The B-52 Stratofortress has flown for about seventy years. With Iranian air defenses destroyed, it flew overland strike missions rather than standoff attacks.

The service is expected to start production of upgrades "with little to no developmental flight testing," the GAO report ...

The US Air Force is moving ahead with another major modernization effort for its fleet of 75 B-52H bombers, focusing on replacing weapons pylons originally designed during the late 1950s. The proposed ...

WASHINGTON (KMOT) – An effort to modernize the B-52 Stratofortress bombers is facing a series of setbacks, according to an independent government watchdog. The Government Accountability Office issued ...

LOS ANGELES — The B-52 bomber is considered a marvel not only of the U.S. military but of all aviation history. The massive plane remains a workhorse for the Air Force seven decades after it debuted ...

Some B-52 programs are seeing substantial delays, putting them years behind schedule, and costs are ballooning as well.

The B-52 bomber aircraft first entered service during the Eisenhower administration during the 1950s. More than seven decades later, the Air Force is spending billions of dollars to transform the Cold ...

The B-52 Stratofortress is expected to serve for a full century before its retirement—but could eventually be replaced by the “New Heavy Bomber,” its hypothetical successor. The US Air Force continues ...

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed Monday near Edwards Air Force Base, killing all eight military personnel and civilian contractors aboard. Flight data shows the bomber nearly completed a ...

As of June 16, the military had not released images of a B-52 bomber crash at Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County, California, that a U.S. Air Force official described as "unrecoverable" and ...

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