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The US Air Force just resurrected a 55-year-old B-52 from the 'boneyard'

Aircraft Boneyard Arizona
Aircraft Boneyard Arizona

(The US military's aviation boneyard.Airman Magazine/Flickr)

After about 45,000 man-hours spent restoring a 55-year-old airframe, the US Air Force welcomes its newest B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber, named "Ghost Rider," to the 5th Bomb Wing of the Air Force Global Strike Command, IHS Jane's reports.

The bomber underwent a significant 19-month restoration transitioning it from the so-called boneyard, where old US military planes are stored in retirement, to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota as a fully operational nuclear-capable bomber.

"Ghost Rider" will help compensate for losses to the B-52 fleet in recent years, like the B-52 that exploded on the runway in Guam in May.

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The US has increasingly turned to salvaging scrapped planes from the boneyard, as tight budgets and overworked air crews struggle to make do.

The US still operates 76 B-52 bombers, a type of aircraft first introduced in the mid-1950s. The B-52s serve as a very visible element of the US's nuclear-deterrence strategy.

b-52 ghost rider boneyard
b-52 ghost rider boneyard

(US Air Force)

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