The cost of keeping the B-52s in the air is roughly 10 times higher than their original construction cost during the 1950s and early 1960s. The United States Air Force Life Cycle Management Center ...

The U.S. Air Force is looking into an incident in which a passenger jet over North Dakota had to perform an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid a B-52 Stratofortress on Friday. (William Lewis/Air Force) ...

The B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber was designed in the 1940s, and, while in the military aviation industry it is not unheard of for old platforms to still be operational for decades, this thing ...

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A B-52H Stratofortress undergoing programmed depot maintenance is towed into a hangar at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, on July 28, 2025. (Landsberger/U.S. Air Force) The U.S. Air Force launched an ...

Raytheon received a potential $603 million IDIQ contract for B-52 radar production and sustainment Boeing secured a $162.97 million delivery order for bomb rack modernization system kits The Air Force ...

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on January 24, 1961, 18-year-old Billy Reeves came home from his late shift, kicked off his boots, and looked up just in time to see a B-52 falling out of the sky. Reeves lived ...

A new Government Accountability Office report found “performance challenges” in the program to keep the aging bomber in service through 2050. By Nicholas Slayton ...

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Cost overruns and schedule delays have put the program to replace the B-52 Stratofortress’ engines some $3 billion over budget, a government watchdog said July 31. The Air Force’s “Commercial Engine ...