{"id":400110,"date":"2026-04-05T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-usaf-still-rely-b-52\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:00:17","slug":"why-does-the-us-air-force-still-rely-on-the-b-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=400110","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The US Air Force Still Rely On The B-52?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force still relies on the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60642\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-52\/\"  >Boeing B-52 Stratofortress<\/a><\/span> (and its 70,000 lbs of payload capacity) to bring massive ordinance to bear in permissive environments. Perhaps more importantly, it is also a missile truck for long-range bespoke stand-off munitions in non-permissive environments. This enduring aircraft allows the Air Force to make up its bomber numbers in an affordable manner in a world where it hasn&#8217;t been able to purchase high-end stealth bombers in sufficient numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-52 stays relevant thanks to its low operating costs, its plentiful remaining flight hours, and the ability to use stand-off munitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2038,398,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-boeing","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400111,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400110\/revisions\/400111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}