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Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson AZ.
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3026858" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>A lot of the bombers are there due to SALT and START requirements. Look at the B52's with their tails, wings, and even fuselages visibly broken. That's so the Soviets could see from satellite reconnaissance that we'd destroyed them beyond the capability of repair, thus reducing our nuclear arsenal.</p><p></p><p>As to the others, they're largely early-block equipment that would be more expensive to repair and upgrade than to replace. Look at the capabilities of the first run of any program, compared to the latest one, and they're practically a new model. Consider that the modifications would be performed on an airframe with potentially thousands of hours (and aluminum, unlike steel, experiences fatigue no matter how minor the stress; steel has an "elastic limit" below which stress isn't permanently fatiguing), and even if you could upgrade it, its life would be so short as to not be worthwhile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3026858, member: 13624"] A lot of the bombers are there due to SALT and START requirements. Look at the B52's with their tails, wings, and even fuselages visibly broken. That's so the Soviets could see from satellite reconnaissance that we'd destroyed them beyond the capability of repair, thus reducing our nuclear arsenal. As to the others, they're largely early-block equipment that would be more expensive to repair and upgrade than to replace. Look at the capabilities of the first run of any program, compared to the latest one, and they're practically a new model. Consider that the modifications would be performed on an airframe with potentially thousands of hours (and aluminum, unlike steel, experiences fatigue no matter how minor the stress; steel has an "elastic limit" below which stress isn't permanently fatiguing), and even if you could upgrade it, its life would be so short as to not be worthwhile. [/QUOTE]
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