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Old 22nd Feb 2018, 11:39
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Originally Posted by ORAC
Having now decided to keep the B-52 around until 2050, while replacing Rockwell B-1Bs and Northrop Grumman B-2s with Northrop B-21 Raider stealth bombers, the service’s fiscal 2019 proposal would launch nine new B-52 modernization programs.
If they can stretch it out to 2052, then that would make a nice round 100 years of B-52s!
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