The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades.

The B-52 bomber can reach a top speed of 650 miles an hour and can reach altitudes as high as 47,700 feet. LeMay instituted a policy of keeping B-52s in the air 24 hours a day, 365 days a year that continued from the 1950s through the late 1960s.

2025年2月25日 · B-52, U.S. long-range heavy bomber, designed by the Boeing Company in 1948, first flown in 1952, and first delivered for military service in 1955. Though originally intended to be an atomic-bomb carrier capable of reaching the Soviet Union , it has proved adaptable to a number of missions, and dozens of B-52s remained in service in the early ...

2021年11月14日 · Consolidated had built the B-24 Liberator during World War II. Boeing constructed the successful B-17 and B-29, and Martin the B-26 Marauder medium bomber. In June, Boeing received a contract to build a mockup of its proposed design, labeled as the XB-52. It bore little resemblance to the aircraft which eventually emerged.

B-52 Stratofortress Capabilities. The B-52 is capable of dropping or launching the widest array of weapons in the U.S. inventory. This includes gravity bombs, cluster bombs, precision guided missiles and joint direct attack munitions. The H model can …

On November 23, 1945, only weeks after the end of World War II, the US Air Material Command issued performance specifications for a new long-range, nuclear bomber. Calling for a cruising speed of 300 mph and a combat radius of 5,000 miles, AMC invited bids the following February from Martin, Boeing, and Consolidated.

The B-52 was first used to carry conventional ordnance in the Vietnam War in missions executed under an operation code-named Arc Light. While most mis - sions during the war were blanket bombardments, the B-52 also provided direct tactical support to the Army and the Marine Corps. During the Vietnam War,

2019年6月4日 · In the Second World War LeMay’s drive and dynamism was such that both in Europe and the Pacific he almost single-handedly changed the concept of long-range bombing forever. LeMay wanted a B-52 with a higher cruising speed and longer range.

One of the most recognizable aircraft in the world and an icon of the United States’ Cold War deterrent, the B-52 Stratofortress was for decades the U.S. Air Force’s primary strategic nuclear...

2013年2月11日 · Since the 1950s, the Boeing B-52 has been America’s “big stick.” This massive and far-ranging aircraft began as a high-level strategic nuclear bomber, changed to a low-level nuclear strategic bomber when Soviet anti-aircraft missiles improved, and then evolved again into a conventional bomber in Vietnam.