"Here's a B-52 Stratofortress and all its ammunition..." Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Jun 2015 3:44 p.m. PST |
…in one photo- "This photo shows the entire arsenal of a B-52 Stratofortress. The standard loadout for this plane includes eight AGM-84 Harpoon missiles, four AGM-142 Raptor missiles, 51 500-pound bombs, 30 1,000-pound bombs, 20 AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles (CALCM), 12 joint stand-off weapons (JSOW), 12 joint direct-attack munitions (JDAM), and 16 wind-corrected munitions dispensers (WCMD), according to Airforce-technology.com. In 1955, when the first Boeing B-52 Stratofortress became operational, nobody would have imagined that the plane could remain in service for nearly 100 years. Today that's exactly what the US Air Force has in mind for this aircraft…" Full article here link Impressive!. Amicalement Armand |
Ghecko | 25 Jun 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
Impressive indeed. When are the B52's due to be phased out? |
Fatman | 25 Jun 2015 3:55 p.m. PST |
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jpattern2 | 25 Jun 2015 3:59 p.m. PST |
2040. Boeing engineers of the time have a right to be damn proud – any who are still around. These birds are *old*. |
Fatman | 25 Jun 2015 4:54 p.m. PST |
jpattern2 want to place bets that in 2041 we will still be having this conversation? ;-) Fatman |
jpattern2 | 25 Jun 2015 5:08 p.m. PST |
Nope. |
Lion in the Stars | 25 Jun 2015 6:32 p.m. PST |
Wonder how long before a B52 has the grandson of a pilot assigned to it, 3 generations assigned to the same plane? |
Quaker | 25 Jun 2015 7:16 p.m. PST |
@Lion in the Stars It shouldn't be long until great-grandsons are continuing the family tradition of flying B-52s (if you assume they graduate the USAF academy and have a kid at 22 then it would be about 2018). The biggest barrier to having so many generations assigned to the same aircraft is that so much of the fleet was scrapped or put in storage. Only around 11% of airframes are still in service. |
Tango01 | 27 Jun 2015 10:53 a.m. PST |
Only 11%?… Wow! Amicalement Armand |
Lion in the Stars | 27 Jun 2015 6:54 p.m. PST |
The US did build 744 B52s of all variants, so having ~75 or so still in service is no surprise. |
FatherOfAllLogic | 29 Jun 2015 6:52 a.m. PST |
Sometimes engineers are fantastic….. |
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