Serious Bankrupted USAF recycle 55 yr old scrapped B52 bomber

[taksinloong]

Because one B-52 crashed, so they pull another from graveyard out to recycle for duty!

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B-52 Escapes 'The Boneyard'
2016-10-04 16:16
B-52 Escapes 'The Boneyard'

A 55-year-old B-52 Stratofortress that had been mothballed has been returned to service.

The plane had formerly been consigned to 'the boneyard', otherwise known as the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, a repository for aging aircraft at Davis Monthan Air Force Base.

More: 'Inside The Boneyard'

But in this instance, this particular B-52, called 'Ghost Rider' and numbered 61-007, was given a 19-month refurbishment and returned to service.


'Ghost Rider' takes off for Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The plane took 45,000 hours to restore

According to Janes.com, the US Air Force (USAF) recalled 'Ghost Rider' from retirement because another B-52 was seriously damaged and the USAF wanted to replace it, keeping its 76-plane B-52H fleet at full force.

Another B-52 has since been destroyed on Guam in an accident, though it isn't clear yet if this too will be replaced.

The USAF used to manage a 744-plane B-52 fleet, but the number was reduced in line with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), that was signed with Russia in 1991.

More: 'US Deploys B-52 Heavy Bombers To Britain'
More: 'Mammoth B-52 Stratofortress Joins Fight Against Daesh'

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[taksinloong]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...st-rider-reenters-active-service-at-minot-afb


Resurrected B-52H ‘Ghost Rider’
Reenters Active Service At Minot AFB
“A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky for he saw the riders comin hard... Yippie I aye ye ye ghost riders in the sky”

BY TYLER ROGOWAY
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
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It took 19 months to turn 55 year old B-52H 61-007 “Ghost Rider” from a dusty rattlesnake shade in the Arizona desert a fully mission capable aircraft, delivered to the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB in North Dakota.

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Last time I wrote about the resurrected Stratofortress was back in February of 2015, after it had been pulled out of Type 1000 storage at Davis Monthan AFB’s boneyard and ferried to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. At Barksdale, Ghost Rider had systems from a partially burned B-52H transferred to it. The bomber was then flown to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma for a total depot-level refurbishment.

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Ghost Rider, stripped of her decades old faded paint. It is amazing how good these jets still look more than half a century after they were built.
It took a whopping 45,000 man-hours to get the jet fully operational, and the aircraft needed an additional 7,000 hours of work compared with a normal B-52H’s depot-level maintenance. This was due to the fact that the jet had been sitting stagnant for so long, and that Ghost Rider's systems needed to be upgraded so they would be on par with other B-52Hs in the fleet. Tinker’s portion of the $13M project was spread over 272 days.




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Ghost Rider gets much needed TLC in depot at Tinker AFB.
In a USAF press release, Charles “Chuck” Alley, director of Tinker’s 565th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, described how stubborn the jet was during its flight testing, stating:

“I told people during test flight that because the aircraft sat in the desert so long, we’re knocking all the ghosts out of it. It seemed like every time it came back it had two or three different things wrong with it.”


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45,000 man hours went into refurbishing Ghost Rider and a long list of units and commands were involved with making it happen.
Even with all the additional work, the jet will be delivered 90 days earlier than planned, an amazing feat considering all the work and challenges that were involved. This was the first time a B-52H has been pulled out of storage and returned to the fleet. 12 other examples remain in type 1000 storage at Davis Monthan AFB, and it looks like the same units and commands that helped resurrected Ghost Rider will be doing it all over again, following the recent loss of a B-52H during takeoff from Andersen AFB, in Guam.


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76 B-52Hs are mandated to fill the ranks of USAF’s bomber fleet and they make up the vast majority of America’s strategic bomber leg of the nuclear triad (20 B-2s make up the rest). In the last decade and a half they have also been hard at working taking on Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and now ISIS. B-52s are now receiving major upgrades and are slated to stay in the USAF inventory until at least the 2040s, but it is quite likely they will remain in service longer than that in one form or another.

