Eric Nelson, a B-52 instructor pilot and weapons officer, pointed to the communications upgrades as especially important to the B-52's ability to connect to other platforms.
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A B-21 is better able to avoid detection than a B-52 is, but a B-52 can carry many more munitions than the newer plane, including stealthy cruise missiles.
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Fully loaded, the B-52 can carry 20 of the weapons.
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A U.S. B-52 bomber flight followed that test as well.
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Williams has been involved in the B-52 community since 1975.
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B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
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Minot has one of the nation&aposs two B-52 bomber bases.
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The Air Force is working on modifications for the B-52 bomber.
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"The B-52 is considered to be a standoff platform," he said.
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Some form of the B-52 has been in use since 1955.
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The strikes included a B-52 Stratofortress dropping 24 precision-guided munitions.
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The B-52 could remain so for another 523 years or more.
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The B-52's home is Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
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While fighter jets took off from the base, B-52 bombers did not.
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We have 2nd generation B-52 bombers – their fathers flew the same plane.
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F-18s, F-15Es and a B-52 bomber raced to the scene.
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Besides the B-2, the US operates B-1 and B-52 bombers.
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In 1966, an American B-52 bomber carrying hydrogen bombs exploded over Spain.
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This was the first flyover involving a nuclear-capable B-52 since November.
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The strikes were carried out by B-2 bombers, not B-52 bombers.
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The Air Force also sent six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Guam.
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Pyongyang's statement specifically criticized the inclusion of the nuclear-capable B-52 heavy bombers.
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"My job is to fix the electronic countermeasures on the B-52," McMaster said.
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The B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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In response to reports of the B-52 mission, Chinese military spokesman Senior Col.
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Indeed, the B-52 is more capable than ever – and highly affordable, to boot.
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Boeing built all 213 of the current B-52 bombers between 1960 and 1962.
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The U.S. military flew B-52 bombers across the South China Sea in September.
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Last month, the United States flew a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber over South Korea.
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Four B-52 bombers arrived in England on Thursday for a bomber task force deployment.
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Click here for videos and more coverage of the B-52 and the B-2.
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What it has in years, however, the B-52 makes up in lack of mileage.
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Trump mentioned the "problem" of the "old" B-52 in some of his earlier speeches.
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This bomber is only the second B-52 to ever be brought back from the boneyard.
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The US Air Force flew two B-52 bombers over the South China Sea on Wednesday.
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After North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January, a Guam-based B-52 made the flight.
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Media said these could include B-2 and B-52 bombers, and a nuclear-powered submarine.
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The B-52 is a subsonic high-altitude bomber capable of carrying nuclear and conventional payloads.
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"The B-52 is capable of going anywhere and in any point of time," McMaster said.
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Together, the B-21 and the B-52 will form the future of the bomber fleet.
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The B-52 is also slated to get the Long Range Standoff Missile currently in development.
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Harrison noted, however, the B-52 "Big Ugly Fat Fellow" may be best for the job.
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It is also studying the security of big weapons programs, such as the B-52 bomber.
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The Osprey therefore, by comparison, is much newer than the B-52 or Chinook, to be sure.
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U.S. Central Command last week sent B-52 bombers into the ISIS fight for the first time.
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Trump has dispatched forces including aircraft carriers, B-52 bombers and troops over the past few weeks.
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Fifty-five days into his presidency, Nixon started sending great waves of B-52 bombers over Cambodia.
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Media said the assets could include B-2 and B-52 bombers, and a nuclear-powered submarine.
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After North Korea's fourth nuclear test in January 2016, a Guam-based B-52 made the flight.
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Just days before, the U.S. military flew B-52 bombers in vicinity of the South China Sea.
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The B-52 has been in service since 1955 and can carry both nuclear and conventional weapons.
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This June, the service disclosed that the B-52 had carried a hypersonic missile on flight tests.
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A B-52 Stratofortress at Nellis Air Force Base before Red Flag 20-2, March 5, 2020.
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In the next hours, the Americans threw the Pentagon's arsenal at them, including B-52 strategic bombers.
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The B-52 could then launch a barrage of missiles – perhaps hypersonic ones – to destroy the targets.
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A US B-52 bomber, along with armed drones, dropped 14 munitions on the camp, the official said.
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An enraged U.S. responded by flying nuclear-capable B-52 bombers toward the DMZ to intimidate North Korea.
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The two U.S. B-52 bombers skirted Taiwan's east coast, also in a southerly direction, the ministry added.
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There have been reports that Trump is mulling a proposal that would send B-52 bombers to Korea.
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The aircraft involved included F-15s, A-10s, F-18s, F-16s and a B-52, he said.
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The venerable B-52 bomber will be adapted to take the missile and will soldier on until 2040.
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The B-21 will replace the Air Force's aging B-52 Stratofortress bombers and the B-1B Lancer.
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US B-52 bombers and airmen deployed to the UK in October for Bomber Task Force 20-1.
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Diego Garcia has a 2-mile runway capable of hosting B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers.
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The goal was to determine targets for B-52 bombers flown out of Guam to support ground operations.
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And a future warfare will almost certainly see the involvement of the iconic B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber.
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The U.S. military has sent forces, including aircraft carriers, B-52 bombers and troops to the Middle East.
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The newest B-52 entered service in 1962, and the 159-foot plane became a Cold War icon.
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The newest B-52 entered service in 93, and the 159-foot plane became a Cold War icon.
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A B-52 bomber conducted a low-flight near Korea following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test in January 2016.
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Also last week the US flew B-52 bombers over the South China Sea and East China Sea.
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Also last week, the US flew B-52 bombers over the South China Sea and East China Sea.
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The B-52 is also cheaper to fly on a per-hour basis than most other U.S. bombers.
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Most of the B-52 airframes are original and their longevity is a testimony to the original design engineers.
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B-52 bombers are being modified to become "arsenal planes" carrying scads of missiles for targeting by other aircraft.
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Three generations of pilots have flown his B-52, a scarred old whale of a plane built in 1960.
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The most recent of those flights was by a B-52 in January after a North Korean nuclear test.
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B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers have all been through Andersen AFB as part of this plan.
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Chinese officials complained last December that a U.S. B-52 bomber flew close to one of Beijing's artificial islands.
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The B-52 drops bombs, but is so large and easy to spot that it also sends a message.
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The B-52 is the oldest bomber in the Air Force inventory, having first begun flying in the 1950s.
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Instead, the service used the flight to gather data about its impact on the B-52's flight envelope.
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A B-52 Stratofortress dropped a laser-guided bomb for the first time in nearly a decade this month.
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My friends and I formed an air band that "played" the B-52's "Strobe Light" on tennis rackets.
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Once it detected enemy targets, it could send coordinates to the B-52 still flying safely inside friendly territory.
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Like the B-52, it boasts an enormous payload capacity but is comparatively easy for the enemy to detect.
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"Space is a hostile place," former B-52 bomber pilot and current Lockheed Martin employee Kurt Nelson told me.
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The B-52 strike on Thursday, the Pentagon said, was directed at the Shaykh Sulayman Training Camp in Idlib.
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Since November, F-22 attack planes and B-52 bombers have been used in the exercises targeting drug facilities.
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The earlier flight was the first involving a nuclear-capable B-52 over the South China Sea since November.
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Following the attacks Washington moved around 2,000 troops, an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the region.
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Today it lives on as a radio mainstay, a soundtrack staple, and one of the B-52's signature tunes.
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The appearance of the B-52, a long-range bomber that first went into service in the 1950s, irked Moscow.
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Shanahan authorized the request, expediting the USS Abraham Lincoln's preplanned trip to the Middle East along with B-52 bombers.
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Paul Goossen was the commander of the B-52 squadron located at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
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US Air Force B-52 bombers are in Europe to train with partners and to send a message to Russia.
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A short clip brings you inside the cockpit of a B-52 strategic bomber flying a nuclear alert training sortie.
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Hypothetically, a B-52 loaded with multiple hypersonic weapons can evolve from its standard function into a "missileer," Roper said.
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On Monday, two US B-52 bombers flew near contested islands in the waters, according to US Pacific Air Forces.
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That included an attack by a B-52 bomber which the Pentagon said killed more than 100 al Qaeda militants.
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An Air Force B-52 jet crashed and caught fire in Guam after takeoff on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
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For six hours, the B-52 flew tightly banked routes to give Soar the best view of his potential targets.
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The US demonstrated that commitment when flying a B-52 bomber over South Korea days after North Korea's nuclear test.
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Earlier this month, a contingent of US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers landed at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
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Trump has sent forces including aircraft carriers, B-52 bombers and troops to the Middle East over the past few weeks.
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"Such behavior does not deserve respect," said Deinekin, who said Russia needed to establish what weaponry the B-52 was carrying.
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An American aircraft-carrier group, B-52 bombers and extra American troops have already been sent to the Middle East region.
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The details, per NBC: The microwave weapons can be fit onto air-launched cruise missiles and released from B-52 bombers.
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"Such behaviour does not deserve respect," said Deinekin, who said Russia needed to establish what weaponry the B-52 was carrying.
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At times the exercises have included the use of strategic assets such as B-52 bombers that can carry nuclear weapons.
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The B-52 is expected to fly through the 2050s, and the B-2 accomplished a number of firsts this summer.
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But while it packs a punch, the B-1 remains disarmed of nuclear weapons -- unlike the B-52 and B-2.
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After nearly an hour and some delays, the B-52 needed to turn back to base without resolving the minor mystery.
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A B-52 Stratofortress lands at Nellis Air Force Base before the start of Red Flag 20-2, March 5, 2020.
