New life for the B-52

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When I was with the 801st during Desert Storm, our -52 strikes were of three birds, each carrying 51 750-lb bombs; over 38,000 lbs of bombs apiece, albeit all dumb. However, the nav and targeting systems were very accurate.

I remember one time we had a rah-rah meeting in the base theater to show us ground-crew what our planes were doing. One mission was against a cement plant in Northern Iraq, about a mile long and 1/3 mile wide target zone. The base intel guy showed us before-and-after slides on the screen.

The "after" pic showed perhaps eight or nine craters outside of the TZ, out of 153 bombs dropped. I honestly felt sorry for those poor bastards at that point. That cement plant was almost literally obliterated; it looked like a moonscape. And that was three planes.

I could only imagine what we did to that fortification line they dug south and west of Kuwait ... and their troops inside ... once we got to that stage of the war a week or two later.
 
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So the B-52J will see the original design through to a full 100 years of continuous service? I'm surprised that more isn't being made of that achievement. That's even longer than the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear is projected to be in service.
 
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