Aerospace & Defense
The simplest reason why the US Air Force keeps the B-52H around is that there really isn’t anything wrong with it and it can...
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The simplest reason why the US Air Force keeps the B-52H around is that there really isn’t anything wrong with it and it can...
While it still lacks the stealth capabilities of the B-2, the B-1B’s larger payload capacity and integration of stand-off munitions have made it a...
The B-29 program cost more than $3 billion in wartime dollars, making it the single most expensive weapons development effort of the Second World...
The B-52 Stratofortress has flown for about seventy years. With Iranian air defenses destroyed, it flew overland strike missions rather than standoff attacks.
Iran entered the 2025 and 2026 wars with Russian S-300s, domestic Bavar-373s and layered defenses. Israel broke open routes with stealth, intelligence and suppression...
The B-52 Radar Modernization Program was structured around two test aircraft from the outset. On June 15 one of them crashed after departing Edwards...
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100...
The Pentagon is retiring two bombers decades younger than the B-52 while rebuilding the old giant to fly for another generation. Behind that inversion...
All six American B-52 bombers have left their British base, presumably headed home, as Washington quietly winds down its Iran campaign and looks for...
The Air Force is attempting something no service has tried: rebuilding bombers whose newest airframe was delivered in 1962 to fly into the 2050s,...