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Air Force crew chiefs at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana are tasked with keeping B-52 bombers ready to fly.
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He said he appreciated being able to walk around the B-52, a type of plane still in use by the military.
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Last year, B-52 bombers operating out of Qatar flew at least two missions in Afghanistan for the first time since 673.
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An estimated 10,2023 American troops maintain and fly F-22 fighters and B-52 bombers over Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan from there.
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The highlight are Julie's childhood bedroom posters of Kids in the Hall and The B-52's, which both make perfect sense.
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An American aircraft-carrier strike group is steaming towards the Persian Gulf, joined by B-52 bombers, after unspecified threats from Iran.
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The U.S. has sent thousands of additional troops, B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets to the region amid the heightened tensions.
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The U.S. says it's deploying forces including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf to counter Iranian threats.
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To counter Iran's threats, the U.S. military has sent forces including aircraft carriers, B-52 bombers and troops to the Middle East.
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An American B-52 circles above, F16s fly over the battle field, and helicopters clatter, firing volleys of missiles into the city.
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Goossen said the images were appearing on base, including in restrooms, dorms, vehicles and on bombs put on the B-52's.
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A bomber task force of four B-52 Stratofortresses and about 350 airmen began a deployment to RAF Fairford in England Thursday.
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The B-52's nuclear option of choice is the AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile, commonly referred to as the ALCM.
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The upgrade will allow the B-52 to stream a real-time feed that provides intelligence and updates to the mission plan.
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According to an earlier Air Force news release, B-52 Stratofortress bomber crews began experimenting with a version of IAE in 2013.
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Inside the B-52, affectionately known as a Buff (as in "Big, Ugly, Fat," followed by an expletive), the noise was deafening.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson, for example, personally approved targets for B-52 bombing runs in Operation Rolling Thunder, during the Vietnam War.
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The Air Force has decided on its bombers of the future: the new B-21 Raiders and the venerable B-52 Stratofortress.
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The B-52 bomber, a critical component of the US strategic bomber fleet, is no longer approved to carry nuclear gravity bombs.
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"The B-52 demonstrates our continued resolve to apply persistent pressure on (ISIS) and defend the region in any future contingency," Brown said.
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In 2014, the Air Force began reviewing possible re-engining schemes for the B-52, which is expected to serve into the 2040s.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force successfully flight-tested a hypersonic weapon from a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced Monday.
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For example, the Trump administration sent the USS Abraham Lincoln, B-52 bombers, and a Patriot antimissile battery to the region in May.
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A wing-tip gear door from a US Air Force B-52 bomber fell into a British woman's front garden on October 23.
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The US, for instance, cut off the wings of B-52 bombers and splayed them out in a "boneyard" in the Arizona desert.
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"New, stealthy JASSM missiles could be delivered by B-1B and B-52 (and now likely F-15E and F-16)," Mount said.
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Earlier this month, the United States sent an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf, citing Iranian threats.
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And, with an eye on cost-effectiveness, he and President Carter halted the B-1 bomber as a successor to the B-52.
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NATO's Resolute Support mission said on Tuesday the air campaign had been expanded in the north with B-52 bombers striking Taliban positions.
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The Americans activated an elaborate plan to trap and slaughter Communist forces with coordinated B-52 strikes and other air and artillery missions.
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"The future of the bomber force for the Air Force is in a B-21 and a heavily modified B-52," he said.
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Earlier on Tuesday, A Russian Su-27 jet fighter intercepted a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber on Russia's border over the Baltic Sea.
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Consider, the U.S. Air Force's B-52 heavy bomber might be more than 50 years old – but it is far from worn out.
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The president expressed particular spite at the B-52 bombers that the United States has flown over South Korea in missions from Guam.
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He had seen B-52 carpet-bombing missions before, and he knew they were the wrong planes for the circumstances at Hill 875.
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" Through the next decades, Mr. Carney's playing was welcome at sessions for albums like "Mesopotamia" by the B-52's, St. Vincent's "St.
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The US Air Force has brought a B-52 bomber back from the dead, pulling "Wise Guy" out of the "boneyard" for continued service.
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One is an overflight of the border between North and South Korea with a nuclear-capable bomber, the B-52 or the B-2.
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An Air Force representative on Monday denied a report that B-52 bombers rigged with nuclear weapons are being prepared for 24-hour alert.
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BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La., and WASHINGTON — The B-52 bomber first flew in 1952, but remains a vital part of America's nuclear deterrent.
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The acquisition chief said the service has been working with the Air Force Global Strike Command on hypersonic weapons tests on the B-52.
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I knew the words to, say, "Holding Out For a Hero" or B-52's "Love Shack" because I bought that record on vinyl.
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There were a lot of relevant references elsewhere that I adored, but FUN HOME, ANIMAL HOUSE and the B-52's classic were requisites.
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Mr. Rollins never married, although he had a long-term relationship with the singer Kate Pierson of the rock group the B-52's.
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That new deployment came in addition to the 1,500 troops, an aircraft carrier group and B-52 bombers sent to the region last month.
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They are living in WWII-era barracks on the Biggs airfield at Fort Bliss army base, which used to hold alert B-52 bombers.
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As each B-52 is powered by eight turbojets paired in four pods, the bomber still carried seven engines at the time, but, like, still.
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Like the B-52, it's a Cold War creation that's still in service, and likely will be until the long-awaited F-35 enters service.
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Moscow time to intercept the B-52 flying along Russia's border over the international waters of the Baltic Sea, according to Tass Russian News Agency.
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Heavy airpower can be called in from the Pacific island of Guam, through which the US rotates B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers.
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The maintainers are proud of the fact that they are the airmen charged with making sure that the B-52 takes flight when called upon.
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So far, 60 of the 76 aircraft have received modifications, said Alan Williams, deputy B-52 program element monitor at Air Force Global Strike Command.
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The return to use was made possible by the Conventional Rotary Launcher, a bomb-bay weapons platform introduced to the B-52 fleet in 2017.
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Washington (CNN)US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers flew a training mission over the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to the US military.
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The Army and Air Force teamed up in Hawaii for a live-fire exercise involving B-52 bombers, Army attack helicopters, and active artillery fire.
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This includes 3,500 troops sent to Saudi Arabia on top of myriad other military assets such as a carrier strike group and B-52 bombers.
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Unfortunately, Moscow has unhelpfully raised concerns about valid US procedures to remove some submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers and B-52 bombers from treaty accountability.
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There have long been concerns that the B-52 lacks the capability to penetrate modern air defenses to deliver a nuclear strike with gravity bombs.
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In 1968, a B-52 flying near Thule with four Mark 28 hydrogen bombs crashed, hitting the ice at more than 500 miles per hour.
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Earlier this week, the US flew B-52 bombers over the South China Sea and East China Sea, areas considered sensitive by the Chinese military.
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Washington (CNN)Two US B-52 bombers flew near contested islands in the South China Sea Tuesday, according to a statement from Pacific Air Forces.
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According to USNI News, the LRASM could eventually end up a fixture of the Air Force B-52 Stratofortress and the Navy P-8A Poseidon.
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Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota tweeted out a picture of Shia LaBeouf&aposs face photoshopped onto the front of a B-52 bomber.
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In 1968, a B-52 flying near Thule with four Mark 28 hydrogen bombs crashed, hitting the ice at more than 500 miles per hour.
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The U.S. Air Force has sent regular rotations of B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers as well as top-line fighter aircraft to Andersen.
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Photo: GettyA B-52 Stratofortress landed safely on Wednesday after an engine "dropped out" over an unpopulated area of North Dakota, Defense News reports, holy shit.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Air Force's B-52 Bomber has been around since the 1950s and can hold up to 70,000 pounds of weapons.
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In Bao Ninh's "The Sorrow of War", ghosts haunt the Jungle of Screaming Souls, and severed limbs rain from the sky during a B-52 raid.
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Hired by USA Today, he went to Bosnia, Kosovo and Haiti, and was the first to cover a cruise-missile launch from inside a B-52.
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I taught at Barksdale, La., at the pilot weapons training school where I trained pilots on the weapons systems and weapons for the B-52 bombers.
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Northrop has said it looks forward to resuming work on the new warplanes, which will replace the aging fleet of B-1 and B-52 bombers.
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More recently, officials ordered the accelerated deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to the region along with a B-52 bomber task force.
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And for advocates of the air-based leg of the nuclear triad, keeping the B-52 as up to date as possible is a good thing.
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On May 5, he announced the US would be sending aircraft carriers and B-52 bomber planes to the Persian Gulf to counter any Iranian aggression.
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More recently, officials ordered the accelerated deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to the region along with a B-52 bomber task force.
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The United States responded to the East China Sea ADIZ by flying B-52 bombers through the zone in a show of force in November 2013.
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As a precaution, the Pentagon has moved an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers, a Patriot missile interceptor battery and more naval firepower to the gulf region.
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It could not ignore the deployment to the region of some 2,500 American troops, an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers, missile batteries and the rest.
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Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan authorized the request, expediting the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's preplanned trip to the Middle East along with B-52 bombers.
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B-52 bombers based in Louisiana are expected to join the B-1s stationed on Guam later this month, adding to the long-range aerial firepower.
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By the end of Operation Linebacker II, the US Air Force had flown more than 700 B-52 bomber sorties and dropped 19933,000 tons of ordnance.
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During the waning hours of the Obama administration, a B-52 jet bombed what the Pentagon described as a Qaeda training camp, killing about 100 militants.
