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Flying the B-52: Cold War Giant, Still on Duty
The B-52 Stratofortress isn’t just a bomber it’s a flying piece of history, still serving decades after its first flight in ...
The enhanced B-52 platform is expected to play a critical role in the Air Force’s bomber strategy for years to come.
In 1991, the US planned a major military assault on India on the pretext, that the Kashmir issue had brought matters between ...
One of the most widely known accidents that occurred during the Cold war was in 1966, where a B-52 bomber returning to North Carolina, Spain collided mid-air with a KC-135 tanker during a ...
On April 11, 1983, a B-52G bomber went down in the rugged mountains of southern Utah, killing all seven crew members on board ...
April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an ...
At the beginning of the 1960s, the US had developed a project to deter its Cold War rival, the Soviet Union, from launching a pre-emptive strike. A patrol of nuclear-armed B-52 bombers would ...
In the vast, wind-swept expanse of the Mojave Desert, inside the cavernous hangars of Air Force Plant 42, something ...
Air Force Boeing B-52H Stratofortress ... crisis were studying the SIOP at the only time in the history of the cold war when U.S. forces reached Defense Condition 2. At DEFCON 1, those SAC ...