US Air Force turned bomber from doomsday plane to truck

The US Air Force has conducted exercises on the flexible combat use of B-52 strategic bombers, turning them into delivery trucks. “Russian newspaper”.

“The core of the concept being tested is the deployment of attack aircraft over operational airfields to increase survivability. This is standard Air Force practice in many countries, including Russia. But the Americans went further and loaded the bombers with the necessary items for work in the field. It fits surprisingly little on large airplanes,” the newspaper writes.

As part of the exercise, four B-52s flew from Barksdale Air Force Base in California to Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state. Instead of a combat load, two containers with a total carrying capacity of about three tons were placed in the gun compartments of the aircraft.

Earlier in the United States they said that the bombers were B-21 Raider. makes It worries Russia and China.

the previous day in the USA wanted The Tu-95MS is a key element of Russia’s nuclear triad.

Prior to that, China reported that the Russian promising stealth bomber PAK DA “will not let NATO sleep peacefully”, superior in performance to the American B-2 stealth aircraft.



Source: Gazeta

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