Barksdale B-52 Brandishes Its Modern Arsenal In New Loadout Photos
Stratofortress weapons options have changed a lot over the years and are set to morph even more drastically in the decades to come.
By Thomas Newdick July 30, 2021
The War Zone
A B-52H bomber posed in front of an array of ordnance that it can carry.
The U.S. Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress bomber has recently posed for photos behind an impressive display of its still-expanding weapons and stores options. Although it first took to the air almost 70 years ago, the adaptable “BUFF” still keeps pace with developments in precision-guided ordnance and it also carries some important weapons that are unique to it in the Air Force inventory.
The photos, two of which were released through the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) earlier today, show, in an unmistakable head-on pose, a B-52H of the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. In the background of one of the shots is another B-52, this one from Barksdale’s 307th Bomb Wing, part of Air Force Reserve Command.
U.S. Air Force
A pair of B-52Hs, together with a variety of their available nuclear and precision-guided ordnance, at Barksdale Air Force Base.
What’s immediately striking, and in contrast to Russia’s trio of strategic bombers, is the diverse combination of strategic nuclear and tactical conventional weapons available for the B-52H, and the fact that every item seen in these new pictures incorporates precision guidance of some kind.
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