I dont know if this has any truth to it, but one of my favorite authors talks of a very.... enhanced B-52 which he describes as a flying battleship with all its gun, engine, body designs, upgrades.
It has a V shaped rear tail (two tails). 4 big engines instead of 8. and a SR-71 shaped nose.
I have heard rumors this is a real plane. Can anyone tell me if it exists?
2006-12-01 08:29:17 · 7 answers · asked by clomtancy 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The EB-52 Megafortress is a fictitious Bomber in most of the Dale Brown books. This aircraft is a variant of the B-52 Stratofortress, used by the U.S Air Force. The Megafortress first appears in Dale Brown's Flight of the Old Dog and is expanded and upgraded in all his later books. The Megafortress has all the latest technology (such as an advanced on-board computer and detailed HUD) and carries all the latest weapons, such as the AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM, Air-to-surface missiles, Anti-ship missiles, Anti-tank guided missiles and other advanced missiles such as plasma weapons. In later books, the eight engines of the B-52A-H are replaced by four larger and more powerful turbofans (incidentally, this is an upgrade that has been considered for the real-world B-52H fleet).
In Flight of the Old Dog, the aircraft is designated the B-52I. The EB-52 designation is first used in Sky Masters.
In the real world, the EB-52H, or B-52J is a planned upgrade to the USAF's current fleet of Stratofortresses, allowing them to act as "stand-off jammers," with jamming pods replacing the B-52's wing-mounted external fuel tanks.
http://www.megafortress.com/newsletter/m...
2006-12-01 08:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Flight of the Old Dog is a great book, but the plane is fictional. By the way, I thought the nose was from a Concord, not a SR-71, but it has been a while since I read it and I could be mistaken.
My father was in the Air Force and I had the opportunity to talk to pilots and others about the plane. The opinions I heard were that the different nose was not possible and the V tail would be unstable. However, these were just opinions so I don't know if there was any hard fact behind it, but being pilots, I would think they would know.
2006-12-01 08:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by Aegis of Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the Mega-Fortress in Dale Brown's novels.
Sorry to report, though, that no BUFF has ever been converted to such a super status. Great books, from an ex-SAC troop. Brown is one of my favorite authors.
Check out his web site...
http://www.megafortress.com/
2006-12-01 08:37:02 · answer #3 · answered by Frogface53 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-30 00:52:19 · answer #4 · answered by cutburth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not real but there was a american plane in ww2 that was the b29 superfortress and was the same type of plane that dropped the atomic bomb
2006-12-01 09:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry--- it doesn't exist
it's nothing but a work of fiction
2006-12-01 08:38:42 · answer #6 · answered by mcspic63 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is fictional.
2006-12-01 08:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by Alex S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