The U.S. Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress has flown for seven decades and could serve until 2050, but the idea of building new ...

Critical overhauls will allow heavy bombers that entered service in 1954 to fly for more than a century. Central to the modernization efforts is the replacement of the aircraft’s Pratt and ...

News Wrap: Amid escalating tensions, U.S. boosts military presence near Iran In our news wrap Friday, the U.S. military confirmed that B-52 bombers have arrived in Qatar, and an aircraft carrier ...

The bombers conducted airstrikes on five underground weapons facilities, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, and the ...

Understanding the B-52 Bomber The current B-52H model can carry an astonishing 70,000 pounds of ordnance that can deliver massive amounts of death and destruction from extraordinarily high ...

The venerable B-52 isn't just getting upgraded. Paradoxically, it's also going retro...at least in terms of the paint scheme.

First operational use of the B-2 Spirit bomber in Yemen. On Oct. 17, 2024, U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were ...

The first of a number of expected US B-52 bombers touched down today at an RAF base in Gloucestershire. The long-range bomber, expected to be involved in any conflict with Iraq, is the first of ...

The US carried out a round of strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday evening, according to three US ...

The expansion should allow the American forces to deploy the B-52, a long-range bomber that has been called the work-force of the US Air Force.

This was the case on January 24, 1961, when a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen bombs took off on a routine mission over Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the mission, the plane ...