The Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress bomber has arrived in the Middle East to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State, the U.S. Air Force announced.
The long-range heavy bomber aircraft flew from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and arrived Saturday at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, according to a press release from Lt. Col. Chris Karns, a spokesman for U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
The stationing of the B-52 in the Middle East marks the first time the service has based the aircraft in the region in a quarter century -- since Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in the early 1990s, the release states. The Stratofortress last flew operational missions during Operational Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan 2006, it states.
The deployment comes three months after the service pulled the B-1B Lancer bombers from the region for upgrades and repairs.
“The B-52 demonstrates our continued resolve to apply persistent pressure on Da'esh and defend the region in any future contingency,” Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, head of the command and the combined forces air component, said in the release, referring to another name for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
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8 comments:
To late Obama.
A day late and a dollar short as one might say. Obama has waited till they are dug in so deep that this is useless. Oh mighty commander and Chief of what?
Beautiful airplanes, certainly have been a work horse through the years, umm decades. Certainly and example of the statement, "they don't make them like that anymore."
They keep waking the sleeping giant. It's reminiscent of Saddam's "Mother of all wars."
Why bother to read the article and learn that they are replacing planes in need of service? Just make comments that show you can repeat words like parrot.
They may have arrived there but Obama won't let them be used. Just leave them there and Trump will use them.
Like Trump said,"We ARE NATO"
It's a sad time here in America. We publicize sending bombers to the Middle East for bombing campaign while we roll out the red carpet for ISIS refugees and our borders totally out of control. Does anyone else see the self destruction of America, back to high racial tension, absolute epidemic drug problems, and debt that eventually will bring us down but we still worry about everyone else's problems
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