The Air Force now wants to replace them with the Rolls-Royce F130 engine. Boeing, the Air Force, and Rolls-Royce had spent ...

Key Points and Summary - The B-52 is aging, but upgrades aim to keep it relevant. New F130 engines, an AESA radar, and standoff weapons—especially the 1,000-mile JASSM-XR and the nuclear AGM-181 ...

The US Air Force has awarded Boeing Defense Systems a task order valued at $2.04bn for the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement ...

The US Air Force is updating its B-52 with new radar technology and engines. US President Donald Trump's STATCOM nominee said the upgrades make the B-52 basically "a new airplane." The upgrades are ...

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has served the US Air Force honorably since 1955. One of the US Air Force’s oldest bombers was recently spotted carrying the service’s next-generation nuclear cruise ...

American aircraft maker Boeing said it delivered the first B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) flight test aircraft to the USAF.

The first European BTF deployment of the new financial year kicked off at Morón Air Base, Spain, on Nov. 8 with the arrival of three B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers. Three aircraft from the 2nd ...

Considering geopolitical tensions in Europe, the B-52s’ presence in Spain is appropriate. Earlier this month, the US Air Force dispatched an unknown number of B-52 bombers to southern Spain. According ...

The North Dakota Air National Guard will establish a new support unit for the Air Force’s B-52 bombers at Minot Air Force Base next year, Gov. Kelly Armstrong announced Thursday. The B-52 Operational ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has begun the process of evaluating a new radar for its fleet of Boeing B-52H heavy bombers. A lone B-52H, equipped with a modernised active electronically scanned array (AESA) ...

The Boeing B-52 is on track to become the first jet-powered aircraft to reach 100 years of continuous service, a milestone it will hit in the 2050s, thanks in part to its strategic reinvention and ...