B-52 Stratofortress
Country: 
United StatesManufacturer: Boeing
«B-52H»
The B-52 Stratofortress is a US long-range heavy bomber family first introduced in the 1950s. The B-52H remains the current production mark in service, with successive upgrades to navigation, communications and conventional weapons integration.
1955 is the family introduction, not the B-52H date. LRASM is omitted as an operational fit. The existing RGM-84 Harpoon page describes a surface-launched mark, so it is not linked as the air-launched AGM-84.
Illustration: B-52H Stratofortress
Community
Data trust
- Reliability
- Verified
- Sources
- B-52H StratofortressUS Air Force, Airman Magazine · Accessed
- B-52 LRASM integration programmeFlightGlobal · Accessed
- Last reviewed
Identity
- Designation
- B-52 Stratofortress
- Alias
- B-52H
- Manufacturer
- Boeing
- Country
- United States
- Category
- Bomber
- Figures refer to
- B-52H
Production & service
- Introduced
- 1955
- Status
- In service
- Units produced
- —
Specifications
- MTOW
- —
- Crew
- 5
- Armament
- —
- Sensors
- —
- Engines
- —
- Hardpoints
- —
- Empty weight
- —
- Max speed
- —
- Combat radius
- —
- Length / wingspan / height
- 48.5 m / 56.4 m / 12.4 m
- Service ceiling
- —
Historical profile
The B-52 family entered service in 1955; the H variant followed in 1961. Modernisation has extended the aircraft's service life and added weapons such as JASSM. LRASM integration remains a separate programme, not a baseline operational fit.