B-52 Image Bank
The navigator stations use CRT displays and 386x-type processors. Interface to avionics architecture is based on the Mil-Std-1553B data bus specification.
Current Upgrade Activities
The current service life of the aircraft extends to 2040.
The B-52 is a typical representation of the misnomer of "legacy" system. While the B-52 exceeds 30 years of age, new modifications and mission capabilities are constantly updating the system. The following is a list of current B-52 modification programs:
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- TACAN Replacement System (TRS)
- Integrated Conventional Stores Management System (ICSMS)
- ARC-210/DAMA Secure Voice
- AGM-142 HAVENAP Missile Integration
- High Reliability Maintenance-Free
- Electronic Counter-Measures Improvement (ECMI)
- Off-Aircraft Pylon Tester (OAPT)
- Air Force
- Electro Viewing System - EVS 3-in-1 (EVS, STV, FLIR)
- Advanced Weapons Integration Program (JDAM, WCMD, JSOW, JASSM)
- Night Vision Imaging System Cockpit Compatible Lighting
- Night Vision Imaging System Compatible Ejection Seat Mod
- Standard Flight Loads Data Recorder (SFLDR)
- Avionics Midlife Improvement (AMI) (ACU, DTUC, and INS Replacement)
- ALR-20 System Replacement
- Fuel Temperature Monitoring System
- Panoramic Night Vision Goggles
- Advanced Infrared Expendables
- Advanced real Time Engine Health Monitoring System
- Closed
- Precision Targeting Radar
- TF-33 Engine Replacement
- Lethal Self Protection
- B-52 Cockpit Modernization
- KY-58 VINSON Secure Voice
- AVTR
- Additional Cabin Pressure Altimeter
- Enhanced Bomber
- Chaff and Flare Dispenser Upgrade
- Non 1760 Pylon Upgrade
The B-52 is undergoing a Conventional Enhancement Modification which allows it to carry MIL-STD 1760 weapons. The Advanced Weapons Integration (AWI) program supports the conventional enhancement of the B-52 through the addition of the Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD), Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM), Joint Stand-off Weapon (JSOW), and the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM). Limited Initial Operational Capability for the WCMD was achieved on the B-52 in December 1998, and LIOC for JDAM was achieved on the B-52 in December 1998.
The Air Force Mission Support System supports the Air Force movement of all mission planning to a common system. GPS TACAN Emulation provides support to the Congressionally-directed GPS-2000. Electronic Countermeasures Improvement supports a DESERT STORM identified deficiency. The B-61 Mod 11 program was added at the direction of the Nuclear Posture Review and Presidential Decision Directive-30.
The AGM-142 (or Have Nap as it is commonly called) and Harpoon missile systems were first installed and made operational on the B-52Gs in the mid-1980s. When the �G� models were retired, these capabilities were moved to the B-52H model. While Air Combat Command (ACC) was happy to retain these operational capabilities, they were limited in their ability to employ either Have Nap or Harpoon by the fact that only a limited number of B-52Hs could employ the missiles. In the early 1990s the B-52 Conventional Enhancement Modification (CEM) Integrated Product Team (IPT) began programs to make it possible for any B-52H to carry and launch either missile. At about the same time, the AGM-142 SPO began a second phase of their producibility enhancement program, PEPII for short, to upgrade the AGM-142 missiles to both enhance supportability and lower the missiles cost. As of 31 December 97 these programs provided ACC with the expanded and more flexible mission capability they desired.
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