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The Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress Bomber ‘Nightmare’ Is Real

The B-52 is aging, but upgrades aim to keep it relevant. New F130 engines, an AESA radar, and standoff weapons—especially the 1,000-mile JASSM-XR and the nuclear AGM-181 LRSO—let the B-52J strike from ...
This marks the second deployment of US Air Force B-52s to RAF Fairford this year, following the BTF-25-2 Europe mission in February. Last week, two United States Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers ...
A Problem Plane from Day One The B-52 was born in the shadow of World War II but entered a very different world. First f ...