@American Girl

We have rules here about excerpting articles.  Why do you feel the rules here somehow don't apply to you?  It's not difficult.

Sure would have been nice if the OP article actually described the improvements and improved capabilities of the "J" version. The B-52 has not at all been "stagnant" since it came into service in the 1950s, nor has the munitions it carries. I'm sure the same is true of the Russians' B-52-contemporary Tu-95 "Bear". One interesting longevity question is how many upgradeable "G" and "H" B-52s remain at Davis-Monthan AFB (and if there is a "K" upgrade, will "G"s still be economically upgradeable). At some point that number will dwindle to zero and attrition will gradually reduce the B-52 fleet.

My nephew is a manager for Boeing in SC.

 Boeing is under so much stock holder pressure to make ever increasing profits and pay dividends they are cutting corners and it is coming back to bite them.

This trend is what is happening  to most corporation across the country. Ceo have a small base pay but their real pay is more and more based upon payment in stocks and bonuses and they are pushing to employees, lower level management and their subcontractors and vendors to the extreme to maximize profits.

Then the subcontractors and vendors are forced to do the same thing. It is a vicious cycle. Not just ceo's.  Boards of these companies are under so much pressure for profits  and if it does not happen they will get replaced.

They don't need to train for street fighting, they'll just send in drones to do the dirty work.

Special Operations: Legacy of the Master Street Fighter
 
May 6, 2024: Continued fighting in Ukraine and Middle East, plus the worldwide persistence of Islamic terrorism and urban violence, has revived interest in William Fairbairn, the developer of close combat methods used by police and the military, especially special operations or commando type troops.

Fairbairn died in 1960, having developed close combat fighting methods and taught them to soldiers and police personnel starting in the 1920s, continuing through World War II and for over a decade after the war. Fairbairn specialized in what he called gutter fighting, a ruthless, no holds barred form of combat referred to as The Fairbairn Method, which were developed in Shanghai, China, during the 1930’s when Fairbairn was an officer of its Chinese police force.


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Fairbairn also developed various forms of hand-to-hand combat as well as innovations like the Kill House and bullet-proof transparent shields for police, the commando knife, and pop-up targets. Fairbairn trained allied commandos during World War II and these special operations were so feared by the Germans that Hitler ordered that any who were captured were to be immediately executed. The Germans believed, with some justification, that these commandos could be dangerous even when handcuffed or otherwise restrained. Authors of espionage and special operations publications found, and still find Fairbairn’s books excellent sources of material and details of close combat.

 https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsf/articles/202405060656.aspx