Interesting Engineering Flying the B-52: Cold War Giant, Still on Duty Posted: April 18, 2025 | Last updated: April 19, 2025 The B-52 Stratofortress isn’t just a bomber it’s a flying piece of ...

I'd hate to go back to the Cold War, but I have a feeling that it was a big part of the deterrent to have a nuclear war because we had this machine. FERGUSON: I was a navigator on B-52 D models ...

One of the most widely known accidents that occurred during the Cold war was in 1966, where a B-52 bomber returning to North Carolina, Spain collided mid-air with a KC-135 tanker during a ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Global military spending surged to an unprecedented $2.72 trillion in 2024, jumping 9.4% from the ...

the largest single NATO expenditure since the end of the Cold War. The B-2 capability has doubled the strike force at the base, which also includes the older B-1 and B-52 bombers. The role of the ...

US Air Force B-52 planes conduct aerial refueling which helps keep the planes airborne longer and saves time landing and refueling. Following is a transcript of the video. US Air Force B-52 planes ...

According to reports, in 1991, following the end of the Cold War, which established the United ... “peaceful transit”, and put its fleet of B-52 bombers in Diego Garcia on high-alert.