The newest B-52 in the Air Force fleet was built the same year as this truck...

NedoftheHill 47454 posts Joined: Jun 29, 2011

Posted 12:49 am on Jan 11, 2019

57 years ago. That is, the last B-52 built for the Air Force entered service in 1962. The rest of our B-52 fleet is older than that. Pretty amazing to be relying on 60 year old planes.

They expect B-52s to remain in active service through 2050.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

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The newest B-52 in the Air Force fleet was built the same year as this truck...Img NedoftheHill 12:49am · 1/11/19
- It's a good thing we also have Mark 11:51am · 1/11/19
  - The B-52H is the only version still around Link Mark 3:44pm · 1/11/19
    - Nah. We probably don't need more. And yet, we still use 57 year old planes. NedoftheHill 6:00pm · 1/11/19
      - They've always had wonky bomb bay doors. Iggle 9:49pm · 1/11/19
        
        Slim pickings on the technology there.NT Frank L 3:51pm · 1/12/19
  - The original straight-wing turboprop is from 1946...when this truck was built.Img NedoftheHill 3:14pm · 1/11/19
  - Re: It's a good thing we also have this little bomb dropped in the 80's jimbasil 12:56pm · 1/11/19
- I'm clearly not an expert on weapons delivery, but what about the B-2s and all those billions?NT Rooster 11:47am · 1/11/19
  - We have 21 B-2's, each with about 60% the payload of a B-52. NedoftheHill 3:17pm · 1/11/19
  - As an aside I was reading about ADX Florence SuperMax CC72 1:22pm · 1/11/19

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