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B-52H Upgrades Face Supply Challenges

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025

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B-52H Upgrades Face Supply Challenges

Pictured is a cockpit of a B-52H with the 93rd Bomb Squadron at Barksdale AFB, La. before take-off on June 17. The pilot's and co-pilot's Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) displays are at the sides of the photo.

BARKSDALE AFB, La.--Announced by Boeing [BA] in 2009 and first fielded in 2014, the company's Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade for the B-52H has been to replace old displays and communications on the early 1960s bomber with such features as a moving map display in the cockpit and new displays at all crew stations, Link 16, and machine-to-machine beyond-line-of-sight tasking/re-targeting. Yet, the effort is incomplete. B-52Hs with the 20th Bomb Squadron here, for example, are to be the first…

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