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🇺🇸 B-52H Stratofortress
Air · Boeing — ABD (🇺🇸) · 1955
A 70-year-old giant strategic bomber: not stealthy itself, but it strikes from kilometers away — beyond enemy air defenses — with stand-off cruise missiles (AGM-86 ALCM, JASSM, LRASM). Its eight engines are being re-engined with the F130 to keep it flying into the ~2050s.
Specifications
- Type: Strategic bomber (subsonic)
- Crew: 5
- Combat range: ~14,200 km (unrefueled)
- Max payload: ~32,000 kg (70,000 lb)
- Ceiling: ~15,000 m (50,000 ft)
- Current engines: 8× Pratt & Whitney TF33 (new: Rolls-Royce F130)
- Cruise-missile capacity: 20× AGM-86 ALCM or AGM-158 JASSM
- Stand-off munitions: AGM-86 ALCM, AGM-158 JASSM/JASSM-ER, LRASM, AGM-181 LRSO
- Stealth: No — strikes from range
Beats: Tu-95MS, H-6N, B-1B Lancer
Loses to: B-2 Spirit, B-21 Raider
A 'missile arsenal' that opens long-range salvos with up to 20 cruise missiles from outside air-defense range; a stand-off platform, not a penetrator.
Related systems
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