US is Testing Brand New B-52s to Fly for a Full Century

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Hyper-speed bombers, sixth-generation stealth fighters, and combat drones - all this undoubtedly looks impressive and seemingly leaves no chance for any of the technologies from the past. However, there are such aircraft that still make for excellent competition in the face of all these “new recruits”. One of these is the B-52 Stratofortess, a bomber that has been in service for more than 70 years, but even now it is still considered one of the strongest in the world!
Today you’ll be learning more about the most famous, powerful, and unique aircraft from the Cold War era - you’ll be surprised at what records it managed to set, and how it’s set to be modernized!

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@iwejun 12 дней назад

My father was a major who flew a B-52G out of Loring AFB in Maine. I remember riding my bike down to the runway when the alert klaxon sounded off and watch the planes takeoff one after the other. It was a big day in our house when my dad came home with Major pins because they were going to fly with nukes. He went on to captain C-130 Spectres in Vietnam for 18 months but the B-52 is still his favorite. He’s 90 now and failing but still talks about his plane which sits on a pylon outside the entrance at Offut AFB.

@carlagalois3191 12 дней назад

Oh wow. Thank you. I drive by there every week. I always wondered about that.

@johnbuckner2200 11 дней назад

I wish I could see my plane one more time but unfortunately it is in the boneyard. I still remember the tail number.

@topturretgunner 11 дней назад

@@iwejun my deepest respect to your father along with my thanks. I bet he has some stories to share. You might think of recording his stories in some fashion. My dad was US Army WWII. He served with an Army AAA unit in the Pacific.

@41divad 10 дней назад

During the Gulf War one limped as far as Guam. It was so damaged it was condemned. They blew the wings off and proceeded to salvage much of the plane

@jameslanning8405 9 дней назад

Great aircraft don't expire... They just get put on display!

@mitseraffej5812 14 дней назад

I have a Vietnamese friend from Hanoi who’s father was conscripted into the NVA as an 18 year old. He was on the receiving end of the B52 on many occasions and says it was the most terrifying aspect of the war he fought against the US and South Vietnam.

@mach1553 13 дней назад

Nice! 😊 BTW - Glad he made it through.

@robertsansone1680 13 дней назад

I saw a video about the B-52. A former U.S. infantry officer said that they called in a B-52 strike. After it was over, they found an NVA officer wandering around. He was in shock. He said, "You could clap your hands together & he would literally defecate in his pants".

@ridethecurve55 12 дней назад

This video never did mention the 'Brand New' B-52s, though. Are they really 'brand new', or merely new parts of weapon systems, electronics, engines, etc? Seeing a New B-52 come off an assembly line would truly excite me! And did the latest 'H' series switch to digital flight/cockpit instrumentation or still relying on the old analog instruments it had for, forever?

@SuperDrake85 11 дней назад

Doesn't sound like a very fun dad to have. Sounds like the kinda dad that would shut down any argument or protest, no mater how big or small with "Oh yeah, well when you've held your ground on the receiving end of a US Air Force B-52 raid then you can come back and talk to me about it, until then do your chores and finish your homework!"

@robertmorey4104 10 дней назад

Operation Linebacker brought the NVA to negotiating table. Nothing else did. Go BUFF.

@dewiz9596 17 дней назад

As a pilot, my mantra was. . . If you’re going to have more than one engine, go for as many as you can. . . because. . . that second engine will always get you to the scene of the crash.

@gusgone4527 14 дней назад

Ha ha ha nice. What goes up must come down but not always where you planned.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

Unless you know what you are talking about this could lead to misunderstanding. It depends on the reliability of the various components. One good engine is better than two unreliable engines. Sometimes even four.

@tobyihli9470 14 дней назад

I’m in awe of this weapon. I can see the B52 being in service past the 100 year mark, which just boggles the mind.

@albertomorales9493 14 дней назад

Yup, sounds like trust worthy 1970's Datsun's that keeps on going. Made to last. Much better than most of the newer tech. No nonsense and get the job done.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

This is not what it seems, you have a new body every 7-10 years for example. Some parts wear out and have to be replaced, so why not put in newer designs and more reliable parts? Even better than a human! I remember the Sperry guys being really excited when they were bidding on replacing B-52 parts.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

@@albertomorales9493 But the Datsun does not have a $150 toilet seat! 😁

@jameslanning8405 14 дней назад

The B52 was set aside, as the frontline strategic bomber for the US, after the development of ICBMs. Reliable, and powerful, these missiles were capable of delivering nuclear warheads to anywhere in the Soviet Union within minutes, not hours. It wasn't the fall of the Soviet Union that made the B-52 unneeded for a nuclear delivery system. It was ICBMs and satellites, that offered better intel gathering over the globe. But the B-52 was still a heavy bomber with long range. And it has served in every theater of war, the US has been engaged in, since Vietnam.

