A 65-year-old bomber has just gone into 2026 flight testing with an AESA type of radar in a fighter style, a capability leap that would have sounded like science fiction when the first Stratofortress ...

Engine maker Rolls-Royce announced it has completed altitude and operability testing on the F130 engines for the B-52 Stratofortress.

The life expectancy of the B-52 had never been the interesting aspect. The kinds of engineering story that are going to be of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force is updating its B-52 with new radar technology and engines. US President Donald Trump's STATCOM nominee said the ...

Many of the aircraft currently serving the needs of the American military are decades-old, but only one of them has been officially confirmed to extend its service until it reaches at least a century ...

The planned replacement of aging Pratt & Whitney TF33-PW-103s is intended to keep the B-52s flying after the B-1 and B-2 bombers retire in the 2030s, when the upgraded Stratofortress and ...

Boeing received a $2 billion contract last month to start work on extending the life of 60-year-old U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers into the 2060s. The program to upgrade all 76 B-52Hs is ...

The United States Air Force did not announce the deployment of two B-52s to Japan, and it is unclear where the aircraft originated from. This week, two United States Air Force Boeing B-52H ...

MINOT, N.D. -- The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it will investigate an incident that occurred between a Delta regional jet and a B-52 aircraft. On Friday, a Delta regional jet on ...

Considering geopolitical tensions in Europe, the B-52s’ presence in Spain is appropriate. Earlier this month, the US Air Force dispatched an unknown number of B-52 bombers to southern Spain. According ...