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The 74-year-old Stratofortress is on its 13th distinct upgrade. Its 9,000-mile combat range and 70,000-pound bomb load gain from the F130 swap, which rolls...
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The 74-year-old Stratofortress is on its 13th distinct upgrade. Its 9,000-mile combat range and 70,000-pound bomb load gain from the F130 swap, which rolls...
The US Air Force had plans to start winding down the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit bomber fleets. That seems on hold with upgrades...
The B-52H is being re-engined with Rolls-Royce F130s for a 30 percent fuel efficiency gain, and the old AN/APQ-166 is being replaced with an...
The Government Accountability Office examined all 13 programs inside the US Air Force's roughly $21,000,000,000 B-52 modernization effort and found 10 of them running...
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 Air Force's $21 billion effort to modernize the B-52H into the B-52J is meant to keep the bomber flying into the 2050s. A...
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...
The Air Force is attempting something no service has tried: rebuilding bombers whose newest airframe was delivered in 1962 to fly into the 2050s,...
The B-52 Stratofortress pilots perfected low-level flying during the Cold War to operate under Soviet radar systems after the Soviets made significant enhancements to...
The U.S. Air Force just cleared a Critical Design Review for the new B-52J Stratofortress—the most powerful version of America’s iconic bomber ever built....