@obsoletevalues6209 13 дней назад

The U.S. has for years depended on the "Triad" system for nuclear war deterrence and potential war: missiles, bombers, and submarines. The B-52 was absolutely not replaced with the ICBM. The U.S. has 20 B-2 Spirit bombers, and the START treaty between the U.S. and Russia forced the U.S. to made the B-1 Lancer incapable of carrying a nuclear cruise missile. The B-52 is today the most significant part of the "bomber" part of the Triad.

@jameslanning8405 13 дней назад

@@obsoletevalues6209 The main reason the B-52 is NOT part of the frontline nuclear options. Once anti-aircraft missiles were capable of reaching them, they became a liability, not an asset. The U-2 fiasco in Russia, was the real wakeup call. If they can hit a 'spy plane,' like the U-2, it wouldn't be an issue to hit the B-52. There's no BOMBER aircraft we currently have in the military arsenal, that are safe from a missile. The SR-71 was fast enough to get away, before the missile could reach its altitude. But it was never a bomber...

@SergioMollari 13 дней назад

All that aside, when the enemy hears that Buffs are on the way, they know one thing for sure: they're royally fvcked.

@roguemodel 13 дней назад

The first ICBMs were developed by Russia and deployed in Northwest Siberia in 1957 as the R7. The US placed its first ICBMs in 1959 in the Atlas and Titan versions. The Nuclear triad was a nuclear doctrine utilizing land, sea, and air assets. SAC's mission ended in 1992 with the fall of the Soviet Union. The B-52s were never replaced or superseded. In fact, the SAC mission has returned, and the planes still carry nuclear weapons as an alert force.

@obsoletevalues6209 10 дней назад

@@jameslanning8405 So, you are saying the U.S. doesn't use the Triad approach any more? B-52s practice flying their bombing runs a few hundred feet about the ground. I have personally witnessed doing it on their practice runs.

@dnedlew 15 дней назад

My Father was in the Marine Corps working on the Hawk Missile system at White Sand Missile Range in New Mexico when the Cuban Missile crisis erupted. We lived at Fort Bliss in El Paso. Biggs Air Force base was a SAC base with B-52's stationed there. During thee crisis we had B-52's flying in our back door and out our front door 24 hours a day.. Needless to say, as as 10 year at the time, it was very exciting watching them fly through the house.

@rayatkin3913 15 дней назад

So you had big doors in your house?

@topturretgunner 14 дней назад

Amen my friend. Our home in Dayton Ohio was right under the landing approach path for B-52’s flying in and out of Wright-Patterson AFB back in the day when SAC still existed. 9 and 10 o’clock at night these beasts blasted overhead on final approach. What a time.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

@@rayatkin3913 Figuratively. Laying on your back in the middle of the house and you can see them coming from the front door and going away from the back door. (In my case they literally blew my ears out at the end of the runway).

@michaelpettersson4919 15 дней назад

The B-52 is so old that it has become a meme to the point of some Star Trek fan drawing a B-52 with warp nacelles. As a joke obviously but still.

@paulzammataro7185 14 дней назад

🖖🏻

@topturretgunner 14 дней назад

I remember as a 12 year old boy standing near a perimeter fence at Wright-Patterson AFB watching as a B-52 accelerated towards me lofting into the sky directly overhead. Watching as the landing gear rotated and tucked into their wells in the belly of that smoke belching thunderous beast I was in total awe. This was back in the day when SAC (Strategic Air Command) still existed. That moment cemented the growing love and fascination with military aviation in the heart of a preteen boy. That was 60 years ago and look. The B-52 is still with us. Much like her Air Force stablemates the KC-135 or the Lockheed C-130 Hercules both long serving aircraft in their own right. You just can’t improve on perfection. All three aircraft serving perfectly their designed roles and with airframes that are easily upgraded. Long may the B-52 continue to serve.

@MAC88-88 13 дней назад

Grew up in Dayton in the 60s and went to USAF Museum during grade school every year on field trips, boy scouts, and with family. Amazing to see the history of mlitary and space. A former brother-in-law wrote one of the Wright-Patt Year Books and was given access to all the hangers... the rumors are true but unwriten;)

@topturretgunner 13 дней назад

@@MAC88-88 Hey MAC-88. WOW! Small world sir. I attended Wilbur Wright and Belmont High Schools. We lived in East Dayton. Lived in a home directly across the street from the current museum site on Wake avenue in a housing tract built by Jim Huber. Lived up there when that EF 5 tornado devastated Xenia Ohio April of 73. That hangar tour must have been fascinating.

