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2022-09-28 Science & Technology
This Is What The B-52 Will Look Like With Its New Rolls-Royce Engines
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Posted by 3dc 2022-09-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.
Posted by Classer 2022-09-28 03:17||   2022-09-28 03:17|| Front Page Top

#2 ....I'm sorry, but it won't be the same without the sound of those TF-33s.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-09-28 06:26||   2022-09-28 06:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks are not the BUFF's long suit. The new engines should make it better at what it's already really good at.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-28 07:09||   2022-09-28 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Sweet!
Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-09-28 07:56||   2022-09-28 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 
Question: Since it's a DEFCON 1 Go To War vital weapon, will the engines and parts used be made and kept here in Indianapolis, IN? Or will DC Swamp allow them to farm them out to its 8 ASIAN manufacturing locations?

Also, since Old school, has worked for 50+ years.
I have to question the implementing of a new technology to basically a 60-year-old airframe design that has undergone numerous changes.

WHY?
Having worked as backup IT Tech on the KC-130 Fuel Tanker Simulator @ SJ AFB, NC. I got to look at a lot of Declassified crash data and noticed the B-52 1950-70's models had an unusual number of right wing issues, leaks, detachments etc. causing a number of crashes. Understanding the BUF has had many upgrades over its life span. Will these new engines place a even greater strain on the Wing/Fuel Tank structure?


Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-28 09:08||   2022-09-28 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm about the same age as the B52 and wish that I could get a multi million dollar rebuild.
Posted by Too Old To Work 2022-09-28 09:57||   2022-09-28 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd like to be around when the "BUFFS" celebrate their bicentennial!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-09-28 10:30||   2022-09-28 10:30|| Front Page Top

#8 First DC-3 flight, December 17, 1935. We might make the centennial on that one.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-28 10:34||   2022-09-28 10:34|| Front Page Top

#9 They'll have Nacelles at this rate.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-28 10:49||   2022-09-28 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 

I feel some will agree the B-52has outlived its Nuclear use in this Hypersonic missile age.

It does a pretty good job of carpet bombing, against low tech enemy combatants, tho.

Maybe a KISS solution of effective neutralization weapons produced in high numbers might be a better way to go?
Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-28 12:44||   2022-09-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Is the B-21 supposed to replace the B-52 fleet or supplement it?
Posted by Matt 2022-09-28 13:41||   2022-09-28 13:41|| Front Page Top

#12 B-21 is intended to allow retirement of all B-52 and B-1 in service. Assuming they can get to the desired 100 planes or more.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-28 13:51||   2022-09-28 13:51|| Front Page Top

#13 ^#6 roflol!
Posted by borgboy 2022-09-28 14:32||   2022-09-28 14:32|| Front Page Top

#14 #10 the 52 is still a usable air frame to deliver ordnance in a stand-off profile and possible anti-ship/sub missions.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-28 16:43||   2022-09-28 16:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Once LRSO is available, the rotary dispenser in a B-52 will make it a very dangerous aircraft.

Not that it isn't already.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-28 17:16||   2022-09-28 17:16|| Front Page Top

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