In the cold war time, U.S. planned to use the world’s first stealth F-117 Nighthawk jet for nuclear attacks against the Soviet Union. Entering service in the U.S. Air Force in late 1983, the F-117 Nighthawk was the world’s first jet aircraft built around a stealth design. It was designed …
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Screenshots of the B-52 intercepting by the Russian Su-27s on Jun. 15, 2020. (Image credit: Russian MOD). Russian Navy Su-27 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, TASS news agency reported Monday citing Russia’s Defense Ministry. The scramble involved Russian …
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The Video in the post brings you inside the cockpit of a B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber flying a nuclear alert training sortie. The Video provides a quite rare and interesting view of an aircrew from the 96th Bomb Squadron (based on the shoulder patch worn by one of the pilots) …
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On May 13, 2019, for the second time in U.S. Air Force history, the service has brought a B-52H Stratofortress bomber out of storage Boneyard and delivered it to an operational unit The 307th Bomb Wing (BW) brought a previously decommissioned B-52 Stratofortress to Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana. …
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