It's a good thing we also have

Mark 974 posts Joined: Jul 23, 2015

Posted 11:51 am on Jan 11, 2019

the B-1 & B-2, the F-15E, the F-18D, cruise missiles and drones.

And, the original B-52 from the year of your truck was a straight-wing turboprop, whereas today's B-52s are swept-wing turbojets, the point being that we don't operate the 1950s version of the B-52 any more.

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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

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