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The U.S. then announced the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Middle East to counter "clear indications" of Iranian threats.
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The second — and best-known — version of "Rock Lobster" would serve as the lead single on the B-52's self-titled debut, released in July 1979.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co has been awarded a $400 million U.S. defense contract for B-1 and B-52 bomber engineering services, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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The U.S. has also sent thousands of troops, an aircraft carrier, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets to the Middle East in recent weeks.
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Trump warned on Monday Iran would "suffer greatly" if it targeted U.S. interests after Washington deployed an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Middle East.
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Our aircraft-carrier battle groups are steaming into the Persian Gulf and our Air Force is sending B-52 bombers to forward bases on the Arabian peninsula.
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The B-52 is currently equipped to carry up to 103 AGM-86B air-launched cruise missiles as part of its role in the US's nuclear triad.
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Last month, the United States flew a B-52 bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons on a low-level flight over the South following the North's Jan.
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Dr. Sagan reports that during the operation, code-named Giant Lance, one of the B-52 bombers carrying thermonuclear arms came dangerously close to having an accident.
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And with a jump in virus cases in Louisiana, there is fresh concern about isolating critical B-52 bomber crews at Barksdale Air Force Base, officials say.
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In 1968, an American B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed near the base, exposing the island and a Greenlandic clean-up crew to radioactive contamination.
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Six US Air Force B-52 bombers are being dispatched to Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean island that acts as a US military hub in the region.
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" It turned out, though, that my Emerson students were then listening to songs by the B-52's with lyrics like "Why don't you dance with me?
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"Roam," by the B-52's, played on the store's speakers, as Scher unfolded a map of Paris and noted the omission of the city's poorer neighborhoods.
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On Monday, a US B-52 bomber flew near contested islands in the sea, according to US Pacific Air Forces, which oversees air operations in the region.
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"When I first started flying in the B-52, we went down to 300 to 500 feet above the ground," he said in an interview in August.
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Perhaps he picked up the issue from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a primary opponent, who talked about the B-52 during an August 2015 GOP debate.
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Tensions began rising in May when the U.S. rushed thousands of additional troops, an aircraft carrier, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets to the Mideast.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. has rushed an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and F-22 fighters to the region and Iran recently shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone.
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In October 1969 the US went on nuclear alert, loading up 18 B-52 bombers with nuclear warheads and aiming them right at the Soviet Union's eastern border.
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The U.S. air strikes mounted against Fateh al-Sham in recent weeks included an attack by a B-52 bomber last week that killed dozens of its fighters.
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Russia's Defence Ministry said earlier on Thursday that it had scrambled fighter jets to intercept a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber after it began flying toward Russia's borders.
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On Sunday, a U.S. B-52 bomber flew over Osan, South Korea in what officials said was a show of solidarity with Seoul following the purported nuclear test.
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The US Air Force has sent some of its largest aircraft to battle the Islamic State, including B-52 bombers and RC-135V/W Rivet Joint spy planes.
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The B-52 bomber is part of the 2nd Bomb Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, which is deployed to Royal Air Force Fairford in Gloucestershire.
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He delivered a lecture on handicapping horse racing that helped Navy scientists search for a hydrogen bomb lost after a B-52 crash near Palomares, Spain, in 1966.
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The service intends to integrate the weapon with its nuclear-capable bombers — the B-52, B-2 and B-21 — with initial fielding slated for the late 2020s.
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And B-52 strategic bombers returned for the first time in years, with American officials saying the huge warplanes supported missions against Islamic State affiliates in eastern Afghanistan.
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The B-52, the Air Force's oldest bomber, is getting changes to how it finds targets, what bombs it can drop on them, and how it defends itself.
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The B-52 can be armed with an array of nuclear and conventional weaponry, and it's set to take on some of the Air Force's most advanced munitions.
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The crisis in the Persian Gulf, which led the U.S. to dispatch an aircraft carrier and extra B-52 bombers last month did not cause prices to spike.
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The US has three bombers — the B-1B Lancer, the stealth B-23 Spirit, and the B-52 Stratofortress — to deliver thousands of tons of firepower in combat.
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Expert Marine Corps marksmen kept the communist forces from entering the base, but it was American airpower, especially the powerful B-52 bombers, that ultimately broke the siege.
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American warplanes arrived in waves, including Reaper drones, F-22 stealth fighter jets, F-3003E Strike Fighters, B-52 bombers, AC-130 gunships and AH-64 Apache helicopters.
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In a sign of readiness, the US planned to deploy six B-52 bombers for Iran operations to the British territory of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
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But while the US routinely sends bombers in the vicinity of the South China Sea, Monday's flight was the first involving a nuclear-capable B-52 since November.
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Boeing conservatively estimates that the B-52 bombers can safely fly until the mid-423s, at which point the aluminum covering their wings could begin to tear apart.
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"Legendary groups got their start in college towns, like the B-52's, who became famous after playing at the University of Georgia" in Athens, Mr. Weprin said.
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Related: The US Trolled Kim Jong-un by Flying a B-52 Bomber Over South Korea "He was not dragged away and he wasn't yelled at," Guttridge said.
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The massive B-52, based in Guam and capable of carrying nuclear weapons, could be seen in a low flight over Osan Air Base at around noon (0300 GMT).
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"I believe they would normally be delivered by bomber (B-2, B-1, or perhaps B-52) which could fly from Andersen Air Base on Guam," he told CNN.
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"We hope all parties can maintain restraint, proceed cautiously, and avoid successively escalating tensions," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei when asked about the U.S. B-52 flight.
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But on Tuesday, that all changed with North Korea slamming the drills and their inclusion of the US's B-52 nuclear-capable bomber, something which regional media had reported.
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In June, the US Air Force deployed long-range B-52 bombers and 800 airmen in support of joint exercises with NATO allies and partners taking place across Europe.
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BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, Louisiana, and WASHINGTON — The B-52 is getting new engines, but that's not the only modification coming soon to the US Air Force's oldest bomber.
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" "What initially was a visor lens for B-52 pilots was later refined into glass that fit entirely within the viewing ports of an airplane cockpit, with 6-in.
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Likewise, the Pentagon said it had no plans to change its military exercises with South Korea after news reports indicated they would no longer include B-52 heavy bombers.
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BTF 20-1 wrapped up in mid-November, after 4 B-52 bombers spent four weeks flying all over Europe, including trips to the Arctic and the Middle East.
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Lisa Clark, retired, was the United States Air Force's first female B-52 Bomber navigator in 83 and later went on to serve as a B-1 Bomber pilot.
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Goetze was told that a number of "Buffs" — giant B-52 Stratofortress bombers — were on their way to carpet-bomb the area and that he needed to clear out.
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A B-52 Stratofortress squadron commander in the U.S. Air Force was fired Tuesday after penis drawings were displayed on his cockpit screens during a recent deployment, according to reports.
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B-52 bombers from Guam flew over the Korean Peninsula and are now stationed at a U.S. naval base in the Indian Ocean, giving them faster access to North Korea.
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The B-52 was designed to attack Moscow's most vital targets via the North Pole in the event of a nuclear war when the Soviet Union still existed, Deinekin said.
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Details: Shortly after the Navy's review concluded, U.S. B-52 bombers flew over hotly contested islands in the South China Sea — an activity that has become routine in recent months.
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Scott West, the director of current operations for the Air Force, airmen are flying some aircraft and bombers, like the B-52 Stratofortress, that are more than 5003 years old.
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The United States has been conducting sea and air patrols near artificial islands China is building in the disputed Spratlys archipelago, including by two B-52 strategic bombers in November.
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Along with new weapons, the B-52 is getting upgrades to its conventional rotary launcher that will double the number of weapons the aircraft can launch from its internal bay.
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On Wednesday, two American B-52 strategic bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, flew over the disputed South China Sea area for a second time in 10 days.
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In an interview Friday after speaking with B-52 pilots at al-Udeid, McKenzie said it's hard to know whether that gap in a bomber presence had emboldened the Iranians.
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I ended the pedicure with a rose beige in LeChat's B-52, but it was almost an afterthought given that my feet had probably last been that soft at birth.
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The potential fourth article of impeachment referred to the fact that for 14 months, before the United States' invasion, the president approved hundreds of B-52 strikes on that country.
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While the B-52 has been receiving a number of upgrades to keep it flying until at least 2050, the long-range bomber remains vulnerable to modern strategic air defenses.
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The US advisers called in for artillery and air support which included F-15E jets, MQ-9 drones, B-52 bombers, an AC-130 gunship and AH-64 Apache helicopters.
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B-52 bombers A US official said Tuesday that six of the massive, eight-engine bombers would be sent to the air base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
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The US has rotated B-1, B-52 and B-2 bombers out of Andersen Air Force Base in Guam since 2004 as part of its Continuous Bomber Presence mission.
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While the B-52 is sticking around into the 2050s, keeping the B-1 viable until its 2036 sunset date has been a priority for Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Still, that skepticism didn't stop the U.S. from flying a U.S. B-52 bomber over South Korea on Sunday a clear show of strength as well as alliance with South Korea.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The United States flew a nuclear-capable B-52 long-distance bomber over South Korea on Sunday in a show of force after North Korea's fourth nuclear test.
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We've got young men in Air Force B-52s, one in particular, he's flying a B-52 that his father flew in the '80s and his grandfather flew in the '50s.
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The 185,000-pound B-52 is one of the oldest active aircraft in the US Air Force, having first entered service in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War.
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The move could complicate surveillance patrols carried out routinely by U.S. and Japanese aircraft as well as flights by U.S. B-52 long-range bombers, operations China objected to last November.