@markaustin643 13 дней назад

I was an AFROTC cadet when we visited Wright-Patterson AFB in 1973. In addition to touring the Air Force Museum, we got a flightline tour of 60-0049, a B-52H. Five years later I was in the 46th Bomb Squadron at Grand Forks AFB, flying that same airplane.

@rkc5666 12 дней назад

Similar story here. As a kid living in Springfield Ohio in the early '70s my dad would drive me to Wright Patterson and park just off the end of the runway on hwy 235 to watch B52's from the 34th bomb squadron land. Fast forward twenty years later I was a crew chief in the 34th bomb squadron at Ellsworth AFB, SD working on B-1 bombers.

@topturretgunner 11 дней назад

@@rkc5666 WOW 😮! Thanks for sharing that story. Seems that there are more than a few of us here that lived near Wright-Pat. Many good memories of the base and the museum. I’m about due for a trip there.

@Thwarptide 20 дней назад

I have no idea why they would keep modernizing a 70 year old airframe when there’s not many of em left. The build itself is a proven platform and has excellent place in the fleet. There are plenty of letters left in the alphabet (I think they left off at B52H models?) The plans are still available, build more (they’re cheap in today’s economy) and modernize with hi-tech components, engines and defense systems. Maybe beef up the airframe a bit. The B52 series will live on.

@user-mg6ce6sy2c 20 дней назад

Because no other bomber on the planet holds a candle to it.

@jtwilliams8895 17 дней назад

I was wondering the same thing. They should have just built more B-52s in the 90s based on the B52H design as a starting point.

@TheKenworthys 17 дней назад

The problem with trying to build new air frames is the old tooling is probably long gone. The tools are done separate from plans by engineers... these are jigs and frames, etc. It would take a bunch of effort to recreate them.

@foxstrangler 17 дней назад

@@TheKenworthys Uncle Sam stores all the tooling at Davis Monthan. When it was possible to tour the base, the bus always turned round short of the area where the jigs and tooling was stored. Rest assured, new B-52s could be put back into production. They have had new wings more than once, and at lease one type of engine change already.

@TheKenworthys 17 дней назад

@@foxstrangler Thank you for the info. I very much appreciate being updated.

@Yogenh 15 дней назад

I was a jet engine mechanic on the B52 at Castle Air Force Base from 1982 to 1992 it was quite a plane to work on.

@Yogenh 14 дней назад

And I do miss it

@BBD40 10 дней назад

@@YogenhI was a bomb loader from the same era, also at Castle

@pacificostudios 11 дней назад

The 52 is simply a very large flying ammunition truck. With all its stand-off weapons, it doesn't need to contend with air defenses. The survival of this ship is a testament to the ability of Air Force aircraft maintainers and program managers.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

The B-52 was and is a flying computer that has among the first and best ECM there is. With seconds to acquire and shoot down a target, it is not an easy task to shoot down a B-52. Currently the Russian anti-aircraft system can't even hit the broadside of a barn. I remember Vietnam ( I was there 1966-7), some were hit and shot down, (mistakes were made) things are different now.

@watchdogJJ 16 дней назад

B52D & G's, Master Crew Chief, Beale and March AFB

@kevinstich7603 14 дней назад

I stood in awe in 1969 when 16 B-52s roared overhead in the pattern at Fairchild AFB. The ground shook

@zaphod22 13 дней назад

That same year I watched B-52's take off from Dyess. A stunning experience for a little kid.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

Yeah, and my ears blew out.

@zedwpd 10 дней назад

As a Mission Crew Commander Air Battle Manager on AWACS, I can attest to the B-52's jamming capabilities.

@rv9flyer13brotary9 10 дней назад

But as you also know, when an a/c actively jams its' opponent, that action will simultaneously highlight its' position on an azimuth line, which a fighter can then fly down/along, until it finds and kills it...

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

@@rv9flyer13brotary9 That's with one aircraft, which there never is.

@stevec3526 13 дней назад

Used to work for Boeing. Boeing learned a lot from the B-47, the B-52’s predecessor.

@briancooper2112 14 дней назад

I love the sound of the B-52 in the morning!

@hamishmacintyre4600 15 дней назад

I was of the belief that the B52 delivered one hell of a lot of conventional weapons (bombs) over Vietnam in the 60’s and 70’s - so much for the accuracy of this video given that it states that the B52 was not modified for this role until the 80’s.

@williamhudson4938 15 дней назад

Don't believe everything you see on RU-vid. The "D" models in Vietnam were modified to carry up to 108 Mk82 500 lb bombs. The subsequent "G"s and "H"s weren't capable of conventional loads until much later. Maybe some independent research on your part would keep you from looking like an armchair quarterback.

