BUFF will still be around after most of us are gone.
Why? They do what they were designed to do very, very well!
Since I’m only SLIGHTLY older than the BUFF, it will probably outlast ME!
But, the B-52’s have had many “facelifts”… and all I have is a valve and exhaust job. Oh, and a new vision system. BUFF has me beat, though…
That pic was taken 20 seconds before the A10’s showed up and shot them all to pieces! 🙂
Just like the RuAF, that keeps the Tupolev-95 Bears (a Turboprop) as Missile Carriers, a Heavy “Bomber” has its uses. The fact that the USAF never moved ahead with Planes like the North American B-70, “Valkyrie”, and a dozen other Designs for real Supersonic Bombers, has lead to only Russia having a “modern” Strategic Bomber, the Tupolev-160 “White Swan”, a 1970’s-vintage, 300-Ton Machine that is Back in Production, after the remaining ones from the ‘cold war’ soviet union have all been Upgraded, with new Engines, Electronics, and Weapons – like the Hypersonic “Khintzal” Missiles, now in action in the Ukraine.
But we’ve got purple-haired trannies flying Drones, a Plastic Bomber Plane that can’t be left out in the Sun, nor Fly in the Rain, a “fighter jet” that costs $100+ BILLION for each one, with a Flight-to-Maintenance Hours Ratio ten times Higher than a Sopwith Camel… Yeah, this is the AF that will “Teach them russkies a Lesson”….
As a kid my elderly neighbor was a BUFF pilot. Tinker airbase had a squadron then, now just AWAC’s
BUFF will still be around after most of us are gone.
Why? They do what they were designed to do very, very well!
Since I’m only SLIGHTLY older than the BUFF, it will probably outlast ME!
But, the B-52’s have had many “facelifts”… and all I have is a valve and exhaust job. Oh, and a new vision system. BUFF has me beat, though…
That pic was taken 20 seconds before the A10’s showed up and shot them all to pieces! 🙂
Just like the RuAF, that keeps the Tupolev-95 Bears (a Turboprop) as Missile Carriers, a Heavy “Bomber” has its uses. The fact that the USAF never moved ahead with Planes like the North American B-70, “Valkyrie”, and a dozen other Designs for real Supersonic Bombers, has lead to only Russia having a “modern” Strategic Bomber, the Tupolev-160 “White Swan”, a 1970’s-vintage, 300-Ton Machine that is Back in Production, after the remaining ones from the ‘cold war’ soviet union have all been Upgraded, with new Engines, Electronics, and Weapons – like the Hypersonic “Khintzal” Missiles, now in action in the Ukraine.
But we’ve got purple-haired trannies flying Drones, a Plastic Bomber Plane that can’t be left out in the Sun, nor Fly in the Rain, a “fighter jet” that costs $100+ BILLION for each one, with a Flight-to-Maintenance Hours Ratio ten times Higher than a Sopwith Camel… Yeah, this is the AF that will “Teach them russkies a Lesson”….
As a kid my elderly neighbor was a BUFF pilot. Tinker airbase had a squadron then, now just AWAC’s