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The U.S. Air Force’s fleet of long-range bombers is the smallest it has been since the end of the Cold War. But while it...
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The U.S. Air Force’s fleet of long-range bombers is the smallest it has been since the end of the Cold War. But while it...
Earlier this week, a Chinese fighter jet came within just 10 feet of an American B-52 Stratofortress bomber over the South China Sea, the...
A U.S. Air Force B-52 on Sunday carried out joint aerial drills with aircraft from South Korea and Japan. The long-range strategic bomber landed...
The Convair did exist for a decade or two but ultimately faded due to several factors, according to an interesting essay from the Bulletin...
The Air Force expected the B-52Js with new engines and radars to be ready for service by the end of the decade. The legendary...
The B-52 Stratofortress is old, but it remains the mainstay of the U.S. Air Force’s bomber fleet. In fact, the classic bomber could well...
The U.S. Air Force’s inventory of B-1B Lancer bombers is limping into the sunset due to age. Congress overrode former President Donald Trump’s veto...
Progress on upgrading the B-52 Stratofortress is no longer slow rolling. This week, Raytheon delivered its first Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar system for the...
In this list of history’s best heavy bombers, I am excluding Axis powers bombers such as Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Heinkel He 177 and Imperial...
Earlier this month, the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron and 340th Weapons Squadron jointly created an integrated team designed to further develop tactics for...