Three Airmen received Air Force Global Strike Command’s Gen. Curtis E. LeMay award after averting an in-flight catastrophe aboard a B-52 over Louisiana in 2022.
Moroccan Royal Air Force fighters escorted a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress on May 31 to help mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S.'s largest annual exercise in Africa. U.S. Africa Command's African Lion featured more than 8,100 participants from 27 nations, running from April ...
Two B-52 Stratofortresses from a U.S. Air Force bomber task force flew over the Baltics and Eastern Europe on May 28, U.S. Air Forces in Europe said. The pair of B-52s were escorted by Spanish F-18 Hornets, German Eurofighter Typhoons, and Polish MiG-29s.
Two B-52 bombers made a rare touchdown at a civilian airport earlier this month to practice landing at non-military airfields. The jets from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., landed at Chennault International Airport, La., on April 12. “When it comes to nuclear war, all bets ...
Two B-52 bombers flew with fighter aircraft from the U.S., South Korea, and Japan southwest of Kyushu Island near the East China Sea on April 2, marking the first trilateral aerial exercise between the nations this year and just the third one ever. The exercise ...
A flight test of an AGM-183A hypersonic missile over the central Pacific Ocean is expected at any moment, based on navigational warnings and movements of tracking aircraft to the Kwajalein Atoll area. The test may be the last for the ARRW, which the Air Force ...
A B-52H bomber at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. executed an emergency landing due to an engine fire early Feb. 23. All crew members are reported unharmed, and the bomber operation at the base continues as usual as of Feb. 27, a base spokesperson told ...
Two B-52 Stratofortresses from the 5th Bomb Wing conducted a flyover at Changi Air Base during the Singapore Airshow late last week. The BUFFs, currently deployed to Anderson Air Force Base in Guam, flew to Singapore to be featured at the biennial event, which concluded ...
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew alongside three Philippine FA-50 fighters during a patrol over the South China Sea in the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on Feb. 19.
The U.S. Air Force, Marines Corps, and Navy, along with four partner nations, flexed their airpower in an “elephant walk” at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, to kick off Pacific Air Forces’ largest annual multilateral exercise, Cope North.
B-52 bombers from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., arrived in Guam on Jan. 30, just a few days ahead of Pacific Air Forces’ largest multilateral exercise, Cope North. The long-range bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing landed at Andersen Air Force Base to take ...
Starting in the late 2020s, the Air Force’s fleet of B-52 bombers will transform with new engines, a new radar, updated communications and navigation equipment and more. What was the B-52H will become the re-designated, upgraded B-52J. At one of only two operational B-52 bases ...