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[taksinloong]

PAP better pull LKY out from hell to recycle, his fainted son Tak Boleh Tahan already.


USAF using Karung Guni B-52 SGP recycle Ghost LKY.

 

[Papsmearer]

This is fantastic news to see Ghost Rider back in service. It will serve for another 20 years after this It can carry 70,000lbs of bombs over 12000 km. No other plane can do that. Our first batch of RSAF A-4 Skyhawks was also bought from the same AMARC boneyard in Arizona. Its an amazing place.

 

[fupikee]

PAP better pull LKY out from hell to recycle, his fainted son Tak Boleh Tahan already.


USAF using Karung Guni B-52 SGP recycle Ghost LKY.

In the less than 8 years Blackie o mama spent more money than all of the former presidents of the usa, COMBINED, ballooning the uuuu ass debt to over 20 trillion dollars!!!! Much of the money of course went towards defence and presumably funding the so many wars that this blackie started, initiated or intensified - Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria....etc.

But yet, none went towards the upgrading of the aged uuuuu ass strategic air bombing capability .......????? We are not talking hundreds of BILLIONS....we are talking about over TEN TRILLION UUUU ASSS DOLLARS IN LESS THAN EIGHT YEARS !!!!......W T F????? where did all the money go to?????

MASOK, MASOK, MASOK.....into blackie pockets????? :*:

You decide who is now the richest family on earth and which is which.....??? :(:(

 

[eatshitndie]

the boneyard. those that are broken up (bottom left) are not coming back into service.

 

[Reddog]

The USA debt is now over US$19,500,000,000,000.00. The bubble will burst and all USA allies will be destroyed together. Happening soon. Sit back with pop corn and enjoy.

 

[HTOLAS]

Wow! You just said what Trump really wanted to say.

In the less than 8 years Blackie o mama spent more money than all of the former presidents of the usa, COMBINED, ballooning the uuuu ass debt to over 20 trillion dollars!!!! Much of the money of course went towards defence and presumably funding the so many wars that this blackie started, initiated or intensified - Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria....etc.

But yet, none went towards the upgrading of the aged uuuuu ass strategic air bombing capability .......????? We are not talking hundreds of BILLIONS....we are talking about over TEN TRILLION UUUU ASSS DOLLARS IN LESS THAN EIGHT YEARS !!!!......W T F????? where did all the money go to?????

MASOK, MASOK, MASOK.....into blackie pockets????? :*:

You decide who is now the richest family on earth and which is which.....??? :(:(

 

[war is best form of peace]

Putin had re-started a whole new fleet production for advanced bomber TU-160 and Beggar Americans recycle Grave Yard Junks of 55 years old which is Pre-Vietnam-War Era junks.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/russias-supersonic-tu-160-bomber-back-should-america-worry-12787

Russia's Supersonic Tu-160 Bomber Is Back: Should America Worry?

Russia is going to begin production of the Tu-160, a Soviet-era bomber known as the “Blackjack.” How should America respond?
Tom Nichols

May 2, 2015
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Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu announced recently that Russia is going to begin production of the Tu-160, a Soviet-era bomber known as the “Blackjack.” The Tu-160 is a nuclear platform, basically something like the Soviet version of an American B-1 bomber: a big, heavy, swing-wing bomber meant to deliver nuclear weapons at long distances. The Soviets built about thirty-five of them in the 1980s, of which only fifteen remain in service.

So what does this mean to the strategic balance between the United States and the Russian Federation in 2015? In reality, it means absolutely nothing in military terms. As a political signal, however, Shoigu’s announcement is just the latest in a series of provocations. No American response is required and none would matter.

