The US basically stores hundreds of B-52 airframes out in the elements. Admittedly the worst those airframes see is the occasional haboob, aka sandstorm, or some torrential rain, but that’s only a few days a year.
Of course that is the boneyards in NM and AZ. The operational ones are kept in hangers at Air Force bases in the middle of the Continental US. I don’t know if those are climate controlled, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were.
Oh, right. The B-52 is the plane that the USSR was copying when they made the bombers that were just blown up.
Also storing them in a hanger wouldn’t matter to most of these drones since more often than not the hanger doors are left open, and even when closed they are typically made of sheet metal. So the Ukrainians would have just blown a hole in the sheet metal before driving the next drone into the bomber.
This operation was some serious Tom Clancy style sci-fi military intelligence porn come to life.
The US basically stores hundreds of B-52 airframes out in the elements. Admittedly the worst those airframes see is the occasional haboob, aka sandstorm, or some torrential rain, but that’s only a few days a year.
Of course that is the boneyards in NM and AZ. The operational ones are kept in hangers at Air Force bases in the middle of the Continental US. I don’t know if those are climate controlled, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were.
Oh, right. The B-52 is the plane that the USSR was copying when they made the bombers that were just blown up.
Also storing them in a hanger wouldn’t matter to most of these drones since more often than not the hanger doors are left open, and even when closed they are typically made of sheet metal. So the Ukrainians would have just blown a hole in the sheet metal before driving the next drone into the bomber.
This operation was some serious Tom Clancy style sci-fi military intelligence porn come to life.