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Planning For 80-Year Old B-52s

Posted by Hemos on from the keep-'em-going dept.

Merry_B.Buck writes "The B-52 Stratofortress, famous for its carpet bombing (or, as the Pentagon prefers, "long sticking") was designed in the 1940s to carry boxcar-sized atomic bombs. This Fast Company analysis describes how the US plans to keep these planes -- the youngest of which was built in 1962 -- flying until 2040. "

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  1. Carpet bombing is the aerial equivalent of mines by renoX · · Score: 2, Troll

    It is effective, but it is UGLY (and that's an understatement).

    It is so ugly that words cannot convey the meaning: it is as ugly as the "bombing" of the world trade center..
    Excuse me not to get so excited about a plane designed for carpet bombing..

    Carpet bombing is IMPRECISE so there are many "colateral damages", an military term for innocent civilians ie also innocent children, women and men mutilated and killed..