At the critical moment of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States has sent its own B-52H bombers to the United Kingdom for deployment, and the B-52H nuclear bombers deployed by the United States have also opened the ADS-B response in a high-profile manner and gone to the airspace over Poland for a long time, and from a geographical point of view, the airspace where the American B-52H and bombers are located is located in the airspace around Kaliningrad. Russia has always had a large number of military deployments in the airspace of Kaliningrad, and Kaliningrad, as a "enclave" of Russia in Europe, has also become a region that NATO is eyeing.
On April 15, 2022, the U.S. Air Force's B-52 strategic bomber had just passed its "70th birthday" B-52 strategic bomber and had been flying for 70 years, but the aircraft had always been the main force of the U.S. Air Force's strategic bombing, which was also because the use cost of the B-52H strategic bomber was significantly lower than that of the B-1B bomber and the B-2A stealth bomber, although the penetration capability of the bomber was quite limited. But the B-52H strategic bomber can complete the launch of out-of-zone missiles, while the United States also tested the launch of hypersonic weapons for the B-52 bomber, which also means that the B-52 bomber's strike strength is still improving, of course, the United States has also realized that the performance of the B-52H strategic bomber has begun to lag behind, in order to be able to keep the aircraft in service until 2050, the United States will also carry out a number of upgrades to the B-52H strategic bomber in the coming period.
The B-52H bomber, which is a product of the same period as the Chinese bomber 6 bomber, will also face the replacement of aero engines in the future, and according to public information, the United States has chosen the same CF34 turbofan engine as The Chinese domestic regional airliner ARJ21 for the B-52H strategic bomber, and the replacement of the engine will make the mounting capacity of the B-52H bomber more powerful, and the fuel economy will be greatly improved. This means that the B-52H bomber will complete a longer-range flight mission under the premise of refueling the same fuel, just after the "70th birthday" of the B-52H strategic bomber in the United States, and now the bad news is coming from the US mainland, and the B-52H bomber base has exploded.
According to a news reported on the Us Fox News website on April 19, The Bacchusdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, usa, had a natural gas explosion on the morning of April 19, local time, and caused a small fire, the accident also led to the injury of a number of US soldiers, fortunately, the scale of the natural gas explosion is not large, and did not affect the B-52H strategic bomber, because the production line of the B-52H strategic bomber has been completely shut down. Therefore, once the United States has the loss of this type of aircraft, it can only find some aircraft with better aircraft from the aircraft graveyard to restore performance, and then restore it to an airworthy state.
In recent years, bizarre accidents within the US military are constantly occurring, it is understood that before the gas explosion at Buxdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, the US Navy's USS George Washington nuclear-powered aircraft carrier had a number of soldiers die consecutively, and this aircraft carrier has seen three soldiers die in less than a week, the cause of death of these soldiers has not yet been determined, and it is not excluded that criminal cases have emerged. Text/Iris