Go BUFF!
1940's you say?
“The air force currently plans to retire the supersonic Boeing/Rockwell B-1B and the B-52H in the 1940s as their Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) replacement steps in.”
I hear that B-29 is really gonna be something!
A $9 million contract? That won’t even pay for the feasibility studies. $900 million I would believe.
Putin would be retiring these right into ISIS positions. And running the supplies low in the process.
Of course, the difference between accomodating conventional and and nuke warheads is likely not much more that electronic wiring arrangements for PAL links. I doubt the warhead hardware hardpoints are drastically different. We have had dual warhead cruise missiles for decades.
That makes sense, it was built by the greatest generation.
There is a B-52 in the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. It’s rippled skin shows some of the stresses it went through. What a great old bird. That being said, I was on the runway one day attending a KC-135 and was near a B-1 bomber firing up. For some unknown reason I had a desire to salute the bird and it’s pilot and watched it taxi out and take off. I didn’t know at the time but this was it’s last flight to the Museum. I also had a small part in the design of it’s engines years before. The only aircraft in my opinion in America’s arsenal that says bring it, where ever you are. We should have made many more of them.
Of course the Commie Chinese can build as many nukes as they want.