Come on!! Aren’t the frames getting fatigued by now. B52s used to loiter outside Russia with nuclear weapons. Before we had our extensive missile defense set up. That was wear and tear on the frame
“B52s used to loiter outside Russia with nuclear weapons. Before we had our extensive missile defense set up. That was wear and tear on the frame.”
The “Iron Dome” airborne alerts were cancelled long ago after a number of Broken Arrow incidents. The remaining B-52’s are younger than that and have fewer logged flight hours than a typical airliner even half as old.