The Blackjack, assuming the Russians even manage to build any more of them, is a perfectly capable nuclear bomber that, in time of war, would fold back its swan-like wings and dart toward its targets at top speed. Once in range, it would launch cruise missiles that would make the last part of their journey low and slow under enemy radar. This is pretty much what all bombers would do in a nuclear war. (The one major advantage of the American B-2 is that it could penetrate farther into enemy airspace with less chance of detection.)

(Recommended: America's 5 Most Lethal Weapons of War)

To worry about the extra capability of additional Blackjacks, however, requires believing that nuclear bombers matter at all in 2015. During the Cold War, when a “triad” of land, air and sea weapons were the guarantee against a massive surprise attack, both sides invested in various tripartite combinations of ICBMs, sea-launched weapons and bombers. In a massive first-strike, at least some of these weapons would survive and destroy the aggressor, which is why no one could contemplate doing it. (The Soviets likely did not contemplate it very seriously in any case. There’s an interesting declassified CIA report from 1973 you can read here.)

Today, no one seriously worries that the Russians or the Americans will, or can, execute a disabling first strike against the other. A “BOOB,” or “Bolt-Out-Of-the-Blue,” is neither politically likely, nor militarily feasible. The days when command and control, satellites and even strategic delivery systems themselves were all far more shaky are long gone. The ideological competition between two global systems, in which one would seek to destroy the other as rapidly as possible, is also over.

Moreover, the sheer number of strategic weapons isn’t up to the job. In 1981, the United States and the Soviet Union fielded a total of nearly 50,000 weapons against each other. Strategic targets, including opposing nuclear forces, numbered in the thousands. Today, in accordance with the New START treaty, Russia and America will only deploy 1550 warheads each. (Coincidentally, this week marks the fourth anniversary of New START.) Even if both sides were committed to a first strike, there aren’t enough weapons to do it: 1550 means 1550, and it doesn’t matter what platform—bomber, ICBM or submarine—is carrying them.

(Recommended: 5 Russian Weapons of War America Should Fear)

So why are the Russians even bothering to do this?

For starters, not everything is about us. The Russians have a huge nuclear infrastructure, and a military obsessed with symbols of nuclear power. Building more nuclear toys makes everyone happy: Russia’s nuclear military-industrial complex gets jobs and money, the military gets its nuclear security blanket, and Russian leaders like Shoigu and President Vladimir Putin get to thump their chests about holding back the nuclear savagery of Barack Obama. Outside of Russia, no one except nuclear wonks like me even know what a Tu-160 is, but Russians know of it and many are likely proud of it.

(Recommended: The Russian Army's 5 Most Powerful Weapons of War)

The part that is about us is more disturbing. The Russians, and Putin in particular, have decided to forego any further pretense of accepting the outcome of the Cold War. Some foreign-policy realists lay Putin’s aggressiveness at NATO’s door, and rightly point out that NATO expansion needlessly handed Russian nationalists a cause. But Putin, it should now be obvious, was never going to accept the Soviet loss. His feints at cooperation were unsustainable, and his Soviet-era nostalgia for the days of the USSR has reasserted itself with a vengeance. If Putin can’t get along with a U.S. president as passive and accommodating as Barack Obama, he can’t get along with anyone.

That’s why the United States has no play to make here, other than to remind the Russians of two things.
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[frenchbriefs]

is the US starting a antique roadshow?45,000 hours to restore a piece of junk.in this day and age of icbms,quantum satelittes and s500 missiles why do we need the B52 bomber again?

 

[war is best form of peace]

is the US starting a antique roadshow?45,000 hours to restore a piece of junk.in this day and age of icbms,quantum satelittes and s500 missiles why do we need the B52 bomber again?

American beggars are living in stone age!

Remember the whistle-blower exposed USAF ICBM base still depending on stone age FLOPPY DISKETTE data storage to operate their nuke ICBM!