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A US defense official who has knowledge of the mission's original flight plan said it called for the nuclear capable B-52 bombers to fly about 20 miles from the islands.
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B-52 bombers loaded with atomic weapons took off from bases in California and Washington State and headed toward the Soviet Union, then flew in loops above the polar ice cap.
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The craft had to be drop-launched from the wing of a specially modified B-52 Stratofortress but could reach the very edge of space, setting altitude records for winged aircraft.
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The AFGSC is responsible for the United States's three intercontinental ballistic missile wings as well as the Air Force's bomber force, including the B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers.
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Trump is sending an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East to counter what Washington has called a heightened threat from Iran in the region.
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Patti Smith, Grace Jones, Debbie Harry and Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson of the B-52's had shown women ways of being and creating that freed our minds and bodies.
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The B-2 is currently one of three strategic bombers currently in use by the US Air Force, the other two being the B-52 Stratofortress, and the B-1 Lancer.
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That includes airborne early warning aircraft, maritime patrol planes, Patriot air and missile defense batteries, B-52 bombers, a carrier strike group, armed Reaper drones and other engineering and support personnel.
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Castle Air Force Base, about two hours south of San Francisco, had recently been scheduled to close, and the hangars that had once housed B-52 bombers were available for lease.
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Washington (CNN)A US B-52 bomber flew near contested islands in the South China Sea on Monday, according to US Pacific Air Forces, which oversees air operations in the region.
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The publication Defense One reported Sunday that the Air Force could soon put its fleet of B-52 bombers on "a ready-to-fly posture" for the first time since 1991.
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According to an NBC News report, the weapon — which is still under development — could be put on a cruise missile and shot at an enemy country from a B-52 bomber.
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Two US B-52 strategic bombers flew over the contested South China Sea on Wednesday, according to the US Pacific Air Force, the second such flight in 10 days despite China's objections.
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Captain Joseph Trench Niez, the 28-year-old navigator on a B-52 bomber stationed on the Pacific island of Guam, enthuses about reassuring allies with sorties around the Philippines and Japan.
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U.S. B-52 bomber flies over South Korea in solidarity However, a former U.S. Army senior intelligence officer who served there suggested the purpose was either surveillance or instigation by North Korea.
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Earlier this month, the US Air Force deployed long-range B-52 bombers and 800 airmen to the United Kingdom in support of joint exercises with NATO allies and partners across Europe.
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The nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress took part in a series of joint exercises on Russia's doorstep -- specifically in the Baltic Sea, the Arctic and along Russia's border with several NATO partners.
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The visit comes just two days after the US Air Force flew B-52 bombers in the vicinity of the South China Sea, where China has built military fortifications on contested islands.
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RAF Typhoon FGR4 aircraft, based at RAF Coningsby, carried out a practice intercept on US B-52 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford, UK, as part of Bomber Task Force Europe 20-1.
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Lockheed Martin's AGM-183A Advanced Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), an HGV that was first test-launched from a B-52 bomber this year, can apparently reach the staggering speed of Mach 20.
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The US has now expedited the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's preplanned trip to the Middle East along with multiple B-52 bombers, inching America and Iran ever closer to a fight.
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Those have included one by two B-52 strategic bombers in November and by a U.S. Navy destroyer that sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the Paracels last month.
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"The 307th AMXS is on the leading edge of weapons loading and giving the rest of the B-52 maintenance community the data they need for unique scenarios like this," he said.
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In June, Russia scrambled a jet to intercept a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 bomber it said was flying over the Baltic, in an incident that had echoes of the Cold War.
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The venerable B-52 bomber needs a number of upgrades, with this particular system serving as the kind of under-the-radar impact that a CR would cause over the long term.
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The drills also saw Pacific Air Forces&apos first off-board laser spot track between the US Army&aposs RQ-7 Shadow Unmanned Aerial System and the B-52&aposs targeting pod.
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There have been repeated close calls and near accidents, including as recently as 2007 when an American B-52, mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, flew across the United States.
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The military's post-action report mentions everything from a B-52 strategic bomber and an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter to an M142 truck-mounted rocket launcher being used in the operation.
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The 211 precision-guided munitions dropped by the B-52 Stratofortress are the most ever dropped by one of the Air Force's oldest active aircraft, the service said in a press release.
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During the Vietnam War, Hayden was an intelligence officer, guiding pilots of B-52 bombers; I had a similar position when I worked with the Army, using electronic sensors to guide artillery.
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More recently, the Air Force announced it had plans to test a laser weapon on an AC-130J gunship, and that they were working on arming B-52 bombers with defensive lasers.
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He also said South Korea wants "strategic assets" like US aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and B-52 bombers to deploy to the peninsula more frequently, though not to be permanently housed there.
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In recent weeks, tensions between Washington and Tehran soared over the U.S. deploying an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf over a still-unexplained threat it perceives from Tehran.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States deployed a B-52 bomber on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea on Sunday, a show of force following North Korea's nuclear test last week.
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Those have included one by two B-52 strategic bombers in November and by a U.S. Navy destroyer that sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island in the Paracels group last month.
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The United States sent the aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Middle East in a move U.S. officials said aimed to counter threats from Iran to American forces in the region.
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The two-week air forces drills, which began Friday, comprise roughly 100 warplanes, including eight F-22 radar-evading fighters and a number of B-52 bombers and F-15K jets, Yonhap reported.
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"The crew of Russia's Sukhoi-27 jet approached the aircraft staying at a safe distance, identified it as a US strategic bomber B-52 and escorted it for some time," the report said.
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Last month, a bomber task force composed of six Air Force B-52 bombers and 450 troops from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana returned to the United States after training in Britain.
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The US Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress bombers to Diego Garcia, a military hub that acts as a strategic location for operations in both the Middle East and the Pacific.
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But they were also accompanied by an intense air campaign that included B-52 bombers last year, staples of the early part of the war that had not been used for many years.
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Earlier this week, US B-52 bombers flew from Guam and transited through the South China Sea, an area where the Chinese government has built islands and established military facilities on disputed features.
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DOHA (Reuters) - American B-52 Stratofortress bombers sent to the Middle East over what Washington describes as threats from Iran have arrived at a U.S. base in Qatar, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said.
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In a show of force and support for its allies in the region, the United States on Sunday sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber based in Guam on a flight over South Korea.
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"The crew of Russia's Sukhoi-27 jet approached the aircraft staying at a safe distance, identified it as a U.S. strategic bomber B-52 and escorted it for some time," the Defense Ministry said.
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Beyond highlighting nightlife's boundary-breaking nature, the exhibition's title also references The B-52's song about party crashers—as a nod to how we aimed to "crash" academia's refusal to take nightlife seriously.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co has been awarded a $14.3 billion contract for the modification, modernization, engineering and testing of weapons systems for the B-1 and B-52 bombers, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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This has clearly grated on nerves in Beijing, as did a flight last month of American B-52 bombers over the South China Sea and East China Sea, which Beijing called a "provocative" action.
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But airstrikes conducted by United States and Afghan forces increased by more than 50 percent — including, for the first time in years, the reintroduction of American B-52 strategic bombers to the Afghan battlefield.
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Earlier this month, the US Air Force deployed B-52 bombers and 800 airmen to the United Kingdom in support of joint exercises with NATO allies and partners that are taking place across Europe.
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The base, which was built by French contractors over a decade ago, is one of the few U.S. airbases overseas where B-52 bombers, America's largest warplane, can land due to the long runways.
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In one of the strikes a US B-52 used 2,000-pound bombs to destroy a facility and 50 barrels of opium, which Nicholson said held a street value of millions of US dollars.
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The U.S. reportedly flew a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber over South Korea on Sunday in an unmistakeable show of force days after North Korea claimed to have successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb.
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In Qatar, the US has B-1B Lancers replacing the old deployment of B-52 Stratofortresses, and B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are never far away, thanks to refueling and bases around the world.
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Earlier this month, Russia scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 strategic bomber it said was flying over the Baltic Sea near its border, according to a Reuters report.
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On May 5, National Security Adviser John Bolton released a statement announcing the US was deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Middle East to counter threats from Iran.
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For the nation's nuclear-capable bomber force, including the aging B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 stealth bombers, there are plans underway to replace them with Northrop Grumman's B-21 long-range strike bomber.
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Yet, since May, the Pentagon has committed thousands of new troops to the region, along with B-52 bombers, Patriot air-defense missiles, and a carrier strike group led by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.
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By comparison, under Mr. Obama, the Air Force killed more than 100 Qaeda militants in Syria in the waning hours of his presidency by dropping bombs with no memorable name from B-52 planes.
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WASHINGTON — As the clock wound down on Barack Obama's presidency, an Air Force B-52 bomber carried out a punishing airstrike against a training camp of Al Qaeda in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday.
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Also Sunday, the U.S. military said a B-52 bomber and an aircraft carrier dispatched to the Mideast over a perceived threat from Iran have conducted a joint exercise together in the Arabian Sea.
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B-52's frontman, Fred Schneider, and his side project, The Superions, are suing their record label, claiming it failed to live up to any of the holly jolly obligations of their Xmas album.
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The U.S. military said last week that a number of B-52 bombers would be part of additional forces being sent to the Middle East following indications of possible preparations for an attack by Iran.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Three U.S. Air Force planes, including two B-52 bombers, flew near Taiwan on Wednesday, the island's defense ministry said, after Taiwan's air force scrambled earlier in the week to intercept Chinese jets.
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Earlier this week, staff were evacuated from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, while U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East.
