The new contract covers the Post-Critical Design Review phase of the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, which will ...

Boeing Defense Systems has secured a major $2.04 billion task order from the U.S. Department of Defense to advance the B-52 ...

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress looks like a relic from another era, and in some ways it is, but its eight small turbojets ...

Boeing Defense Systems received a $2.0 billion contract from the Air Force for work on B-52 aircraft. The Defense Department said Tuesday it was awarding the company the funding for commercial engine ...

World War II was the most devastating conflict in human history, and while it was horrific, it also spurred many innovations and inventions. This included the development of long-range strategic ...

Rolls-Royce said the new engines planned for the B-52 Stratofortress will go into more intensive altitude testing in early 2025, now that it has passed its critical design review. (Staff Sgt. Lauren ...

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — As it idled on the flight line here, a B-52H Stratofortress known as the Red Gremlin II looked much the same as it did in the 1960s. But the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 ...

It seems like it's been forever since we learned that the B-52 Stratofortress long-range strategic bomber will get new engines, but as we get ready to step into 2025, word reached us about the new ...

BOSSIER PARISH, La. (KSLA) - INFORMATION PROVIDED BY BUILDING OUR REGION’S FUTURE: VRC Metal Systems, a leading repair technology company, announced it will build a $1.56 million, state of the art ...

The eight-engined Stratofortress was designed to haul heavy bomb payloads long distances, and in that simple, straightforward respect, the B-52 can still perform. The new Rolls Royce F130 engines, ...

A recently released fiscal 2024 report by the Pentagon Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) noted concurrency challenges for the re-engining of the B-52 bomber fleet under the U.S. Air ...

A B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., takes off at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on April 14, 2023. (Airman 1st Class William Pugh/U.S. Air Force) ...