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blowsandyesterday at 8:33 PM3 repliesview on HN

Please do more research. They are most decidedly not “simply too old”. They have been “refreshed” many times over - from engines, to flight electronics, to targeting and comms systems, to airframe structures, to coffeemaker automation.


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hk1337yesterday at 8:41 PM

Sounds like a lot like ship of Theseus. The B-52 now is not not the same B-52 64 years ago.

jmalickiyesterday at 9:50 PM

The airframes still date closer in time to the Wright-Patterson Kitty Hawk flight than to today.

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Der_Einzigeyesterday at 8:43 PM

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