In 1964, a B-52H crew was pushing the bomber to its limits when suddenly things went very wrong. The vertical stabilizer—the tail fin—sheared off in flight, forcing the crew to make a wild ...

The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries.

What You Need to Know: Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, the last U.S. airman to down an enemy fighter as a B-52 tail gunner, was honored this month at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. -Moore ...

Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, who shot down an enemy MiG fighter jet from the tail of a B-52D during the Vietnam War, has been honored with a plaque at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The plaque was ...

Newsweek editor at large; former FBI double agent and the author of "How to Catch a Russian Spy" The B-52 is one of the most iconic symbols of America's military might. The massive eight-engine ...

When a B-52 loses all the engines on one side of the plane — the plane has a total of 8, four on each wing — the crew faces “the worst possible case for an engine-out situation.” ...

"The clock's ticking" on the B-52's current engines, an official said, so the Air Force wants to upgrade the bombers as fast as possible.

June 29, 2025, marks the 70th anniversary of the first operational Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress delivery ...

B-52 with retro paint job, futuristic weapons gets attention over Texas Plane spotters saw the bomber known as Wolfpack flying over Amarillo last week. Its mission was unclear.

The B-52 was built originally in the early 1950s to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union.