Updating the b 52
The B-52 completed sixty years of continuous service with its original operator in 2015.
After being upgraded between 20, it is expected to serve into the 2050s.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.
The Air Force project officer who reviewed the Model 464-40 was favorably impressed, especially since he had already been thinking along similar lines.On Thursday, 21 October 1948, Boeing engineers George S.Schairer, Art Carlsen and Vaughn Blumenthal presented the design of a four-engine turboprop bomber to the chief of bomber development, Colonel Pete Warden.In September 1947, the Heavy Bombardment Committee was convened to ascertain performance requirements for a nuclear bomber.Formalized on 8 December 1947, these requirements called for a top speed of 500 miles per hour (440 kn, 800 km/h) and an 8,000 mile (7,000 nmi, 13,000 km) range, far beyond the capabilities of 464–29.
The bombers flew under the Strategic Air Command (SAC) until it was disestablished in 1992 and its aircraft absorbed into the Air Combat Command (ACC); in 2010 all B-52 Stratofortresses were transferred from the ACC to the newly created Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).