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Earlier this week staff were evacuated from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, while U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East.
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MOSCOW, June 6 (Reuters) - A Russian Su-27 jet fighter intercepted a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber on Russia's border over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, Russian news agencies quoted Russia's Defence Ministry as saying.
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"The B-52 demonstrates our continued resolve to apply persistent pressure on Daesh and defend the region in any future contingency," said Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Brown, commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
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Russia reacted negatively to Norway's demand for a stronger US and NATO presence in the High North, as well as flights of American B-52 bombers during joint exercises with NATO close to Russia's border.
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The Lancer is a long-range, multi-role heavy bomber and has been in service since 1985, although its predecessor, the B-1A, was developed in the 1970s as a replacement for the B-52.
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Four US Air Force B-52 bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana arrived in England with about 300 airmen on October 10 for a bomber task force deployment.
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For example, last year, the service posted a public request for information to identify contractors that could offer insights on how to best integrate newer and much heavier bombs under the B-52's wings.
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A short-term CR, the Pentagon said, would delay procurement of "critical processing chips/circuit cards" and cause an 18-month slip in the program, which could impact mission-capable rates for the B-52.
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The B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer, and B-2 Spirit bombers coupled with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile-defense system make Guam the epitome of the US's ability to project power.
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That was why on Wednesday the North vehemently protested South Korean news reports that American B-52 long-range bombers and F-22 stealth fighter jets had participated in the current drills, Mr. Cheon said.
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"We felt like we had the place to ourselves," said Pat Irwin, a musician and composer who for years played with The B-52's and settled in Long Island City in the mid-1980s.
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The intelligence was one of the critical reasons the US decided to move an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers into the region, several US officials with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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Earlier this week, U.S. staff were evacuated from the American embassy in Baghdad, while U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East.
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The US military has also been beefing up its presence in the region, jointly deploying three strategic bombers, the B-52 Stratofortress, B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit, to the region for the first time.
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The U.S. military said last week that a number of B-52 bombers would be part of additional forces being sent to the Middle East following troubling indications of possible preparations for an attack by Iran.
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The B-21 stealth bomber will modernize the Air Force's aging bombers, including the B-52 built in the 1960s as well as the B-2, a stealth bomber made about 20 years ago by Northrop.
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Washington then sent an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the region last month in a show of force against what U.S. officials say are Iranian threats to its troops and interests there.
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The U.S. military has sent forces, including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers, to the Middle East to counter what the Trump administration says are "clear indications" of threats from Iran to U.S. forces there.
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"[The] 85033 EBS aircrew members confirmed, it was common practice for aircrews to create what was commonly referred to as 'dick pics' using the Microsoft Paint application in the B-52 [redacted] display," the investigation said.
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The Air Force is also adding Link 16 to the B-52, which is one of the last of the service's aircraft to get that NATO-standard communications link, said Scot Oathout, Boeing's bombers program director.
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Earlier this month, a Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. B-52 bomber, and in May another Russian jet flew within 85033 feet of a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon spy plane over the Baltic Sea.
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Military sources said the B-52, which was joined by U.S. F-85033 and South Korean F-15 fighters, flew near an air base close to the North-South border before returning to its Guam base.
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Washington (CNN)The US Air Force is deploying long-range B-52 bombers and 800 airmen to the United Kingdom in support of joint exercises with NATO allies and partners taking place across Europe in June.
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The Pentagon is also developing what it calls an "arsenal plane," a B-1 or B-52 heavy bomber modified to launch weapons at targets designated by aircraft, potentially including UCAVs, flying ahead of the bomber.
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"We've still been able to utilize LGB's underneath the wings of the B-52, but they don't do very well when carried externally because they are susceptible to icing and other weather conditions," said Lt. Col.
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North Korea said it was pulling out of the talks with South Korea after denouncing U.S.-South Korean "Max Thunder" air combat drills, which it said involved U.S. stealth fighters, B-52 bombers and "nuclear assets".
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As a result, the Pentagon sent B-52 bombers this week to Al Udeid air base in Qatar, and the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier passed through the Suez Canal on its way to the Persian Gulf.
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"If we don't replace these systems, quite simply they will age even more, and become unsafe, unreliable, and ineffective," Carter said, speaking at a lectern in front of a B-52 bomber loaded with cruise missiles.
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While the US remains cautiously optimistic that the dialogue could eventually provide fertile ground for diplomacy, the US Air Force has deployed six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Guam, adding more firepower to the region.
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He produced Madonna's blockbuster album "Like a Virgin", the B-52's comeback multi-platinum album "Cosmic Thing" and other artists Rodgers produced or recorded for include Mick Jagger, Grace Jones, Cyndi Lauper, and Diana Ross.
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Ralph Carney, a saxophonist and jokingly self-described "man of a thousand instruments" heard on albums by Tom Waits, the Black Keys, St. Vincent, Elvis Costello, the B-52's and Allen Ginsberg, died on Dec.
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The Air Force said in a statement that the exercise saw F/A-18 Super Hornets, MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters and E-2D Growlers from the USS Abraham Lincoln fly with the B-52 bomber.
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Trump is sending an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East to counter what the United States calls a heightened threat from Iran to American soldiers and interests in the region.
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The general has just sent a B-52 squadron to drop nuclear bombs on Russia; the end of the world is minutes away, and Mandrake is trying to get Ripper to tell him the planes' recall code.
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Tuesday's live-fire SINKEX exercise in the Pacific also saw missiles launched from other US Navy aircraft, bombs dropped from US Air Force B-52 bombers, and Harpoon missiles launched two stealth frigates from the Singapore Navy.
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B-52 crews from both RAF Fairford and Anderson Air Force Base in Guam also conducted training missions in an area east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, the Air Force said on Wednesday.
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The nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress will take part in a series of joint exercises that primarily take place on Russia's doorstep -- specifically in the Baltic Sea, the Arctic and along Russia's border with several NATO partners.
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For the last 14 years, the U.S. Air Force's B-503B Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress and B-2 Spirit bombers have continuously rotated through Guam in an effort to show American commitment to allies in the region.
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For the last 14 years, the U.S. Air Force's B-1B Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress and B-95 Spirit bombers have continuously rotated through Guam in an effort to show American commitment to allies in the region.
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Trump is sending an aircraft carrier group, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East to counter what the United States calls a heightened threat from Iran to U.S. soldiers and interests in the region.
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The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, deployed as a warning to Iran, passed through Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday and American B-52 bombers have also arrived at a U.S. base in Qatar, U.S. Central Command said.
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While the latest deployment may act as extra support, it&aposs not the first time the Defense Department has sent a B-52 bomber task force to the region in recent months as a response to Iran.
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A B-52 cost just $30 million to build in current dollars, compared to $523 million for a B-1, a whopping $3 billion for a B-2 and a projected $550 million for a B-21.
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For the last 14 years, the U.S. Air Force's B-1B Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress and B-5003 Spirit bombers have continuously rotated through Guam in an effort to show American commitment to allies in the region.
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President Richard Nixon approved B-52 strikes on suspected enemy locations in Cambodia from March 1969, and at the end of April 1970 he sent American ground forces across the frontier to find and destroy enemy sanctuaries.
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The air campaign against ISIS is "taking a toll on our aircraft, our readiness and our airmen" but the "venerable B-52 ... remains ready and able to meet combatant commander requirements," she said during a Pentagon press briefing.
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It doesn't mean postponing or canceling joint exercises with South Korea, but their size and operating tempo can be adjusted, especially by suspending deployment of nuclear assets like flights of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers into Korean airspace.
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Iran: The administration has begun serious war planning and the Pentagon has begun building up serious forces in the Persian Gulf, including an aircraft carrier strike group, and B-52 bombers and F-15 fighters flying deterrence sorties.
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If the US air bases can be taken out, the US' technologically superior F-35 and F-33 stealth fighters, and its B-1 and B-52 heavy bombers would be low on options to rearm and refuel.
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That could include moving more US troops, special forces capabilities and assets such as B-52 bombers into the region; giving allies more anti-ballistic technology and increasing surveillance and reconnaissance to better understand North Korea's operational capabilities.
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Long term, the idea is for these planes to replace Air Force B-52 bombers, which have been flying for more than half a century -- and eventually the B-1 bombers, when they retire sometime in the 2040s.
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Also, ongoing overhaul and repair of some legacy planes such as the B-52 operated by the U.S. military brings added revenue since the company provides aircraft instruments and aircraft accessories to support and sustain critical weapon systems.
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Russia scrambled a fighter jet on Tuesday to intercept a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 strategic bomber it said was flying over the Baltic Sea near its border, in an incident that had echoes of the Cold War.
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Those would include aircraft such as B-2 and B-52 bombers that would operate out of the US Air Force base on Guam, and F-22 stealth fighters would be part of any first strike, experts say.
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Both the B-28503 and the B-22019 will have nuclear weapon options and will also share a capability that was a key consideration for keeping the B-52 in service: the Long Range Stand-Off cruise missile.
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Letter To the Editor: "In Sick Airmen, Echo of '66 Nuclear Crash" ("Hydrogen Bombs' Aftermath" series, front page, June 20) describes the aftermath of a 1966 Air Force B-52 bomber crash involving nuclear weapons near Palomares, Spain.
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"Current thinking is it would not go into a high-density threat area, and therefore the need for upgrading the electronic warfare system is not as demanding as some of the other demands to upgrade the B-52."
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"A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress flying a routine mission in support of multiple planned exercises in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian SU-27," according to a statement from Lt. Col.
