Description

Celebrating seven decades of service since the B-52 joined the US Air Force in 1955, this brand new bookazine takes a fresh look at the origins of the type, the personal battles fought to make it happen, the technical challenges of its specification, the competitors that came and went, and the changing military strategies across the ages in which it operated.

How was it built? What developments were necessary for its manufacture, and what were the weapons specifically designed by its enemies to bring it down from the skies? Trigger times when it came close to cancellation, upgrades and new engines for the B-52J.

The weapons it carried across those 70 years, the very different targets against which it was assigned, and the changing nature of the US Air Force in which it shaped new ways of waging war, itself an influence on strategic thinking – are all explained in simple and understandable terms.