A B-52 bomber has the wingspan equivalent to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Each B-52 Stratofortress is powered by 8 Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines. The B-52 bomber requires a crew of 5 for ...

The most striking aspect of a mission that involved two B-52H Stratofortresses flying over Sweden on Tuesday was not the fact that the bombers conducted the B-52’s first live weapons drop in the ...

On the edge of the East China Sea, CNN was on board a B-52 bomber as it turned northeast – toward Alaska, the US and Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana – when the oil pressure gauge for one ...

The B-52 is one of the four deployed to RAF Fairford, UK, as a part of the Bomber Task Force 25-2 (BTF 25-2) that began on Feb. 11, 2025. From the images released by both the services, we can see ...

Two U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bombers from Minot Air Force Base touched down in the UK on Feb. 11, 2025 to kick off the Bomber Task Force 25-2 deployment. Created in 2018, the Bomber Task ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The United States Air Force says the B-52 bomber could be the next weapon used in the fight against ISIS. In a recent briefing, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee ...

Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana — Laser-Guided Bomb Units, commonly referred to as LGB's, were dropped from the bomb bay of a B-52 Stratofortress for the first time in nearly a decade during ...

WASHINGTON, August 30. /TASS/. Two Russian Su-27 acted in an "unsafe and unprofessional" manner when intercepting the US B-52 bomber over the Black Sea, the US Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces ...

This week, the US military flew a B-52 bomber over the Middle East, marking the third Bomber Task Force mission ordered by Washington in the past month, but this time in coordination with Israeli ...

This week, the US military showcased its capabilities in the Middle East with a flyover of B-52 bombers and other ... nations escorting the bombers. “Bomber Task Force missions demonstrate ...