Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
type: Thing
label: B-52 Stratofortress
label: B-52同溫層堡壘戰略轟炸機 @zh
label: 보잉 B-52 스트래토포트리스 @ko
label: بي-52 ستراتوفورتريس @ar
label: B-52 (航空機) @ja
label: Boeing B-52 @de
subject: Category:Aircraft first flown in 1952
subject: Category:Strategic bombers
subject: Category:High-wing aircraft
subject: Category:Eight-engined jet aircraft
subject: Category:Aircraft with retractable quad landing gear
subject: Category:Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
subject: Category:1950s United States bomber aircraft
subject: Category:Boeing aircraft
length ft: 159
cruise speed kts: 442
eng1 name: Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-3/103
max takeoff weight lb: 488000
in service: 1955
1pp: 217
1pp: 290
1pp: 69
ferry range mi: 10145
m: 586
max takeoff weight kg: 221323
weight: 0.31
avionics: * Electro-optical viewing system that uses platinum silicide forward looking infrared and high resolution low-light-level television sensors * ADR-8 chaff rocket * LITENING Advanced Targeting System * Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod * IBM AP-101 computer * AN/ALE-20 – Infrared flare dispenser * AN/ALE-24 – chaff dispenser * AN/ALQ-122 – Motorola multiple false target generator * AN/ALQ-153 – Northrop Grumman tail missile approach warning system * AN/ALQ-155 – Northrop Grumman jammer power management system * AN/ALQ-172 – ITT Inc. electronic countermeasures system * AN/ALR-20A – Radar warning system * AN/ALR-46 – Northrop Grumman digital radar warning receiver * AN/ALT-32 – Noise jammer
empty weight kg: 83250
climb rate ms: 31.85
gross weight kg: 120000
similar aircraft: *V Force bombers: **Avro Vulcan **Handley Page Victor **Vickers Valiant *Convair YB-60 *Myasishchev M-4 *Tupolev Tu-95
length in: 4
bombs: Approximately mixed ordnance; bombs, mines, missiles, in various configurations.
bot: InternetArchiveBot
alt: Aerial top/side view of gray B-52H flying over Texas
alt: 3
image: GVG B-52 Evolution 2.png
image: Boeing B-52H Stratofortress.png
image: Boeing B-52D Stratofortress 3-view line drawing.png
image: GVG B-52 Evolution 1.png
image: Boeing B-52G Stratofortress Cutaway from FlightGlobal
align: right
total width: 500
width: 250
width: 25.0
manufacturers: Boeing
ref: Knaack, USAF fact sheet, Quest for Performance
fix attempted: yes
1a: Lake
1a: Tagg
1a: Gunston
1a: Jenkins
1a: Miller
1a: Knaack
1a: Dick
1a: Patterson
1p: 778
1p: 213
1p: 187
1p: 101
1p: 87
1p: 91
1p: 21
1p: 30
1y: 2006
1y: 2004
1y: 2003
1y: 2001
1y: 1988
1y: 1985
1y: 1999
1y: 1957
2a: Rogers
2a: Spick
2a: Tagg
2a: Lake
2a: Trimble
2a: Knaack