B-52 bomber can now lay an entire ocean minefield from 40 miles away… but that’s just the beginning
by Alex Hollings · 16 hours ago · Military
Over the past year, the United States has begun to shift operational strategies away from ongoing counter-terror operations and toward a resurgence of near-peer level threats presented by China’s rapidly expanding military and Russia’s aggressive use of their own limited military capabilities. Over nearly two straight decades of the War on Terror, the United States has, as U.S. Air Force Colonel Michael Pietrucha recently put it, taken its “eye off the ball†when it comes to developing strategies and technologies suited to countering threats posed by national level militaries. America has a deep stable to pull from when it comes to weapons technologies, allowing for some creative new solutions to long standing warfare problems, most recently involving the B-52 bomber.
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