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South Korea's Yonhap news agency said "extended deterrence" could include permanent deployment of U.S. "strategic assets" in South Korea, such as nuclear-capable B-52 and B-1B bombers, F-22 stealth fighter jets and nuclear-powered submarines.
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Each B-52 bombed an area half a kilometer wide and a kilometer long; each carried a payload of 80 or more 500-pound bombs, arriving in the silence of the jungle from an altitude of 33,000 feet.
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In a show of force and support for allies in the region, the US on Sunday sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber based in Guam on a flight over South Korea, accompanied by South Korean fighter jets.
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The United States also has conducted sea and air patrols near artificial islands that China has built in the Spratly islands chain farther south in the South China Sea, including by two B-52 strategic bombers in November.
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Westmoreland acknowledged that B-52 strikes would leave "a clear signature in Cambodian territory," meaning news of the operation would be hard to keep under wraps, but he was adamant that possible bad publicity was worth the risk.
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"We can confirm that the U.S. Air Force B-52 was operating in international airspace but we don't have any information to provide at this time regarding the behavior of Russian aircraft," Air Force spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said.
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Related: B-1 bomber pulled from ISIS fight The 185,000-pound B-52 is one of the oldest active aircraft in the U.S. Air Force, having first entered service in the 4903s during the height of the Cold War.
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"We can confirm that the U.S. Air Force B-52 was operating in international airspace but we don't have any information to provide at this time regarding the behaviour of Russian aircraft," Air Force spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder said.
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Washington (CNN)Two US B-52 bombers flew within the vicinity of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to a statement from US Pacific Air Forces, which oversees air operations in the region.
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"When we have ancient technology downstairs, it makes our life a little bit more difficult — especially with the weapon systems that require us to use a radar," said Lt. Rebecca Halla, a B-52 weapons system operator at Barksdale.
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When asked if the U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range bomber capable of deploying nuclear weapons, was leaving the exercises, chief Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said Thursday that the scope of the exercises has not changed.
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Coalition forces have used extensive airstrikes in Faryab and in neighboring Jowzjan Province, according to Afghan officials, including B-52 bombers, a hallmark of the early years of the American-led invasion, the district governor, Baz Mohammed Dawar, said.
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B-52 bombers from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and RAF Fairford have also conducted "simultaneous theater familiarization training in the Indo-Pacific and Europe" as bombers "flew north to an area east of the Kamchatka Peninsula," near Russia.
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Weighing 185,000 pounds, the B-52 first entered service in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War, originally designed to serve as long-range, high-altitude intercontinental nuclear bombers that could strike deep into the Soviet Union.
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Weighing 185,000 pounds, the B-52 first entered service in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War -- originally designed to serve as long-range, high-altitude intercontinental nuclear bombers that could strike deep into the Soviet Union.
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For example, B-13 Stratofortress pilots already tend to avoid low-altitude flights because of the additional stress on the venerable bomber&aposs airframe, according to Alan Williams, the B-52 deputy program element monitor at Global Strike Command.
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The Air Force plans to fly its Vietnam era B-52 bomber weill into the 2050s, and the Army&aposs Chinook is slated to fly for 100 years -- from 1960 to 2060 -- according to service modernization experts and program managers.
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You can tuck Lizzo's "Boys" between Le Tigre's "I'm So Excited" and The B-52's classic "Rock Lobster," to give guests a taste of something new and different while also playing the songs you know they'll be excited to hear.
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Beyond the deployment of the Lincoln, the United States also dispatched B-52 bombers to the Middle East in response and is also weighing the redeployment of Patriot missiles after pulling several out of the region last year, officials said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia scrambled a fighter jet on Tuesday to intercept a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 strategic bomber it said was flying over the Baltic Sea near its border, in an incident that had echoes of the Cold War.
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"The Russian SU-27 crew, having approached at a safe distance, identified the aircraft as an American B-52 strategic bomber and escorted it" until such time as it changed course and flew away from the border area, the ministry said.
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Pyotr Deinekin, a former Russian Air Force commander, was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying that he could not recall the last time a B-52 had flown over the Baltic Sea and that the incident raised troubling questions.
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The United States has sent an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to the Middle East in a show of force against what U.S. officials have said is a threat to U.S. troops and interests in the region.
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The North Dakota base has been under scrutiny for years, following a 2007 mishap in which a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles in Minot and flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
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Trump, now trying to isolate Iran, has reimposed sanctions on it and sent the aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Middle East in a move Washington said aimed to offset threats from Iran to American forces in the region.
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After January's purported bomb test, the United States flew a B-52 bomber from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam over Osan in a show of force, and the Air Force has made similar shows over the past several years.
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The U.S. military said on Tuesday that B-52 bombers would be part of additional forces being sent to the Middle East to counter what the Trump administration says are "clear indications" of threats from Iran to U.S. forces there.
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Six more F-16 fighter bombers have been deployed to Bagram air field north of the Afghan capital of Kabul, and additional massive B-52 bombers have been assigned to strike Afghanistan from bases in the Persian Gulf, it added.
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The U.S. military has sent forces, including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers, to the Middle East in a move that U.S. officials said was made to counter "clear indications" of threats from Iran to American forces in the region.
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Washington (CNN)The US, South Korea and Japan agreed this week to shift a planned flight of at least two nuclear-capable B-52 bombers so they would not fly over the Korean Peninsula, according to two US defense officials.
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The U.S. Air Force confirmed Wednesday that B-52 crews from both RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom and Anderson Air Force Base in Guam conducted training missions in an area east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.
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"We have to have stealthy platforms that can penetrate those systems, but if you're looking at something larger like a B-52 or transport aircraft bringing in troops ... they would need extra protection beyond the traditional kind of countermeasures," said Williams.
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A training exercise involving U.S. B-52 bombers flying alongside South Korean warplanes was canceled following threats that Pyongyang would withdraw from a highly anticipated summit with President Donald Trump next month, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials.
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B-52 bombers from the US Air Forces' Expeditionary 69th Bomb Squadron also dropped ordnance during the exercise, and the Republic of Singapore multirole stealth frigates RSS Formidable and RSS Intrepid fired surface-to-surface Harpoon missiles at the Ford.
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Roper told reporters in Washington, DC, that the service has a vision for its current bomber fleet, which constitutes turning the bomber force — the B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer or B-2 Spirit — into "something else" in the future.
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Additionally, during the Fire Support Coordination Exercise on the ground, they were able to perform Pacific Air Forces' first off-board laser spot track between the US Army's RQ-7 Shadow Unmanned Aerial System and the B-52's targeting pod.
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The US Air Force has deployed six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to GuamJapanese national broadcaster NHK apologized for sending an alert that incorrectly stated North Korea had launched a ballistic missile, just days after Hawaii had a similar scare.
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But some House Republicans supported the administration's handling of the confrontation, praising the White House's decision to accelerate the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln's sailing to the gulf region, and deploy B-52 bombers to a major air base in Qatar.
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The enthusiasm has spread to military contractors, especially after the Pentagon awarded the largest one, Lockheed Martin, more than $1.4 billion in 2018 to build missile prototypes that can be launched by Air Force fighter jets and B-52 bombers.
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Washington has sent more military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what U.S. officials call Iranian threats to U.S. troops and interests in the region.
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The Trump administration responded to the perceived threats, bolstered by its own intelligence, by moving an American carrier strike group, B-52 bombers and a Patriot missile-defense battery to the Persian Gulf and updating the Pentagon's war plans against Iran.
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One of the questions that lawmakers asked was why the Air Force was planning on moving away from the much newer designs of the B-1 and B-2 bombers and keeping such an old airframe as the B-52.
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U.S. Air Force veterans who cleared debris from a B-52 bomber that exploded during an accident in 1966 over Spain, sending four hydrogen bombs hurtling to earth, have won the right to sue collectively against the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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One of Arthur's first clients was the US Air Force, which awarded the company a 6-month prototyping contract at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, working on software that predicts supply chain problems affecting engines used on B-52 bombers.
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He spent just about his whole career as an intelligence officer—providing intelligence to B-52 pilots in Vietnam, serving as chief of intelligence for U.S. forces in Europe during the Bosnian war, and then running the Air Intelligence Agency.
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Annual joint military exercises, set for March between South Korea and the United States, are expected to involve an American aircraft carrier, advanced stealth fighters, B-52 and B-1B bombers and a nuclear submarine, according to South Korean news reports.
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But South Korean leaders didn't want to ruin the prospects of a Trump-Kim summit by taking part in the air exercise, especially because it involved the B-52 bombers, and asked the US if South Korean could bow out.
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Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota will continue to host the B-52 Stratofortress, the workhorse bomber that was first introduced in 1952 and is expected to remain in service until the 2050s.
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Paul Goossen was relieved of his position leading a B-52 Stratofortress squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, "because penis drawings were discovered on a moving map software" used within the nuclear-capable combat communication tech, a source told Military.com.
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Iran's announcement is expected as the US moves a carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Strait of Hormuz after the Pentagon said "specific and credible" intelligence suggested Iranian forces were targeting US troops in Syria, Iraq and at sea.
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Washington has sent additional military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles in a show of force against what U.S. officials have said is a threat to its troops and interests in the region.
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The U.S. military said this week that a number of B-52 bombers would be part of additional forces being sent to the Middle East to counter what the Trump administration calls "clear indications" of threats from Iran to U.S. forces there.
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In a show of force and support for allies in the region following North Korea's nuclear test, its fourth since 2006, the United States on Sunday sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber based in Guam on a flight over South Korea.
