Well basically we have rockets now. If we want to use more advanced technology we use that, or drones.
When we need bombs those old ones still do their job.
Excuse me, this is NCD. I’m gonna need you to dumb that answer down and make it substantially less factual.
Old bombers are fucking awesome and you show the bad guy that you have balls of steel by dropping balls of steel on their fancy doormat instead of some virgin rockets or drones.
Ever try to fuck a drone?
Try? I’m no fuckin quitter
To shreds you say.
I don’t kiss and tell.
Ain’t got no hips.
BUFF WILL LIVE FOREVER
Buff and Franklin!
Russia is still flying the Tu-95. I think it’s the champion here.
if you consider H-6 a variant of Tu-16, then all three had first flight in 1952
True, but in the case of a tie I would still give the victory to the Tu-95 because it has propellers.
Turns out stealth bombers are expensive and large super fast bombers are expensive and not much better. So we just keep ticking the old frames over while we slowly build up generations of stealth bombers.
For what it’s worth the B52 will eventually get phased out by the B21. I think they just want some of that savings from not running so many different airframes.
The question is will the B52 make it over the century mark?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep a few flying just to say they made it past 100. The plan for retirement is already pretty close to 100 years.
Yeah it goes well with American pride at least, we have the oldest active duty naval vessel why not the a bomber that was made when vacuum tubes were the norm.
Strategic bombers a not real, they don’t exist!
Grandpa Buff and Franklin for President
