B-52 Stratofortress

The B-52 is a multi-engine, long-range aircraft capable of free-fall bomb delivery and air-to-ground missile launch missions that deliver either nuclear or conventional weapons. Carrying the largest nuclear payload of any U.S. strategic platform, the BUFF (the nickname that may be politely rendered as Big Ugly Fat Fellow) retains a secondary nuclear strike role, but its combat employment has been entirely with conventional weapons. Already long-lived, current projections...