The B-52 bomber remains essential due to structural viability and cutting-edge upgrades. Despite its 1960s origins, enhanced ...

However, the B-52 was not the Air Force's first jet powered bomber. That honor would go to the North American B-45 Tornado. According to the National Museum of the United States Air Force ...

VIKING NEBULA shows what happens when military operation planners try to come up with a good mission name, unlike Odyssey ...

The B-52 may be nearly eighty years old, but the bomber continues to support the U.S. nuclear deterrence apparatus.

Israel and Iran tacitly disengaged after two notable episodes in 2024, the first with Tehran raining ... 15i aircraft flew alongside a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber, practicing operational ...

First taking to the ... the US Air Force in 1955, the B-52 Stratofortress has since become a mainstay of American air power. Originally developed as a nuclear bomber to carry out the critical ...

An Air Force bomber with a retro paint scheme and payload ... It’s part of an upgrade to keep the aging B-52 fleet modern and flying through 2050. A photographer near Boca Chica Beach in ...

Two U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base touched down in the UK on Feb. 11, 2025 to kick off the Bomber Task Force 25-2 deployment. The first two airframes are 60-0007 ...

The U.S. Air Force is seeking industry input on potential alternatives for the B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP), ...