The B-52 bomber remains essential due to structural viability and cutting-edge upgrades. Despite its 1960s origins, enhanced ...

Whatever the role, the B-52 can likely fill it, and cost is a factor. The U.S. spent approximately $84 million on each aircraft, while more modern counterparts like the B-2 cost $1.157 billion ...

More from Military & Defense US Air Force B-52 planes conduct aerial refueling ... Here's how the mission is completed: The receiver aircraft approaches the tanker plane from behind.

The 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron revealed the finished livery of the heritage orange B-52H which pays tribute to the ...

The B-52 conducted a planned CONUS-to-CONUS mission, meaning that the aircraft took off from the ... integrated with 23 percent of the world’s military in BTF missions. In February 2024, just ...

VIKING NEBULA shows what happens when military operation planners try to come up with a good mission name, unlike Odyssey ...

President Trump announced a contract awarded to Boeing to build the newest fighter aircraft – the F-47 – that will far ...

The best of these was the A-1 Skyraider, a star in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the last U.S. military propeller-driven aircraft of its type to see combat. The A-1 was retired from active ...

Nearly one out of every four of the more than 8,000 near midair collisions in U.S. airspace reported from 1987 to 2021 involved at least one military aircraft, a CBS News analysis of Federal ...