@simonjenkins4481 12 дней назад

It was referred to as "..carpet bombing...".

@jameslanning8405 9 дней назад

I'm with you there... I think the 'rotary launchers,' that were inserted into the bomb bays, were the 80s upgrade, allowing the B-52 to carry more cruise missiles, than just the hard points under the wings. Don't take this a concrete truth... But I think the B-52, could carry 20/ 2,000 pound bombs in a single load out. That's 40K of iron and high explosives! The Vietnam War, was about the end of the high altitude bombing missions, using carpet bombing reasoning... Today, they have opted to use guided munitions, for surgical missions, and pinpoint accuracy. No need to drop 40K pounds of bombs and hope you hit the target, when one well placed guided bomb or missile will do the job. Cheaper for the military and less collateral damage on the ground.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

What mods would you need to drop dumb bombs? They modified the belly to hold more bombs (27 to 84 500lb bombs)

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

@@jameslanning8405 You forget, no GPS. max load 35 tons of bombs. Remember, a 750 does not weigh 750 lbs. it can weigh 850 lbs. (M117 bomb).

@garydillon3960 16 дней назад

Upgrade the best bomber ever developed. It's proven itself since 1952.

@robertstanley3799 15 дней назад

Not the best bomber 😂

@andypandy9013 14 дней назад

If the B52 is "the best bomber ever" how come that the Brits got through in both Sky Shield 1 and Sky Shield 2 with their Vulcan bombers when the USAF's B52s didn't? 🤔

@RyshusMojo1 13 дней назад

Major T. J. “King” Kong would agree.

@vicbittertoo 13 дней назад

@@RyshusMojo1 best acting/movie ever !!:)

@davesnothere. 13 дней назад

@@RyshusMojo1 POE

@ronjones1077 18 дней назад

Brand new 70+ years old B52’s. New engines, systems and some crew

@russvoight1167 14 дней назад

The current H models were built in 1961 and 1962 so they are not 70 years old yet

@danielhurley7047 20 дней назад

This would be better without the noise in the background (music).

@dewiz9596 17 дней назад

Meh

@peterscandlyn 16 дней назад

Be even better if you didn't have to listen to a rehash of history to get to the point of what talking head aimed to say....

@norman7179 15 дней назад

Music rarely adds anything to a good video.

@timothyharrison8953 13 дней назад

I was exposed to B-52s when I went to Aero Repair school in 1983. I'm just glad I wasn't assigned to a base that had them, These old planes need maintenance all the time and are a bear to work on. Now for the last sixteen years since retiring from the Air Force, I've worked around Bombardier Globals and can say the Rolls Royce BR710A-220 is a great, reliable engine and will be a significant upgrade over the ancient Pratt and Whitney TF-33s on the old bomber.

@NAFO_MythicPlague 14 дней назад

That was really interesting on the B-52 bomber. One of my former Commanders was a navigator of B-52's for a while in Vietnam. He always talked about the rotating wheels as a modern marvel in and of itself. He was also the Navigator for a C-130 which became Air Force One for a short duration when Nixon was President.

@CheefSmokealot64 11 дней назад

We love Grandpa Buff. The B52 will live for over 100 yrs. Fly on Grandpa Buff. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@JCT442 18 дней назад

They're not "brand new" pal...

@neilstern7108 17 дней назад

That's for sure I was in thee back of one 1970.

@robertheinkel6225 17 дней назад

Re-engined and upgraded, but not new.

@d53101 15 дней назад

The B-52 is one year older than me.

@thisisnumber0 15 дней назад

Not a lot gets past you..I can tell that.

@thomasboyce1060 14 дней назад

I'm two years older than the oldest. Was at a SAC base in Maine, guarding them while they had weapons on board.

@thomasblue7667 13 дней назад

When engineers were the foundation and guiding force of Boeing and many other such firms. The aircraft is a classic study in design excellence.

@Yoppeh7J1944 4 дня назад

I spent 17 months Jan 1967 to June 1968 in the 2nd log Machinato supply depot in Okinawa about 8 miles south of Kadena Air Force base. The B52s flying from Kadena to Vietnam would come down over the ocean passed our barracks blowing black smoke, Hanging in the air poking along at such slow speed new guys would ask what is holding them up in the air. They were loaded so heavy they had almost empty fuel tanks and the KC135 tankers for refueling them just passed them and were gone . The B52s finally would get their speed up enough to start climbing about the time they disappeared over the horizon.

@ibRobH_225 12 дней назад

The ability to land in HIGH crosswinds by crabbing the landing gear is one HUGE reason this aircraft serves so long

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

I think there may be other reasons that are more compelling.

