B-52 Upgrades: How The US Air Force Will Keep Its Oldest Bomber Flying For 100 Years

Besides the AC-130 gunship, no other conventional weapon in the United States Armed Forces arsenal symbolizes “Death From Above” for America’s enemies quite like a carpet-bombing raid by Boeing’s time-honored B-52 Stratofortress, AKA the “B.U.F.F.” (Big Ugly Fat Fellow if you’re in polite company, but in reality the acronym stands for “Big Ugly Fat F*ck*r”).