Starting in the late 2020s, the Air Force’s fleet of B-52 bombers will transform with new engines, a new radar, updated communications and navigation equipment and more. What was the B-52H will become the re-designated, upgraded B-52J. At one of only two operational B-52 bases ...
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The U.S. Air Force is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance with a huge display of airpower at the 2023 Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition this week. Most notably, a B-52H Stratofortress is slated to land on the Korean Peninsula for ...
WORLD: USAF Fighter Mix Changing at Kadena; $9 Billion in F-22 Updates; CCAs Arrive Before NGAD; Re-engined B-52 becomes B-52J; T-7 Delayed til 2025; A-10s, E-3s to the Boneyard.
The Air Force has settled on B-52J as the new designation of the 61-year-old Stratofortress once it's equipped with new Rolls Royce F130 engines. B-52s with new engines and radars are expected to be operational before the end of the decade.
The Air Force's AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile is outrunning its test plan and evaluation tools, and the Air Force needs to get a test plan approved by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to assure the weapon delivers what's needed, the DOT&E said.
What the B-52 will look like after engine upgrade; B-21 roll out set for Dec. 2.
A new image from Boeing shows how the B-52H will look after a series of modifications that the Air Force has said are significant enough to warrant re-designating the aircraft as the B-52J or K. The image was rendered from a digital prototyping model and ...
A new Boeing image shows what the B-52 cockpit will look like after upcoming radar, engine and other modifications have been performed. The image shows a far more streamlined and simpler presentation, dominated by new multifunction displays, although the old "steam gauges" have not been ...
The B-52H will be redesignated the B-52J or possibly B-52K when it gets a new radar and new engines, but the Air Force hasn’t yet decided what will constitute the new B-52 variant, according to Col. Louis Ruscetta, senior materiel leader for the program. The ...
The cost of the B-52 re-engining program has increased 50 percent because of integration issues, according to revelations in a House Armed Services panel hearing. The B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program has been conducted as a middle-tier acquisition program to get underway rapidly and develop ...
Preparing for conflict in the Pacific will require more than learning to fly fighters out of austere locations—it will also call for small bomber crews to go on quick consecutive missions to unfamiliar places.
Collins Aerospace, part of Raytheon Technologies, will upgrade the B-52 bomber’s power generation system, the company said. The improvements are meant to boost the B-52’s range while reducing its carbon footprint.