@vicbittertoo 13 дней назад

an awesome machine, projected 100 years of service, that's the equivalent of the Wright Brothers plane being retired from active military service in 2003 !!!

@johnbuckner2200 11 дней назад

It is three years older than me!!! I Hope that it stays in service past 2030.

@Jack-bs6zb 15 дней назад

Our narrator finds the words ‘Rolls Royce’ too hard to utter.

@chipcook5346 14 дней назад

AI.

@jimjones9239 14 дней назад

Is a voice bot not a real person.

@Jack-bs6zb 14 дней назад

@@jimjones9239 ... that's not the point of my comment

@gottfriedheumesser1994 20 дней назад

A lot of hot air with little content. Nearly nothing about what the -J version will have changes.

@davidclemens1578 16 дней назад

As you have seen in the past there are likely upgrades that are classified for obvious reasons. Need to know basis and you and I don't need to know.

@gottfriedheumesser1994 16 дней назад

@@davidclemens1578 Other channels can explain that! It is not classified. Maybe you don't need to know that, but I do from other sources.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

You seem to have completely forgot the AGM-28 Hound Dog (1959). I was a fireman at Goldsboro in 1965-6. We sat at the end of the runway and watched them takeoff and land. Later I went into aircraft radio repair on the F-105. I fly model planes with other retired military men.

@cgross82 12 дней назад

When I was a kid growing up in Orlando, Florida in the late 60s and early 70s, we would watch those bad boys scramble during training alerts. There were always three B-52s combat loaded with nukes (although the Air Force would neither confirm nor deny their presence) and three KC-135 Stratotankers on alert 24/7 at McCoy Air Force Base. When they scrambled, they would come screaming over my elementary school 15 seconds apart! It was awesome!

@rayatkin3913 15 дней назад

Significant upgrade with new electronics, RR engines etc does not make them "Brand New" .

@johnkirkby4959 15 дней назад

Don't fix what works fine. For its purpose a B-52 replacement would be the same thing with a different name. Glad to hear entirely new ones will be made.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

That is not likely.

@whicker59 11 дней назад

Everytime I see r hear about a B52, I instantly think of Slim Pickens. Ride em, boys. Whoaaaaa hoooo.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

I saw that movie (out in 1964) after I went into the USAF in 1963, By Stanley Kubrick, it was fairly accurate and very funny. And I did learn to stop worrying and love the bomb, (I was born two years before the bomb).

@rschris 14 дней назад

Awesome video , the BuFF IS AWESOME!!

@ahartley3529 13 дней назад

Carswell AFB, 7th Bomb Wing, 1988-1992. I was there when the alert system ended and the Berlin Wall came down. Desert Storm. Such good memories of those days. And the Buff is STILL FLYING. SAC defined my father's 25 year career. And it defined my 11 year service. Great base. Great mission.

@rick-be 8 дней назад

When the shadow of a B-52 passed over us we knew Charlie was in trouble.

@scrappydude1 13 дней назад

A point most overlook in this big upgrade is the brakes. The company I work for is replacing the entire brake system, and replacing the steel disks with carbon. I was machining some of those yesterday.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

A lot better than having magnesium wheels.

@rv9flyer13brotary9 10 дней назад

Upgrading the engines does NOT result in a "Brand New B-52"!

@tommyjohnson3294 13 дней назад

It is unfortunate that many B-52's were scrapped during Reagan's SALT Treaty. The B-52 and F-15 are the best aircraft that are still capable 50 years later.

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

The pages of history will not say it was unfortunate.

@frankfreeman1444 20 дней назад

Love them BUFFs!

@1FokkerAce 11 дней назад

Loved the part about B-52s being upgraded to carry non-nuclear weapons in the 1980s.

@decibellone696 15 дней назад

It is a plane to be proud of, good vid.

@jackel99 13 дней назад

There are no "NEW B-52's", only new engines.

@murrygandy6546 13 дней назад

And new avionics.

@johnparrott4689 14 дней назад

JFC the last B-52 was rolled out in 1962

@Fyp21 21 день назад

One Tuf Lady🙂 And cool B52

@lynnkramer1211 6 дней назад

I never see videos of this bomber without thinking of actor Slim Pickens, same with Jimmy Stewart and the B36.

@larrybanta8858 13 дней назад

Wow that's a great soldier and should be respected

@simonjenkins4481 12 дней назад

My brother was a Radioman 2nd at Barksdale, watching the top-secret 'base-within-a-base' being built, and no one knew what was afoot. Then the first B-52s landed..

