February 21, 2007 at 1:26 am
I’ve searched, and not found a nice succinct list of PGM’s the B-52 is cleared for, or might be upgraded for.
Can anyone help out?
Matt
By: hawkdriver05 - 22nd February 2007 at 00:02
I’v heard they carry JDAMS.
By: ELP - 21st February 2007 at 23:55
USAF got out of the JSOW program. The first B-52s a few years ago to have laser pods were a few reserve plans and they had LITENINGS… don’t know if Sniper replaced that. Sniper is going on to some B-1s now. B-52s with that setup have dropped PAVEWAYs. One thing to remember about Certain PGMs for the B-52… until a certain mod happens… Most of them can only be on the outside pylons. There was word that they were going to go with wireless smart bomb racks for the bomb bay to save weight. I haven’t followed the program in over a year so I don’t know.
By: Lightndattic - 21st February 2007 at 13:39
Now that BUFFs are starting to get Sniper pods, you can add LGB’s to that somewhat dated list.
By: aurcov - 21st February 2007 at 05:47
That’s from: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-52.htm