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    Band, Hard Shell, and QuickClip. B-52G The B-52G was proposed to extend the B-52's service life during delays in the B-58 Hustler program. At first, a...
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    Boeing B-52G-105-BW Stratofortress near Stone Lake: 9 killed". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Retrieved 1 November 2022. "Crash of a Boeing B-52G-85-BW...
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    The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash, also called the Palomares incident, occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic...
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    Operation Senior Surprise, also known as Secret Squirrel, was a long range B-52G Stratofortress cruise missile strike against Iraqi targets that initiated...
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    1991. Composed of B-52G aircraft and personnel from the 69th and 524th Bombardment Squadrons (August 1990 – March 1991) Additional B-52G aircraft and personnel...
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    research operations with NASA. B-52G 59-2596 2596 Darwin's Pride - Darwin Aviation Museum in Winnellie, Northern Territory. B-52D 55-0105 - War Memorial of...
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    "need to know" about specific operational points. On 21 January 1968, a B-52G Stratofortress, serial number 58-0188, with the callsign "HOBO 28" from...
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    significantly different EW capabilities; the B-52G carried fewer jammers and put out appreciably less power than the B-52Ds but had more efficient engines and...
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    B-52 at the Museum. A plaque at the lake states that the aircraft was a B-52G shot down by a Surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired by the 72nd Battalion...
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    of B-52H and B-52G Stratofortresses, B-1 Lancers, and the newly commissioned B-2 Spirits. By 1990, the United States possessed 94 B-52H bombers, 96 B-1...
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    could have detonated. Accident scene Seymour Johnson AFB The aircraft, a B-52G, was based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, and part of the...
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    occurred between a B-52G, 58-0256, and a KC-135A, 61-0273, flying out of Moron AB, Spain while flying over Palomares, Spain. The B-52G was on an Operation...
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    Sukhoi Su-27 (redirect from Flanker B)
    role was long range air defence against American SAC Rockwell B-1B Lancer and Boeing B-52G and H Stratofortress bombers, protecting the Soviet coast from...
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    United States. SAC aircraft used during the Vietnam War included B-52D, B-52F, B-52G, KC-135A, KC-135Q, various versions of the RC-135, SR-71, U-2, and...
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    crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard. Of the four Mk28 type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried, three were...
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    located in Ashland, Nebraska. Two Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses have carried the name Memphis Belle. B-52G (AF Ser. No. 59-2594) was named Memphis Belle...
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    Wassaw Sound. On 17 January 1966, a fatal collision occurred between a B-52G and a KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain. The conventional explosives...
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  • the previous night. 11 April A United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (B-52G-95-BW) registration number 58-0161, departed Robins Air Force...
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    B-52G began in the late 1980s, however the Gulf War of 1990–1991 resulted in a temporary delay in the inactivation of B-52G units. Wurtsmith-based B-52s...
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    crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three of the seven crew members aboard. Of the four Mk28 type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carried, three were...
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    1968, the population of Thule was down to 3,370. On 21 January 1968, a B-52G bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed just outside Thule – see below...
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    system. The company also considered other aircraft including the Boeing B-52G Stratofortress, Boeing 747, and DC-10, considering altitude and speed performance...
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    United States Air Force aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), a B-52G Stratofortress bomber and a KC-135A Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft...
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    Thunderchief, B-57 Canberra, F-111, F-5, A-1 Skyraider, A-4 Skyhawk and F-4 Phantom. The M117 series was used extensively during the Vietnam War, and B-52G Stratofortress...
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    until 1994, supporting national security objectives with mission-ready B-52G Stratofortresses, and KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The wing had the ability...
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  • replaced by Big Belly-modified B-52Ds.[citation needed] Later in the Vietnam War, the B-52G was also deployed with the B-52D. B-52Ds were also used from the...
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    About 340 bombs were built. It entered service aboard B-47 Stratojet, B-52G Stratofortress, and B-58 Hustler bomber aircraft in the mid-1960s. From 1968...
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    squadron's inactivation on 25 June 1965. To replace the B-47s, the Wing was assigned the Boeing B-52G Stratofortress bomber and received its first aircraft...
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    transitioned from B-52H to B-52G aircraft in 1983 adding the AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) in 1984. In December 1986, the last B-52G permanently...
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    1959 when Strategic Air Command (SAC) assigned the wing SAC's first Boeing B-52G Stratofortresses. The 72d Squadron had departed for Mather Air Force Base...
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