@1Truckman 14 дней назад

In the video I noticed the use of another, although groundbound anachronism, the MJ-1 bomb lift truck...I was using the Jammer to load F-105's 60 years ago...The old Continental V-4 gasser made it as unstoppable as the aircraft we serviced, and yet it wouldn't surprise me to see them Muskified with electric motors...

@tconiam 13 дней назад

Worked AGM-69A SRAM maintenance at Ellsworth AFB in the 80's. We had electric-hydaulic jammers in our maintenance facility to eliminate the fumes. I don't think they were converted MJ-1's, but I didn't drive 'em either. The only problem they had was the 463's who didn't pay attention to the cable playing out from the ceiling spools and came to an abrupt stop. One even went so fast as to bend the ceiling spool mount, the cable support post on the jammer, and ripped the cable and wires out of the connector attached to the jammer blowing the breaker as it shorted out. That was a fun repair...being an electronics repair guy, I had got figure out the correct three-phase wiring and repair the cable and connector.

@disabldfirefiter 14 дней назад

The newest BUFF was built in 1962!

@johncass3641 12 дней назад

This is my baby. Worked on the D, G and H for 22 years.

@ayo-1154 9 дней назад

kewl🤘 can u prove it bro' 😉

@johncass3641 8 дней назад

@@ayo-1154 I don't need to prove it. I worked at Boeing for 28 years, retired. I was a technical illustrator and a technical writer on the B52 tech manuals.

@glenfordburrell1076 8 дней назад

Just like Rob Roy's axe or the Cutty Sark, what percentage of the parts of these B52 centurions will actually be the original?

@nbt3663 14 дней назад

The bone is the fastest, hard to track and largest payload. Fix it's parts issues and move on. The B-52 is a Cold War relic.

@MarkSmith-js2pu 14 дней назад

How can these BUFFS escape metal fatigue after all these decades? Don’t the wing spars literally where out over usage?

@patraic5241 13 дней назад

One of the retrofits over the decades was replacing the wings. It got very little press at the time.

@MarkSmith-js2pu 13 дней назад

@@patraic5241 They may have to do them again!

@t.l.robinson2162 7 дней назад

It is more than 60 years old and the B-52 is still B.A!

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

Up to J now.😉

@TheMiningCabinet 14 дней назад

Might want to google what BRAND NEW means.

@pleiadecca 10 дней назад

Does its best at 55,000 feet. Robert S. McNamara made them do it at 10,000 feet over Hanoi. What a genius. What a great great great Sec Def!

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

The Russians could occasionally shoot one down at 55,000 or 10,000 feet. what difference does that make? 17 were shot down. Mistakes were made.

@andypandy9013 21 день назад

They'll be flying on Rolls Royce engines soon. 🙂

@josephmumma6997 20 дней назад

They already are

@josephmumma6997 20 дней назад

Not trying to sound like a know it all but if you look at the engine nacelle front shroud, Pratt and Whitney shroud is smooth, the Rolls Royce shroud has a bigger shroud that’s bigger than the mount housing.

@andypandy9013 20 дней назад

@@josephmumma6997 Thank you. I am aware that the re-engining has not yet started so have edited my reply to say "soon". 👍😃

@user-mg6ce6sy2c 20 дней назад

I thought they got rid of the guns.

@jonathanflugge3557 15 дней назад

@@user-mg6ce6sy2cThey did after Vietnam.

@mcahill135 14 дней назад

There are no “new” B-52s. The B-52H model was built in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. My Dad was stationed at Eglin AFB back in the early to mid 1960s. Eglin had a squadron of B-52s stationed there’s a lot. I’d be playing in my backyard and the B-52s would be holding overhead Niceville. My first (1986) and last (2014) receiver aircraft that I air refueled was a B-52H. The B-52 and the KC-135 airframes are amazing structurally. BTW, as good as the C-130 is they are still manufacturing them (there are no C-130A-H models airworthy or flying today). The KC-135s and B-52s flying today are expected to fly in the USAF for around 100 years. This is unprecedented by just about any other airframes in the world today.

@olddog-fv2ox 14 дней назад

Love the barn doors for flaps

@kchaney56 12 дней назад

As I get older and watch the safety provided us by my parents generation (The Greatest Generation) fade away I have no doubt that the old saying "A good offense is a good defense" is true. We need to make sure that no country would ever consider taking us on because of the terrible price we would exact.

@tedstriker754 15 дней назад

As they install the new engines on the B-52s, will the cartridge start system be added to the new engines?