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/

The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program

By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 1241 GMT (2041 HKT) May 26, 2016
U.S. nuclear program runs on floppy disks
U.S. nuclear program runs on floppy disks

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2004 file photo, an obsolete 8 and 1-half inch floppy disc is held in London. Congressional investigators say the government spends about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging computer systems. That includes platforms more than 50 years old in such vital areas as nuclear weapons and Social Security. One still uses floppy disks. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, File)
U.S. nuclear program runs on floppy disks

(CNN)Want to launch a nuclear missile? You'll need a floppy disk.
That's according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using 1970s-era computing systems that require "eight-inch floppy disks."
Gadgets that have gone the way of the dinosaurs
Photos: Gadget graveyard
Eight-inch floppy discs became commercially available in the 1970s. They allowed up to 1.2 megabytes of storage capacity. Today, a flash drive can hold up to 1 terabyte and comes in all sorts of practical novelty designs.
Long before there was Instagram, Polaroid was king. The Polaroid celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2012. But by then most of us had no more need to ever shake a Polaroid picture again. Not entirely resurrected, Polaroids are retro-cool and often pop up at weddings and other celebrations.
CDs and Discmans may have fallen out of favor in the iTunes world, but creative minds always find new uses for the reflective music carriers.
People slapped these suckers on their hips, feeling important whenever they beeped or vibrated. Then they'd frantically have to find a few coins to use a payphone. The RIM 850 (before it was called BlackBerry) pager could send messages and emails but never nailed the art of the selfie.
The pocket PC and Palm Pilot brought your calendars, addresses, contacts and a calculator into one handy dandy tool instead of hand-scrawled notebooks. Downsides apart from the original green screen? They couldn't make calls. Worse than that, the pen/pencil/stylus/thingy would always vanish.
The clunky plastic cassettes would sometimes tangle in the machine and, over time, stretch to produce warped purple colors on the TV. But boy, did we love VCRs and video nights. And boy, did we hate programming them.
The Walkman gave a valid excuse to shut out parents, oncoming traffic and most forms of social interaction. Various models included a waterproof Walkman, graphic equalizer, LCD radio screens, Mega Bass and, in original versions, two headphone jacks. The greatest invention since the Walkman -- and possibly sliced bread -- remains auto-reverse, saving users the hassle of having to eject and flip the cassette over.
The MiniDisc was something of a hybrid of small CD and plastic cassette. Journos loved them, particularly if you worked in radio as editing was a breeze. These durable gadgets took up little space and were anti-skip, unlike (pre-memory) CD players. Per the original Walkman, it was a Sony product. The company laid the MD to rest earlier this year.
Stalwarts of the LaserDisc player maintain the format offered higher-quality video and audio than the videocassette. But then the DVD came along.
Atari brought the first in-home console to market during the 1970s with the addictive "Pong" and "Centipede." But Atari went from high score to game over, when it filed for bankruptcy in January this year. The rise of gaming on PCs and mobile devices has impacted the console videogame industry.
floppy disc diskPolaroidCD on a bikeym.rim.850.pagerPocket PCVHS playersony walkmanminidisc playerlaserdiscAtari console
Such disks were already becoming obsolete by the end of that decade, being edged out by smaller, non-floppy 3.5 to 5.25-inch disks, before being almost completely replaced by the CD in the late 90s.

Except in Washington that is. The GAO report says that U.S. government departments spend upwards of $60 billion a year on operating and maintaining out-of-date technologies.
That's three times the investment on modern IT systems.
Obsolete
Insanely priced gadgets from the '80s
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Insanely priced gadgets from the '80s 01:12
The report says the Pentagon is planning to replace its floppy systems -- which currently coordinate intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft -- by the end of 2017.
Other departments were also put on notice to update their systems. The U.S. Treasury for example, still depends on assembly language code "initially used in the 1950s."
Bringing government departments into the 21st century has proven difficult across the board.
Megan Smith, the current U.S. Chief Technology Officer, told the New York Times in 2015 of the "culture shock" experienced by the tech-savvy Obama campaign when they took control of a White House still dependent on floppy disks and Blackberrys.