Aircrew from the 419th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., land a B-52 Stratofortress following its ferry flight from Boeing’s San Antonio facility on Dec. 8, 2025. The aircraft, ...

The B-52H received the AN/APQ-188 AESA radar at Boeing’s San Antonio facility and has now arrived at Edwards AFB for the ground and flight testing planned throughout 2026. The U.S. Air Force has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force is updating its B-52 with new radar technology and engines. US President Donald Trump's STATCOM nominee said the ...

The enhanced B-52 platform is expected to play a critical role in the Air Force’s bomber strategy for years to come. Efforts to incorporate new upgrades to the Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress may be ...

The life expectancy of the B-52 had never been the interesting aspect. The kinds of engineering story that are going to be of interest in 2026 is what it will take to put a Cold War-era bomber into ...

A B-52 lands at Boeing’s San Antonio facility in May 2023 for the service’s radar modernization program. Credit: U.S. Air Force Costs for U.S. Air Force and Boeing’s plan to upgrade the radars on B-52 ...

Despite soaring costs and complex retrofitting, the B-52’s deep modernization aims to transform it into a digitally upgraded B-52J, extending Cold War-era firepower into the 2050s and beyond. The ...

Rolls-Royce said on Feb. 24 that it has completed altitude and operability testing for the company’s F130 engine as part of ...

The US Air Force is updating its B-52 with new radar technology and engines. US President Donald Trump's STATCOM nominee said the upgrades make the B-52 basically "a new airplane." The upgrades are ...

Planned upgrades for the US Air Force's 70-year-old strategic bomber will basically make the aircraft "a new airplane," President Donald Trump's nominee to head US Strategic Command said. The B-52 ...