If the RAF had had B-52s...
what are the chances they would still be in service (a) if built the same as USAF aircraft or (b) with as much UK equipment as the MoD thought possible?
I read the other day they're expected to stay in service until the 2050s which is remarkably good going for a plane whose first flight was in 1952.
I can't help feeling they'd have been retired early except that with UK equipment they might never have been delivered.