@assanchez7683 8 дней назад

GREAT JOB

@theheartland1861 16 дней назад

it's the same as rescuing a barn find classic muscle car, and making sure the tires, cooling system, drive train, suspension, gauges, and other controls are in top working condition, then adding some extra goodies to the mix, and surprise people, to make it even better, stronger, and proving the big ol' BUFF is still saying, we still have what it takes, to take care of business💪🤙

@dethray1000 15 дней назад

NONSENSE-->52s are a total waste of money--flying targets-gone in the first hour of a real conflict--nothing but toys,money making junk for the contractors--china,russia can jam anything that flys,floats,rolls--they put all their money into missiles to blast this garbage out of the sky-we don't need them--we do not need neocon warmongers either who bribe all the congress people to buy this garbage--usa is never under any threat from anybody--all bs--building take down on 911 was a inside job--that is the real threat - those people in Israhell who use the usa to do their dirty work--warmonger neocons--sick of them all

@scottryals3191 11 дней назад

I was raised just outside of a SAC base. The approach to one of the runways was right over town. The B52s would do touch and goes on that one. In school, teachers, giving lectures, would stop, mid-sentence, when a plane flew over. The noise level was high enough to rattle the windows (I don't mean a little bit). As the noise level came back down, the teachers would start up again, right where they left off. It happened regularly enough that nobody thought anything of it. I will never forget doing duck and cover drills at my desk, inches away from an entire wall of window glass. I wouldn't have had a chance. That part was disturbing.

@ayo-1154 9 дней назад

prove it

@briancooper2112 14 дней назад

Lemay demanded the side by side cockpit!

@Dozenfury88 16 дней назад

The main reason they'll be around another 50+ years is because their role has changed. They could technically still do old-school gravity bombs in certain theaters, but their role now is large cruise missile (or drone) carriers operating in relative safety behind the lines. The same reason the Tu-95s will be in operation for many years as well, sort of like flying aircraft carriers.

@dethray1000 15 дней назад

52s are a total waste of money--flying targets-gone in the first hour of a real conflict--nothing but toys,money making junk for the contractors--china,russia can jam anything that flys,floats,rolls--they put all their money into missiles to blast this garbage out of the sky-we don't need them--we do not need neocon warmongers either who bribe all the congress people to buy this garbage--usa is never under any threat from anybody--all bs--building take down on 911 was a inside job--that is the real threat - those people in Israhell who use the usa to do their dirty work--warmonger neocons--sick of them all

@tobyihli9470 14 дней назад

The B52 would be out of date except for the US’s ability to achieve air superiority. That creates its relevancy. It’s simply the best.

@stevekane4922 3 дня назад

Went to see them taking off from Oxfordshire during the gulf War thinking this was probably the last chance. Saw my first HMVI on the perimeter. Most of my friends at the time were peaceniks and didn't see how for a true geek that wasn't the point.

@davewilkirson2320 12 дней назад

Good vid

@Trump145 9 дней назад

Got to love the buff❤

@larryrobertson4099 15 дней назад

You are dreaming if you think the B52J or B52K will be ready to fly next year with It's new F130 engines. True, they are off-the-shelf engines with millions of reliable hours. They still have to retrofit all eight engines in four side-by-side, two engine pods mounted on the wings with four pylons. Those engines have never been in that configuration or on pylons before. That will take some time. The B52 is a subsonic, non-stealthy, huge target with almost no maneuverability when under fire. I should know, I flew them in the 70s first in Vietnam then on SAC alert during the cold war with the USSR (if you haven’t heard of it). So it won’t be dropping bombs anymore. It has a standoff role as a cruise missile platform, firing at individual targets with pinpoint accuracy over 1500 miles or more away, safely out of range of their modern air defense systems and interceptors. It will eventually get hypersonic cruise missiles in the same role. My question is, can it even be called a bomber anymore?

@paulzammataro7185 14 дней назад

How about Airborne Utility Vehicle?

@larryrobertson4099 14 дней назад

Good one or, B52J Utility Platform

@dphuntsman 14 дней назад

Larry, what standoff cruise missiles does it carry nowadays?

@larryrobertson4099 14 дней назад

I'm retired but I think it can carry AGM-129s and AGM-86s. Both are nuclear capable.

@patraic5241 13 дней назад

The name will probably stick. Out of hide bound tradition if nothing else. Calling it a cruise missile launch platform would probably be more accurate.

