According to its 2025 Almanac, the USAF maintains 76 active B-52Hs (18 of them in the Air Force Reserve), a number that exceeds the combined total of B-1Bs (46) and B-2s (20). The average age of B-52s ...
The B-52 was born in the shadow of World War II but entered a very different world. First flight: April 15, 1952. By the 1960s there were 742 airframes built across eight variants but the aircraft’s ...