B-52 grave yard?

[ullu]

:eek :eek :eek

http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/albums/userpics/B52.SALT.Tucson_01.xl.jpg

COOL PIC!!!

[Red aRRow]

Yeah, pity they are being destroyed. :(

[Mujahid]

well the cold war is over...............but could i get one of these ? :idea2


Mujahid :cop

[Winter]

The unit storing the aircraft is known as the 'Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Centre as most planes are not actually destroyed but maintained in a flyable condition....Though I think the B-52s are being destroyed as part of some arms-limitation treaties or other...

You might want to check out the quite impressive birds-eye view photography of the air base at Microsoft's TerraServer. (http://terraserver-usa.com)

I think it is known as Davis-Montham Air Force Base though you may find it in 'Famous Places.'

[ullu]

Another big pic from terraservers


http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/albums/userpics/b52-breakdown.022.jpg

[Indus]

coo

[Majin-Vegeta]

WTF, that many bombers? and thier gettin rid of em?? :( B-52 are kool..remember how Pakistan stole one :D ahh..those were the days of fat and slow stinky planes..i still like the B-52 tho..

[gf0012-aust]

The B-52's are still tagged for another 40 years of strategic operations as stand off platforms etc...

If they go the distance that will mean they have been flying for 90 years.

Not bad for an old bomber. Whenever I see one I think of Dale Browns book.

[umair]

This Behemoth was in my opinion the best heavy bomber ever.(just take a look at all the variants and the roles they undertook.From nuke carrier to support of ground troops,ALCM carrier,SRAM carrier,strategic bomber,antishipping(can't remember the variant) etc etc) :usa

[Red aRRow]

.....remember how Pakistan stole one :D ahh..those ..

Pakistan stole one????.............Uhhhhhhhhhh certainly don't remember that. :roll :roll

[gf0012-aust]

I think I'd like to see a confirming link or news release on that one :D

[Majin-Vegeta]

man i cant find it...but i swear they stole one, i went to the Pak Air Show in Pakistan in like 2000, and they had an indian B-52 Bomber :D right beside thier own..the B-52 was a lil beat up..and had a lighter shade of green.

[The Watcher]

Majin, stop bullshitting. :roll

[Majin-Vegeta]

IM NOT BULLSHITTING! >_< its not my fault ppl cant put real info on the net, wat am i supposed to do?

i saw it at the stinkin Air show!!, i missed out on the F-16 Take off..but the fighters were all there..landed, and in the back..i saw TWO B-52..now NO IDIOT is gonna have 2 B-52's for no reason, And my dad AND uncle told me that thats the B-52 that Pakistan took from India, My uncle and Father would NEVER LIE, My father was born in 1954, therefore hes been in the 1965 and 71 war..my Uncle who is a Major in the Army fought in these wars..Now you think they would lie? why?

ill try and look up info..but i dunno wat to type, go try finding it yourself..and if u think im bullshitting contact ur **** family and you'll get the same response.

[WebMaster]

B-52 that Pakistan took from India,


Majin-Vegeta, India never had B-52, and Pakistan does not have any of those bombers. You've got the wrong info and its not wise to make a fool out of your self by posting unconfirmed and false info.

:arrow: B-52 were USAF, are USAF and will always be USAF ONLY as far as I see it.

[Gremlin29]

I concur with WebMaster, not a single operational B-52 has ever been loaned, sold, stolen by or given to a foreign interest. It is possible however that those were none flying hulks (static displays), we have a few on display in private museums in the US.

[Winter]

I certainly feel the US will attempt to maintain a small group of B-52s several years after the mainstream degeneration around 2045...It would be worth it to have the world's first 100-year-old aircraft design operation cycle...A major political and public victory, courtesy of the United States Air Force. :roll

Still years off though...Dammit, I hope I'm there to see it.

:frosty

[Majin-Vegeta]

Maybe it was some other bomber?

[Red aRRow]

Maybe Majin is talking about the B-57.

Majin did it look something like this??:
http://www.pakdef.info/pakmilitary/airforce/gallery/images/pafb57_big.jpg

[Majin-Vegeta]

eww! no, that things as small as a stinkin fighter..that thing was HUGE and had boxed windows on its face everywhere!, ill try n look for a pic atleast to show u how it looked like...

[umair]

The Il-18 must be it then.Pakistan acquired a squadron of them from china but were retired in two years time.Can any one post a pic?

[gf0012-aust]

Maybe it was a Russian Myaschiev?

[Majin-Vegeta]

mm...close..but it had more boxed windows..it wasnt just one line of em..man..i cant find the picture either :( nothing similar but that Il-18 is quite similar..just that it had more windows on the face side like those and well..a more rounded nose than a pointy one.

Maybe the ones pakistan got were modified or something? cuz these do look quite similar.

[Red aRRow]

Ok so was it something like this:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/493935/L/


I didn't put the image tags cuz that site does not allow hot linking.[/img]

[umair]

That's the IL-76 Shamayel not the IL-18 tactical bomber.

[gf0012-aust]

No offence intended, but any country that stole a B52 would have been bombed a little to send a rather significant message about ownership issues.

This isn't like the situation of 1944 when the Russians kept a couple of stricken B29's to reverse engineer and this start their own bomber industry. The US would react badly to something like this.

The irony is that Russia's Tupolev bombers have their ancestory in Boeing bombers.

[Red aRRow]

Yeah I thought he meant IL-76.
Anyways Majin....stop this nonsense now. Ain't no way this can be proved unless accompanied by a picture or a news report from a credible source. So everybody just take a chill pill.

[Majin-Vegeta]

:/ ok but im not lying..ill see wat i can find, and that pic has windows on the bottom of the face..they were on top.

[umair]

The IL-28 was known as the B-52 in PAF service btw :D
A pic
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/bomber/ru_monino_aircraft_il28_02.jpg

Is this the one Majin?[/img]

[general]

The picture of the B-52s are the ones that are used for attrition for spares.They are not dying out but are used as supply for spares.

[tatra]

They are being demolished as per treaty and this is done in a manner that can be verified (by russians) from space.