There have been upgrades of various kinds, they probably don't fly with Garmins velcroed to the cockpit. Weapons load interfaces have surely seen considerable m

There have been upgrades of various kinds, they probably don't fly with Garmins velcroed to the cockpit. Weapons load interfaces have surely seen considerable modernization, they keep adapting to the very latest munitions (e.g. B52 from 60 years ago are what they use to test fire hypersonic missile prototypes). An engine update seems to finally be signed, to a variant of a design from the mid nineties. After several decades of studies and reviewing offers, operational 2028 to 2035 [0]. Wheels do seem to turn a little slower than they used to. What your memory probably brought up was the fact that all the 52s flying today are 52H, the final iteration following A through G with considerable changes between them. But the H is the one built 1961 through 1963, from today's perspective they are not really much younger than their mothballed/disarmed siblings. The reason I suspect that this is what you are talking about is that the same thing happened to me, I roughly knew about the A through H thing but placed the H much closer to the present and was very surprised on a recent read-up. [0] https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2789821/daf-awards-rolls-royce-b-52h-engine-contract/ https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2789821...