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US Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia Many aircraft have come and gone over the past century of military aviation. But a few workhorse aircraft have endured, continuing to fill a role above the battlefield. Theres an old saying: "If it aint broke, dont fix it." Some aerial warhorses take that pretty literally.  That definitely seems to be the philosophy used by many countries around the world in retaining large numbers of older aircraft as the mainstays of thei...

Air Force B-52s conduct third Bomber Task Force mission in Middle East this year January 28 A B-52 Stratofortress from the 2nd Bomb Wing out of Barksdale Air Force Base, La., flies with Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force F-15SAs during a bomber task force mission over U.S. Central Command Jan. 27. (Senior Airman Roslyn Ward/Air Force) U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress aircrews from the 2nd Bomb Wing completed a long-range, short-duration defensive mission in the Middle East Jan. 27 — marking...

The old plane may still use propellers, but it is still modernized and carries a powerful payload. Key Point: Moscow wanted its own strategic bomber and that is the Tu-95. The bomber has served for a long time and is ready to keep flying and fighting. Few aircraft are as distinctive as the massive Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear,” a four-engine Russian strategic bomber and maritime patrol plane with a gigantic unicorn-like refueling probe, giving it the appearance of a monstrosity lurching in from ...

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill...

Russia’s Unsophisticated Su-15 Was Deadly For a Time With around 1,300 examples in service at the type’s peak, the twin-engine Su-15 in the late 1970s was the most numerous interceptor in Soviet service. Heres What You Need to Remember: Given the distances involved, the U.S. Air Force might have struggled to sustain an escort force all the way to the Soviet interior, but Shatrov worried nonetheless. “While F-4s and Su-15s had the same maneuvering characteristics and armament, the F-15 wo...

US Air Force/Kelly White "Ghost Rider" and "Wise Guy," the only B-52 Stratofortress bombers to be resurrected from the Air Forces "boneyard," are undergoing maintenance before returning to Minot Air Force Base. Both were retired to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Arizona and were never to fly again, but theyve been resurrected to bring the fleet back to the Congressionally mandated 76 B-52s. Only two B-52 Stratofortress bombers have been r...

Iran's Navy will resume patrols in the Red Sea, the Chief of Staff of the armed forces said

US Air Force On January 10, 1964, a B-52H bomber with the serial number 61-0023 took off from Kansas on a test mission to examine the effects of turbulence at varying altitudes and airspeeds. By the time the bomber landed in Arkansas hours later, its vertical stabilizer had been shorn off, and the Air Force had learned a lot more about what the B-52 could take. On January 10, 1964, Boeing civilian test pilot Chuck Fisher and his three man crew launched from Wichita...

The deployment is the third flight of nuclear-capable Stratofortresses to the region in less than two months