The enhanced B-52 platform is expected to play a critical role in the Air Force’s bomber strategy for years to come.

It would be a tribute to Boeing engineers’ advance planning that the BUFF ... planned the B-52’s demise again in the mid- 1950s, after Boeing had built about 450 of the bombers.

Originally developed as a nuclear bomber ... the B-52 is still regularly flown and kept in prime combat readiness. Part of the reason for its long service is that the Buff, or “Big Ugly Fat ...

Because bombers are most frequently flown at high altitudes (the B-52 can cruise at 50,000 feet), they rarely show up in the video footage aired on television news programs. Such aircraft are more ...

is host to another strategic U.S. bomber, the B-1 Lancer). So naturally it was a bit of an attention-getter when a B-52 was recently spotted in the skies over Texas—and apparently toting ...