The Big Ugly Fat Fella flies into the future: Seventy years after the first B-52, the world's most b

[rangerrebew]

The Big Ugly Fat Fella flies into the future: Seventy years after the first B-52, the world's most brutal bomber is being refitted to clock up a century in service

By Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:01 EST, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 21:01 EST, 26 January 2021
 

Flying in formation and dropping their mighty payloads together, the bombs from a B-52 attack fall so thickly that they look from a distance like a rain shower.

With some 70,000 pounds of ordnance — up to 108 bombs in each plane — tumbling out of each B-52’s huge belly and from under its 185 ft wings, a carpet-bombing run by a Boeing Stratofortress leaves little in its wake.

It pulverised cities in Vietnam in the 1960s, obliterated Iraq’s defences before Operation Desert Storm three decades later and scared the wits out of generations of Soviet leaders.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9190465/Seventy-years-B-52-worlds-brutal-bomber-awesome-new-role.html

[rangerrebew]

The Air Force must have figured out how to  reduce it's "carbon footprint" otherwise it would be gone.  In the modern military under Biden, we must consider global warming before all else.

[PeteS in CA]

The current upgrade has zero to do with Enviro-Morons, who'd like to scrap every active and mothballed plane. The engine is the military version of the P & W JT3C/D, the engine used on the late 50s vintage Boeing 707. Wear-out is happening and repair parts are probably becoming an expensive PITA.

The BUFF may "live" longer than I do.

[mikezpen]

" In the modern military under Biden, we must consider global warming before all else."

Well, maybe. But don't forget the integration of women into elite combat units in accordance w/their proportion of the population-which means removal of m misogynistic obstacles such as fitness requirements. AND homosexuals into the upper echelons of the military in order to guarantee fairness to sexual minorities.Also to make white soldiers accept that they are inherently racist and that they need education on white privilege and its removal.

And of course separate bath and locker facilities for all transgendered.

And limitations on large-capacity magazines.

You know-the really important stuff.

[rangerrebew]

Well, maybe. But don't forget the integration of women into elite combat units in accordance w/their proportion of the population-which means removal of m misogynistic obstacles such as fitness requirements. 
 

This is a good thing.  Who wants all that "toxic masculinity" in the military?