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B-52 Stratofortress Bombers Missions Over The Black Sea And Baltic Regions: An OSINT Analysis

October 24, 2019 David Cenciotti

The “Buffs” deployed to RAF Fairford are flying across Europe, from the Black Sea to the Baltic region. Let’s have a look at the details that could be gathered by means of Open Source Analysis. […]

Video Inside A B-52 Flying A Nuclear Alert Training Mission Provides A Rare View Of The Pilots’ Thermal Flash Protective Goggles

October 1, 2019 David Cenciotti

A short clip brings you inside the cockpit of a B-52 strategic bomber flying a nuclear alert training sortie. And one of the coolest things is the scene showing a pilot wearing the PLZT goggles. […]

Here Are The Shots Of The U.S. B-52s Flying First Deterrence Mission As Part Of Bomber Task Force Based in Qatar

May 13, 2019 David Cenciotti

B-52s as well as F-15Cs and F-35As have conducted “deterrence missions” in the CENTCOM AOR recently. As already reported, four B-52 bombers deployed from Barksdale AFB, Lousiana, to Al Udeid, Qatar, as part of a […]

B-52H Crew from Guam Locates Ocean Canoe Crew Gone Adrift in Pacific In A Bomber’s Rare Maritime SAR Mission

July 3, 2018 Tom Demerly

In a Dramatic Open Ocean Search an Air Force Crew Finds Paddlers Missing Six Days. The lost canoe was located by the crew from one of the B-52H after it was compared to a similar […]

U.S. B-52 Bomber Performs Show Of Force Over Moroccan Range During Exercise African Lion 2018. And Here Are Some Interesting Details.

April 28, 2018 David Cenciotti

A Stratofortress bomber flew over Morocco as part of a round-trip Global Power mission from Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. On Apr. 20, a USAF B-52 made several bombing runs over a range near Tan Tan, Morocco, […]