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Title: U.S. Air Force might take one or two B-52 bombers returned to service from boneyard
Post by: Elderberry on July 28, 2019, 12:31:47 pm

Defence Blog 7/27/2019

The U.S. Air Force officials do not exclude that several previously-retired B-52 bombers might still return to service from airplane boneyard.

In an op-ed forThe Air Force Magazine, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said the Air Force “isn’t going to get any new B-52s,” Air Force Global Strike Command might still take “one or two more out of the boneyard.”

He noted that Air Force Global Strike Command boss Gen. Timothy Ray has “already brought one B-52 out of the boneyard.”

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Title: Re: U.S. Air Force might take one or two B-52 bombers returned to service from boneyard
Post by: PeteS in CA on July 28, 2019, 02:36:28 pm

I think the last B-52s were built in the mid-1960s. So in that sense new ones won't be built. But operational casualties happen, making it all but certain one or more will be brought out of retirement, refurbished, and modernized to current configuration. I assume the Russians have their own corresponding Bear Cave with retired aircraft that can be brought back into service.