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The long-range B-1s, from the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and the B-52, from the Air Force Reserve Command's 307th Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, landed at Royal Air Force Fairford in Gloucestershire.
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Then, when Kim bluffed and threatened to walk away from the summit that he so desperately wants, Trump made an additional concession and, according to CNN, shifted a planned flight of B-52 bombers so as not to fly over the Korean Peninsula.
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Washington has sent additional military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what U.S. officials have said are Iranian threats to its troops and interests in the region.
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In one sign of ongoing cooperation, the U.S. Air Force flew B-52 bombers from the U.S. mainland to train with British and Norwegian allies for almost a month in October at a time when China and Russia continue to modernise their militaries.
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James said a B-52 bomber participating in an air show in Chile while she was there had also conducted some of its nuclear training procedures while en route and had practiced aerial intercept missions with Colombian forces concerned about drug trafficking.
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The Boeing-built B-52 — colloquially known as the Big Ugly Fat Fellow, or BUFF — is one of the Air Force's oldest airframes, but that isn't stopping the service from constantly deploying its fleet, most recently in September to RAF Fairford in England.
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The Air Force has been rotating bombers — the B-2 stealth bomber as well as the B-1 and B-52 — through Guam since in 2004 to compensate for U.S. forces sent from the Asia-Pacific region to fight in the Middle East.
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The advent of the Conventional Rotary Launcher, a bomb bay weapons platform made available to the B-52 fleet in 2017, provides an alternative to the cluster bomb rack system and may once again allow LGB's to be dropped from inside the jet.
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The service plans to move away from the relatively new B-1 and B-2 bombers, keeping the B-52, which is older than the pilots who fly it, and acquiring the B-21, the maiden flight of which is slated for October.
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The bombers of the future have already been decided: They are the B-21 Raider, which is currently under development, and the venerable B-52 Stratofortress, a holdover from the Cold War, the airframes of which are older than the pilots flying them.
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While Jan Mayen airfield may be able to handle cargo and mobility aircraft like the C-130J, strategic bombers like the B-2 or the B-52, which also flew into the Arctic in late 2019, may not be able to operate there.
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The U.S. military said on Tuesday that a number of B-52 bombers would be part of additional forces being sent to the Middle East to counter what the Trump administration says are "clear indications" of threats from Iran to U.S. forces there.
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The United States has sent further military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what U.S. officials say are Iranian threats to its troops and interests in the region.
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For the first time since 2006, massive B-52 bombers operating out of Qatar flew at least two missions in Afghanistan over the summer when they were used to bomb Islamic State targets in preparation for a ground assault by Afghan troops in Nangarhar.
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The missile is "needed to replace the aging air launched cruise missile, which has far exceeded its originally planned service life ... and is required to support our B-52 bomber fleet," Admiral Cecil Haney, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, told lawmakers earlier this year.
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Trump wants to force Tehran to agree to a broader arms control accord and has sent an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Gulf in a show of force against what U.S. officials have said are threats to U.S. troops in the region.
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National security adviser John Bolton cited the intelligence to justify the accelerated deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to the region, as well as the deployment of B-52 bombers and a Patriot missile battery that is still in the process of being sent.
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The US Air Force deployed B-52 bombers to Qatar on Saturday to join the fight against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, the first time they have been based in the Middle East since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force deployed B-52 bombers to Qatar on Saturday to join the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the first time they have been based in the Middle East since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
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The new active electronically scanned array radar, which will be based on Raytheon's APG-79 and APG-82, will increase the range at which the B-52 can detect targets, and it'll increase the number of targets the bomber can locate, according to Raytheon.
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A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress leads a formation of aircraft including two Polish air force F-16 Fighting Falcons, four US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, two German Eurofighter Typhoons, and four Swedish Gripens over the Baltic Sea, June 9, 2016.
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Greenland's government said radiation risks at Camp Century, from coolants for a nuclear generator used to produce power, seemed low compared to those from debris left by the far better documented crash in 1968 of a B-52 bomber carrying hydrogen bombs off north Greenland.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, which consists of the carrier and its powerful carrier air wing, as well as one cruiser and four destroyers, moved into the region earlier this month along with a number of B-52 Stratofortress heavy long-range bombers.
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John W. Nicholson Jr., the commander of the United States operations in Afghanistan, said that B-52 bombers and F-603 warplanes took part in the strikes, the first such attacks under new authorities granted by President Trump to officials conducting the war in Afghanistan.
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"The B-52 remains an instrument of national security and a universally recognized symbol of American airpower, able to deliver the widest variety of stand-off and direct-attack nuclear and conventional weapons for the Nation," Global Strike Command told Insider in a statement Thursday.
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The command further explained that "as the nature of modern warfare has changed, so have our tactics and weapons," adding that "as a natural progression in the development of the airframe, B-52 crews do not currently train to employ the B83 and B61."
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John Hyten, current Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former head of US Strategic Command, said in 2017 that without LRSO, "you don&apost have the B-52 as a viable platform" — a statement reflecting the need for stand-off capabilities.
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Indeed, a 2016 version of the exercise involved the participation of three B-52 nuclear bombers from the US Strategic Air Command, indicating that the American military is keenly aware of the escalatory risks of any large-scale US-Russian encounter in the Arctic.
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The day before Wang spoke, China had criticized the US for flying B-52 bombers in the vicinity of the South China Sea, calling it "provocative" and demanding that the US take steps to improve military relations amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - No military ship or aircraft can scare China away from its resolve to protect its territory, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday after two U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers were reported to have flown near disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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Saudi minister rips White House on Syria, talks 2016 campaign During that period, the Air Force lost a B-52 Stratofortress after a crash in Guam in May, a C-130J transport plane after an October accident in Afghanistan and a RC-603 crashed in April 2015.
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It also comes days after US officials said the Pentagon's decision to move an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers into the region was a result of intelligence that showed that Iran is likely moving short-range ballistic missiles aboard boats in the Persian Gulf.
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SEOUL, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The United States and its ally South Korea are in talks towards sending further strategic U.S. assets to the Korean peninsula, a day after a U.S. B-52 bomber flew over South Korea in response to North Korea's nuclear test last week.
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Harrigian said the U.S. forces on the ground called in coalition strikes for more than three hours, involving not just F-15E fighter jets but MQ-9 drones, B-52 bombers, AC-130 gunships and AH-64 Apache helicopters to fire munitions and conduct strafing runs.
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Annual military drills between Washington and Seoul have long been a major source of contention between the Koreas, but the current exercises, called "Max Thunder," are particularly sensitive from Pyongyang&aposs perspective because they reportedly involve nuclear capable B-52 bombers and F-22 stealth fighters.
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Women do buy cupcakes in proportionately greater numbers than men though; even the supposedly male cupcakes baked by the Manhattan Butch Bakery whose lines have names like the "Driller" and the "B-52," and which feature ingredients like beer-infused buttercream, crumbled bacon, and crushed pretzels.
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Aircraft from the modern C-17 Globemaster III and the KC-46 Pegasus — the new kid on the block — to the venerable C-130 Hercules, B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker and others play a massive role in the service's global operations, all with different purposes.
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More recently, the administration made a quick succession of steps that are clearly escalatory: pulling numbers of U.S. State Department personnel from Iraq; deploying an aircraft carrier task force and B-52 bombers to the Gulf; and planning to send 120,000 U.S. troops to the region.
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""The original PLZT goggles, military designation EEU-2/P, were developed for nuclear bombers such as the B-52 and B-23 in the Strategic Air Command (SAC), where the crewmembers would hopefully be just outside the blast, radiation, and/or heat damage radii of the weapon.
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To stem the flow of war material, from 1964 to 1973, American bombers poured 4 billion pounds of ordnance on Laos, with the majority landing on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, where a free-fire zone permitted indiscriminate bombing by America's newest weapon: the B-52 bomber.
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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 an operational test performed by the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron here, Aug.
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ABOARD A B-52, over Eastern Afghanistan — Flying at more than 20,000 feet, the hulking long-range bomber circled ominously above a militant-infested swath of Afghan territory near the rugged border with Pakistan, hunting for Taliban or Islamic State fighters who could threaten friendly troops nearby.
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In this case, the B-52 was acting as an airborne cavalry, ready to rush to the aid of friendly forces with a formidable arsenal that included about two dozen 2,000-pound and 500-pound laser-guided bombs — more than 10 tons of destruction in all.
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He just got back from a deployment with his B-52 bomber squadron, and when he did, fellow airmen in his squadron, whom he counts among his best friends, threw a shower for him and his wife, Aimee, to celebrate their first child, born in February.
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U.S. President Donald Trump wants to force Tehran to agree a broader arms control accord and has sent an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Gulf in a show of force against what U.S. officials have said are threats to U.S. troops in the region.
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A bomber task force of B-52 Stratofortresses, airmen and support equipment from the 203nd Bomb Wing based out of Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrived at RAF Fairford late last week and has been participating in various training missions across Europe, according to the service.
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But also on the table are other revived nuclear weapons, all under the control of the Energy Department, as well as the really big-ticket military items: a stealthy nuclear bomber to replace the B-52 and B-1 bombers, and a fleet of new, silent submarines.
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When animosities sharply rose in the spring of 2013 following North Korea's third nuclear test, the U.S. took the unusual step of sending its most powerful warplanes — B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 stealth fighters and B-52 bombers — to drills with South Korea in a show of force.
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China has also indirectly criticized South Korean and American responses to the test: Seoul's resumption of propaganda broadcasts at the inter-Korean border and a flyover near North Korea by an American nuclear-capable B-52 long-range bomber, which the Americans described as a show of strength.
