First the A-10's now the B-52's

[bushmaster1313]

The old news was that the Warthogs were on a roll
The recent news is that the B-52's are putting down the hurt
Are CMP M-1's getting reactivated from Ready Reserve?

 

[shouldazagged]

Best close-air-support and tank-killer aircraft ever, and the most effective and versatile bomber ever, respectively. The B-2 may take the bomber title, but the mighty BUFF has held it for a very long time.

 

[Targets Guy]

Nothing like a B-52. Adversary's have nothing like em. Be a sad day when they are gone.

 

[amazingflapjack]

was there when they shook the ground from 60,000 feet in the air.

 

[Targets Guy]

was there when they shook the ground from 60,000 feet in the air.

I sat on the roof of a hutch at Phan Rang and watched an Arc Light strike. We were miles away and it was still an awesome sight.

I also took a debrief from a flight of F-4s that were mistakenly cleared into an area when B-52s above them dropped on their target. Fortunately no F-4s were harmed but the crews were very very angry at the FAC.

 

[rwsmith]

I just read today.....

They are deploying one to Syria but it doesn't say what capacity they are to fill.

 

[alwslate]

Are CMP M-1's getting reactivated from Ready Reserve?

Yeah, every time their new owners get them out for a trip to
a range or just to admire them and return them to ready reserve in a gun safe or closet.

 

[crazyphil]

amazingflapjack: Your comment about the earth shaking brought back
memory of long, long, ago. The earth was trembling and a roar could
be heard. When they finally appeared on the horizon it was a flight of
B-36s. An awesome sight and sound.
Another time I was driving South of Las Vegas and a B-52 came over me
from behind. I think they were practicing flying under the radar. It was
not 60,000 feet. More like 60 feet. Or so it seemed. What a thrill.

 

[Hillbilly77]

How do you clear out an ISIS bingo hall?

Call out "B-52".

 

[Muddyboot]

I read a few months ago that B-1's were being pulled from active duty for much needed upgrades. That may be why the B-52's are back in the war zone.

 

[vigil617]

My son-in-law is a B-52 navigator at Barksdale, preparing to deploy soon. 'Til now it has been to Guam, but with the news out yesterday, I wonder if it might be Qatar. [UPDATE: He is there. Found out last night.]

He's also a "Patch" -- a weapons officer in a rather elite fraternity in the Air Force who complete the weapons school and are qualified as mission planners involving multiple platforms.

I'm real proud of him. Bright, dedicated, handsome as hell, totally enamoured of my daughter, and (speaking as a dad) worthy of her. I am a lucky fellow.

 

[bushmaster1313]

How do you clear out an ISIS bingo hall?

Call out "B-52".

Hillbilly
Did you make that up?
Tell the truth

 

[vigil617]

Hillbilly
Did you make that up?
Tell the truth

I think it might be a recycled one from the 60's and 70's, except that it used to be "a Hanoi bingo hall."

Still funny though!

 

[Hillbilly77]

Hillbilly
Did you make that up?
Tell the truth

I think it might be a recycled one from the 60's and 70's, except that it used to be "a Hanoi bingo hall."

Still funny though!

I recycled it.

I first heard it as a kid during Desert Storm.

 

[bigwheelzip]

One of the strategic highlights of the B-52's history has to be it's role in ending the Balkan conflict and it's genocidal "Ethnic Cleansing". After leaving this conflict to the Europeans to fix, and having them fail tragically, the US Air Force ended it in 78 days of bombing. Teddy Roosevelt's "Big Stick" in action.

The Aviationist » Operation Allied Force: B-52 Stratofortress bombers involvement in the Air Campaign over Kosovo

 

[jack the toad]

I read a few months ago that B-1's were being pulled from active duty for much needed upgrades. That may be why the B-52's are back in the war zone.

US to send nuclear-capable B-52 warplanes to bomb ISIS in Syria and Iraq | Daily Mail Online

 

[BigBill]

i seen a b52 up so close I could count the rivets as it was flying low over a mountain top in the national forest in vt. I was looking for a place to hide.
We were bear hunting.

After they carpet bomb it gives the locals something to do by cleaning the carpets. If you remember carpet bombing brought the NV back to the table to talk peace. It must be a sight to see carpet bombing at a ground level?

War? What if they said a war would start on this spot and no one showed up to fight it? If we only fought for peace that hard as we do for war.

 

[loeman]

At the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque, they have a B-52 that was made in 1952 and spent its entire service here at Kirtland Air Force Base. Right now they are attempting to raise money for total repainting. I think they need to raise about $150,000 to get the job done. They truly are something to see.

 

[amazingflapjack]

clearedin...

I sat on the roof of a hutch at Phan Rang and watched an Arc Light strike. We were miles away and it was still an awesome sight.

I also took a debrief from a flight of F-4s that were mistakenly cleared into an area when B-52s above them dropped on their target. Fortunately no F-4s were harmed but the crews were very very angry at the FAC.

I knew a helicopter pilot who was taking some officers on a recon fly over in a valley that they had an upcoming operation in. Bill said that the flight was uneventful until a Marine fast mover swooped down and streaked away after a very quick look. While still pondering this, bombs started falling on either side of them. They were evidently between 2 of the 3 bomb paths of an ARC LIGHT. Further questioning revealed that the bird was being blown all over the place, and that debris was blowing all around, and even through, the ship. They obviously made it, but Mama Sahn earned her Piasters when she cleaned his britches after that flight, or so he reported, when pressed.

 

[LouisianaJoe]

In the late 70's, I wrote computerized security systems. I installed one at a cruise missile production facility in Kansas. One day, I walked outside when 3 B-52's flying in formation passed over at a couple hundred feet above the ground. It was the most awesome loud sound that I have ever heard. In front of the facility was a B-52 with the ends of its wings weighted down to the ground. I assume that it was some kind of stress test.