USAF thinks about an upgraded B-52J bomber
B-52J’s upgrades would include a defensive systems and avionics modernization, a crash-survivable flight data recorder, a weapons system trainer, advanced targeting pod…
B-52J’s upgrades would include a defensive systems and avionics modernization, a crash-survivable flight data recorder, a weapons system trainer, advanced targeting pod…
“We could have been throwing up dust clouds behind us, we were so low. One wrong move and we’d have been…
“The three B-52s sat behind the runway hold line awaiting permission for the final B-52 takeoff from U-Tapao. Then tower cleared…
“Suddenly, flight service had hooked me up to the house phone and said, ‘Your mother is on the phone, Phantom Six-Zero,…
B-52H’s first stage fan disk of the Pratt & Whitney TF33 engine had failed in mid-air and caused the Number Three…
Flying too high to be seen or heard B-52 bombers became one of the weapons most feared by the Viet Cong…
“We see a handful of strikes every year, but out of all the maintainers we have, no one had seen lightning…
The BUFF MiG kills were both scored during Operation Linebacker II, the Christmas strategic air offensive against the industrial and logistical…
“The Weasel WSO launched the HARM “in the blind” hoping a threat would come up and it would take it out.…
A friendly fire incident occurred during ODS when a BUFF tail gunner thought an Iraqi plane was closing in. The plane…
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