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The Minot base, home to about 4,800 active-duty military personnel, is one of the nation&aposs two B-52 bomber bases and the command center for about 150 Minuteman III missiles, housed underground in hardened silos across 8,500 square miles of northwest and north-central North Dakota.
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Of his five and a half years in captivity, one event that has remained forever etched in McCain's mind, he says, occurred in December 1972 when U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers roared over Hanoi and other parts of the country, and began dropping over 20,000 tons of explosives.
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These recent intercepts occurred amid rising tensions between Russia and members of NATO -- particularly the US. Earlier this month, the US Air Force deployed long-range B-52 bombers and 800 airmen to the United Kingdom in support of joint exercises with NATO allies and partners across Europe.
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There are many sections and jobs throughout the 96th AMU, and all of them have an important role to play in the mission, from the crew chiefs who take care of the overall state of the jet to the weapons airmen who load munitions onto the B-52.
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On Thursday, CNN reported that US intelligence indicates no sign of a "decrease in Iran's posture" or the intentions that prompted the US to move the Navy strike group and B-52 bombers to the region, according to a US official with direct knowledge of the latest intelligence.
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Related: Yes, North Korea Probably Tested an H-Bomb — Just Not the Kind You're Thinking Of The United States deployed a massive B-52 bomber plane on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea on Sunday, a show of force following North Korea's nuclear test last week.
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Tensions have soared between Iran and the United States since Washington sent more military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what U.S. officials say are Iranian threats to its troops and interests in the region.
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All eight bases being inventoried are part of the Air Force's Global Strike Command which is responsible for nuclear tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles; B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers, air-launched cruises missiles and gravity bombs as well as the Air Force nuclear command, control, and communications system.
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For the Emiratis, recognized as leaders of the ATQ, the way forward is to punish Doha for its support of Hamas by the U.S. shifting its fleets of B-52 bombers, fighters, aerial tankers and reconnaissance aircraft from al-Udeid to the UAE's al-Dhafra air base outside Abu Dhabi.
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Photos posted by the Royal Air Force show the "Tiffies" escorting one of the four B-52 assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base, Lousiana, during the integration and interoperability training the Stratofortress bombers are conducting with several European allies and partners in Europe.
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US Air Force F-15s and F-35s, along with B-52 bombers, are now flying visible air patrols over the Persian Gulf, according to a US official, who said that the flights were designed to demonstrate to both Iran and US allies that US forces are in a deterrence mode.
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Washington (CNN)Intelligence showing that Iran is likely moving short-range ballistic missiles aboard boats in the Persian Gulf was one of the critical reasons the US decided to move an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers into the region, according to several US officials with direct knowledge of the situation.
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During the two separate days, two B-52 bombers coordinated with members of the 25th Air Support Operations Squadron and US Army Pacific 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team joint terminal attack controllers, also known as JTACs, to deliver a mixed payload of unguided, precision-guided and laser-guided weapons.
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Washington (CNN)The US Air Force recently deployed six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Europe for "theater integration and flying training" exercises with regional allies and NATO partners -- a move viewed as sending a strong message to Russia, which is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its military annexation of Crimea.
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As part of the global response, the US sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber to saunter through the neighborhood, signaling that, indeed, two can play at that game, and North Korea better have a long, hard think about whether it wants to get into a nuclear slap fight with the United States.
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Related: US Defense Secretary Ash Carter Makes $600 Billion Bet on New Defense Budget The arsenal plane is a large and old aircraft like a B-52 or B-1B bomber packed to the gills with communications gear and long-range missiles — from long-range air-to-air missiles to cruise missiles for ground targets.
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"I wanted to take the exhibit off-the-walls and make it more personal for visitors to the gallery — bring these otherworldly weapons a bit closer to home as most people have never been inside a B-52, or seen a nuclear warhead nose cone, or been in an underground missile bunker," Buehler said.
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A pair of B-52 Stratofortress bombers flew a training mission over the South China Sea this week, the U.S. military said Friday The bombers took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and then flew to the South China Sea area for training Tuesday, according to a statement from Pacific Air Forces.
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A July report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute notes that a new intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to replace the Minuteman III in 2028, a next-generation ballistic submarine is expected to supplant the Ohio class in 2031 and the successor to B-52 bombers will become available in the 2030s and 2040s.
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While few question the need for a major update to the nation's nuclear infrastructure — there are B-52 bombers now being maintained or flown by the grandchildren of their original crew members — the United States is facing a bill so large that the Trump administration has yet to fully figure it into its budget projections.
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Mattis expressed concern about the Air Force's ground-based Minuteman III, one leg of the nation's nuclear triad (strategic bombers, submarine-launched missiles, and land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs.) There's already funding for development of a new stealth bomber manufactured by Northrop Grumman that modernizes the current B-1, B-2 and B-52 force.
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Last week, the Pentagon positioned an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers in the region, and the White House has reportedly updated war plans to include the deployment of 120,000 US troops to the Middle East in the event that Iran strikes American forces in the region or speeds up its development of nuclear weapons.
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Some observers, however, suggested Trump wasn't reacting to the rocket attack but to a Fox News segment on the threat posed by Iran: Officials within the Trump administration have cited intelligence about a heightened threat from Iran and its proxies in the region for withdrawing embassy staff and for sending warships and B-52 bombers to the region.
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In addition to working with Maroon 5 — who, under Jordan's guidance, became one of music's most successful acts, selling 20 million albums worldwide and winning three Grammy awards — CAM also shepherded the career of Sara Bareilles and worked with a roster of diverse clients that include Miguel, Elle King, Big Boi, Rick Springfield, The B-52's, and Chromeo.
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"This training exercise with the B-52 is the latest in a series of air integration training opportunities that have seen RAF and USAF aircraft operating together training to fly missions in a hostile air environment and marks a shift away from the counter-insurgency operations that have been conducted in recent years" says the official release.
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But ever since B-1Bs returned to the Middle East in April 2018 for the first time in nearly two-and-a-half years to take over strike missions from the B-52 Stratofortress, the airframe has experienced two fleet-wide groundings, one in June 2018 and the other in March 2019, due to ejection seat issues.
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Although quite short, the clip shows several interesting details: the nuclear weapons panel, the front panel and the nav station and, above all, it provides a glimpse at the rare Polarized Lead Zirconium Titanate (PLZT, pronounced "plizzit") used by the B-52 pilots to protect their eyes from injuries caused by the initial thermal flash from a nuclear blast.
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Following North Korea's stark objection to joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises earlier this week, CNN is reporting that the U.S., South Korea and Japan all agreed to change a scheduled flight of "at least two nuclear-capable B-52 bombers so they would not fly over the Korean Peninsula," citing to two U.S. defense officials.
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The Navy announced March 20 that carriers Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman and their respective escorts were operating with a B-52 bomber in the Arabian Sea to demonstrate "combined joint capability and interoperability to plan and conduct multi-task force operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility," a Navy release said.
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In private meetings, military officials have warned the White House that its maximum-pressure campaign against Iran is motivating the kinds of threats to United States troops and American interests in the Middle East that led to an announcement on Sunday that the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers were heading to the gulf.
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Chinese agents have gone after the United States' most significant weapons, such as the F-35 Lightning, the Aegis Combat System and the Patriot missile system; illegally exported unmanned underwater vehicles and thermal-imaging cameras; and stolen documents related to the B-52 bomber, the Delta IV rocket, the F-15 fighter and even the Space Shuttle.
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Pompeo issued his statement as a US official with direct knowledge of the situation told CNN that the latest intelligence indicates there's no sign of a "decrease in Iran's posture" or the signals that prompted the US to move a Navy strike group and B-52 bombers to the region, according to a US official with direct knowledge of the latest intelligence.
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Latest developments Last week, the Pentagon positioned an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers in the region, and the White House has updated war plans to include the deployment of more than 100,000 US troops to the Middle East in the event that Iran strikes American forces in the region or speeds up its development of nuclear weapons.
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The fear that President Donald Trump is returning the world to the nightmare years of the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation was an ever-looming threat, got more intense over the weekend with the news that the United States Air Force is preparing to put B-52 bombers on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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Using F-22 attack planes and B-52 bombers, the military says it dropped bombs on labs where the insurgents turn poppies into heroin, as well as "storage facilities where they keep their final product, where they stockpile their money and their command and control," Nicholson said in a news conference with the Afghan army chief of staff in Kabul.
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In addition to working with Maroon 5 — who, under Feldstein's guidance, became one of music's most successful acts, selling 20 million albums worldwide and winning three Grammy awards — CAM also shepherded the career of Sara Bareilles and worked with a roster of diverse clients that include Miguel, Elle King, Big Boi, Rick Springfield, The B-52's, Chromeo and Robin Thicke.
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As hostilities in the region spiked recently, culminating in the US strike last week against Soleimani, the US deployed about 23,500 paratroopers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait, put about 200 troops from the 173rd Airborne Brigade on notice to deploy and sent six B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia.
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Their threats to walk away from the summit once they assessed you were committed to going may be designed to get concessions from you -- reports that the US, South Korea and Japan are shifting planned flights of B-52 bombers so they would not fly over the Korean Peninsula may be viewed as such a concession, particularly as the Pentagon won't publicly deny a connection.
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For instance, the Air Force test-launched its ARRW from a B-52 bomber as part of its Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon (HCSW) this June; the Navy tested an HGV in 2017 to further its Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) initiative; and the Army tested its own version of such a weapon in 2011 and 2014 to move its Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) program forward.
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