@Mark16v15 15 дней назад

The B-52 is still around NOT because it is some great bomber. It's slow and stealthless. Advances in stealth technology in other aircraft have kept the BUFF around. The B-1 with it's great speed would have replaced it, except its swing wing technology was a costly maintenance nightmare (same goes for the F-14 Tomcat). In fact the B-1 is being phased out. The future of bombers is stealth like the B-2 and B-21. So why do we keep the B-52? Because of the stealthy F-22 (and F-35). Those aircraft get us air superiority because no enemy can tell where they are, and they just shoot down any enemy that wants to try to take them on. Once air superiority is achieved, you could have a flashing "Here We Are" neon sign on your stealthless aircraft, and not have to worry about being shot down. The B-52 is just that. Since the B-52 can be relatively cheaply improved with technology including new engines, it makes more economic sense to do that than to invest in a larger/better comparable non-stealth bomber. Such money for such a bomber would be better spent on a brand a new or existing stealth bomber that you don't have to worry about being shot down. Therefore, the B-52 may be around for another 200 years (assuming its basic airframe stays intact), simply due to economic considerations. At some point don't be surprised if it gets a "pilot-less" upgrade where it's basically converted to a huge drone.

@echohunter4199 17 дней назад

Who else has read the book “Flight of the Old Dog”?

@tonyg6827 14 дней назад

Good ole Patrick McLanahan and friends. There are a few books about 'them'. I am not sure when they are planning to do the 'Old Dog' upgrades to the current airframes though. 🙃

@juliancrooks3031 18 дней назад

The newest B 52 could collect social security. They can update it but at some point the air frame is going to fail from metal fatigue

@gort8203 17 дней назад

The airframe will not fatigue out for another 25 years. That what makes this upgrade cost effective.

@douglasalan5783 13 дней назад

The video never discussed the B-52’s extensive use in Vietnam.

@wanderer5581 14 дней назад

they are not brand new.. just re engined on a great airframe..

@MPrybil 15 дней назад

A GREAT design can almost last forever. “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” Sometimes the military gets it RIGHT! Just bc something is NEW doesn’t mean it’s better!

@ihmcallister 14 дней назад

Not brand new as stated in the title. These are 60+ years old airframes with engine conversions.

@Phxshadowz 10 дней назад

Talk about value!!!

@dennisdubberley2224 8 дней назад

That's when Boeing knew how to build planes.

@Dogsnark 6 дней назад

Didn’t talk about the engines. What upgrades have there been?

@johnarnold893 13 дней назад

Klik Bait, the Air Force is starting a program to fully upgrade the already 60 year old bombers. The last new one was built in 1962.

@Pinzpilot101 10 дней назад

So this was just a clickbait.......no pics of the new engines fitted.?

@TheSaturnV 14 дней назад

I see Buffs heading home to Tinker on a fairly regular basis, and always stop what I'm doing and watch these mesmerizing birds soar overhead.

@htw9594 17 дней назад

I don’t see any new pictures of the new engines mounted ona test vehicle.

@cartmanrlsusall 9 дней назад

Ain't no such thing as a brand new b52

@walkaboutal4992 14 дней назад

Lotsa old B-52s in ready reserve storage at the famous Davis-Monthan AFB Boneyard. If not, their airframe parts could be cannibalize for other in-service B-52 repairs and upgrades.

@Homoprimatesapiens 14 дней назад

Very good bomber for its class. But why do they get rid of the B-58 Hustler bomber?

@dalegillispie8436 14 дней назад

The hustler had a lot of problems and was not fast enough and could not go high enough to not be shot down

@murrygandy6546 13 дней назад

The Hustler was a gas guzzler and was finally retired after they found extensive wiring problems in the airframe where stray current could leak to the weapons. Too expensive to repair. Good decision.

@peterburi2727 13 дней назад

The BUFF is timeless.

@kchaney56 12 дней назад

I had no idea that this plane had a Vulcan cannon in the tail. Can you imagine our B17's in WW2 with a Vulcan Cannon in the tail?

@tedmoss 5 дней назад

No, it would make the plane unflyable because of the weight. Its the radar that makes it effective anyway.

@velchuck 17 дней назад

Love the BUFF!

@opencarry3860 13 дней назад

Just like the F-15, when it works, it works, so keep using it.

@georgesheffield1580 16 дней назад

Note : they haven't built new B 52's in almos 50 years .

@rdmgwinn 15 дней назад

The last B52H rolled out in 1962, 62 years ago. The old girl is well past her manufactures warranty.

@kchaney56 12 дней назад

I have often wondered why they don't just re-design and re-tool and build some crazy dangerous new ones.

@michaeldeierhoi4096 8 дней назад

They have like the B-1 bomber.

@timothydeyoung9689 11 дней назад

"US is Testing Brand New B-52s to Fly for a Full Century". Wait. What?

@DougPoulton 7 дней назад

I suppose the Buff, like the aircraft carrier, is still suitable for creating terror against terrorists but would serve no practical purpose against another super power. The Houthis have shown us a good example of what inexpensive drones can do to well armed Navy war ships. Using a $2M missile to take out a $3K drone is just plain bad math.