[Brad from Tennessee]

PHOTO AT LINK.

[rdl6989]

That’ll leave a mark for sure.

[Red Badger]

Where’s the nukes?..................

[hosepipe]

[PJ-Comix]

Colonel Dutch Holland wants to know where his B-47 is.

[PJ-Comix]

Colonel Dutch Holland wants to know where his B-47 is.

[lee martell]

“This here is called the Love Shack. Can I show you my missile?” Hello, hello?

[Kartographer]

Here's a B-52 Stratofortress and all of its ammunition ordnance in one photo.

[central_va]

[oh8eleven]

Saw, listened to and felt boo-koo B-52 drops in VN. Can’t even begin to tell you how great that was.

[Tailback]

I’m a 20+ year veteran, including some time in the Air National Guard so I feel entitled to criticize this photo.

Maybe, just maybe, if the Air Force would stop spending so much time and man hours on photo op BS they could easily fund the A-10 that saves the lives of troops on the ground.

OR! Wrap your heads around this crazy idea! Create a Bomber to replace the B-52 that carries MORE payload, uses modern efficient off the shelf engines, radar, electronics, targeting, etc..... An airframe is a platform to strap whatever gizmo to....and (drumroll) increases crew survivability. Imagine that you dipshit fighter jockies.

[Uncle Miltie]

Yeah, but Raqqa is still standing.

[hosepipe]

Amazing the STUFF you gotta KILL to remain FREE...

[PapaBear3625]

That pic has been around for a long time.

[SpirituTuo]

I had the honor and pleasure to meet and hear Col. Bill Dabney USMC while I was at VMI. One of my most famous quotes from him was: “A B-52 will Christianize anybody.”

If you don’t who Bill Dabney was, or not heard of the Siege of Khe Sahn, please read about him here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Dabney

Oh yeah, he was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

But can it carry it's own fighter support?

I remember when they built the AF museum at Wright-Patterson AFB they built the huge building arounf the B-36.

[MamaB]

One of my brothers worked on them and the other flew on one when he was in the USAF.

[afsnco]

The author got a little confused about the “standard loadout,” implying all those munitions he listed could fit on or in the bird at once. In reality, those numbers are either/or. The ALCMs alone would weigh 63000, and the bird has a 70000 limitation.

Amazing airframe, nonetheless.

[fso301]

Nice picture but at 50 years old, that's like the US navy using pre-dreadnought battleships in WW-II.

USS Texas circa 1898

[G Larry]

I originally signed up for the only “not fun” job on that aircraft.

Defensive Fire Control - In the D and earlier mod’s, the DFC sat in the tail. Except that you didn’t take off in that position.

After reaching mission elevation you got to crawl across the top of the cable-tray, above the bomb bay, back to the tail. And you didn’t want to be whipped around back there in bad air.

Fortunately they selected me to work Nuke Weapons instead and I spent the later phase of the Vietnam War working MMIII ICBMs at Vandenberg AFB.

[ßuddaßudd]

The best BUFF everrrr . .!