A popular gaming engine is helping Boeing to refit 60-year-old B-52 bombers for another three decades of service. To see how new Rolls-Royce F-130 engines would work on the U.S. Air Force’s ...

T he United States Air Force has 85 active Boeing B-52H Stratofortresses still in the inventory of the 744 that were built.

The B-52H is the service’s primary strategic nuclear and conventional weapons platform. When it comes to legendary aircraft, ...

The US Air Force has awarded Boeing a potentially $11.9 billion contract to support weapon system modernisation of its B-52 bomber fleet. "This contract will include several delivery orders over ...

For the past two years, Air Force Global Strike Command has worked with engine manufacturers and financial institutions to put together a business case assessment for replacing the Boeing B-52 ...

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., Jan ... Added Scot Oathout, the Boeing's B-52 program director: "When you combine that ability with the B-52's unlimited range with air refueling, you have an ...

While the first B-52 Stratofortress never saw combat, its successors would go on to cement their place in Air Force history.

In seven years or so, if everything goes according to plan, the U.S. Air Force should get what looks like a new bomber. A Boeing B-52 with new engines, new radios, new jammers, a new radar and ...

Gen. Erik Quigley, the Air Force’s program executive officer for bombers. The service taps a tough negotiator for Boeing programs Lawmakers seek an all-nuclear-capable B-52 fleet The service ...

[Avionics Today 10-02-2015] The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a contract to equip the B-52 bomber with Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT), which aims to enhance the aircraft’s ...

With the landing at a Boeing Co., facility in San Antonio, of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber assigned to the 307th Bomb Wing from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, the Air Force’s B-52 Radar ...

The United States Air Force has operated the venerable Boeing B-52 Stratofortress for seven decades, and it could see a full century of service before it is finally retired – meaning the final ...