To: Psalm 73
IIRC older models B52s carried MUCH more than this over Vietnam. We basically flew the wings off those models. The base design was modified differently than the models we’ve kept.
32 posted on
11/14/2018 8:10:16 AM PST by
JohnBovenmyer
(Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
To: JohnBovenmyer
My understanding is that about a third of the payload was replaced with targeting and other systems.
37 posted on
11/14/2018 9:55:09 AM PST by
lepton
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