The nearly 60-year-old B-52 will be the workhorse of the Air Force's bomber fleet another 30 years at least, reinvigorated with upgrades to boost its range, power, sensors, and bomb-carrying capacity. Once complete, Air Force Global Strike Command's improvements to its 76 B-52s will provide the equivalent of an extra 22 bombers' worth of weapon-carrying capacity.
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