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B-52J Modernization: Updating a Cold War Giant
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B-52J Modernization: Updating a Cold War Giant
Story by Norah Kitty•
 
So why is the Air Force spending millions on a bomber that flew in the 1950s? The reason is its unrivaled versatility, track record, and ability to keep pace with the times. But turning the B-52 into a contemporary aircraft hasn't come without challenges, and controversy remains over whether it's the right decision in an era of stealth fighters and hypersonic missiles.

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address