Summary and Key Points: The B-52 Stratofortress, designed in 1948 and first flown in 1952, is a durable and highly effective long-range bomber that has served the U.S. Air Force for over 70 years.

Understanding the B-52 Bomber The current B-52H model can carry an astonishing 70,000 pounds of ordnance that can deliver massive amounts of death and destruction from extraordinarily high ...

If the Air Force Loves the B-52 Bomber So Much Why Not Build New Versions? The U.S. Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress has flown for seven decades and could serve until 2050, but the idea of ...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan warned Iran not… You can bake a Hot Pocket on board a B-52 nuclear bomber. Seriously. During long hours of training, or on actual bombing missions ...

The B-52 sporting the amazing throwback paint scheme has returned at Barksdale Air Force Base. As reported in details a few days ago, a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber was photographed ...

The B-52 is known for its distinctive layout of eight engines in four separate two-engine pods. Equipped with Pratt & Whitney TF33-PW-103 engines, the bomber boasts a range of 8,800 miles (14,162 ...

A B-52 bomber successfully released a JDAM precision-guided bomb from its internal bomb bay for the first time in test. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) successfully tested a new internal rotary bomb ...

This was the case on January 24, 1961, when a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen bombs took off on a routine mission over Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the mission, the plane ...

Mark Gunzinger, a retired Air Force colonel who flew the older B-52 Stratofortress bomber, said the stealth B-2 Spirit could essentially engage "any target on the face of the earth, and it can do ...

the B-52 was also escorted by two Russian Air Force Su-27 Flankers that, according to the Pentagon, carried out an unsafe and unprofessional intercept on the U.S. bomber. We linked the press ...

SEOUL, November 15. /TASS/. Servicemen from South Korea and the United States have conducted air drills with the US B-52 strategic bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons, the South Korean ...

Retired Air Force Col. Mark Gunzinger, a former B-52 bomber command pilot and director of future concepts and capability assessments for the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, told Military ...