/145 BLU-97 combined-effects bomblets; AGM-154A-1, 500-pound BLU-111 warhead; AGM-154B, six P3I BLU-108 sensor-fuzed-weapon submunitions ...
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Goldsboro, 1961
says Bob Peurifoy, former director of weapon development at Sandia National ... This was the case on January 24, 1961, when a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen bombs took off on a routine ...