scrapping a b-52 (excerpt)

[@Legitcar117]

This is like watching someone being murdered right in front of you....😬

[@teamfg6963]

LegitGaming117 🔫😂🍺🌵💖1000

[@TrippyNoodles]

BUFF love. Hard to watch.

[@goprodiaries5943]

it was for the greater good: not being nuked in our sleep by russians.

[@Bluesky363]

My heart is full of pain when see this video.....

[@semco72057]

That is tough to watch an airplane you have worked on being totally destroyed and that is how I feel about the B-52 bombers since I worked on the D, G, and H models. I passed through Davis Monthan AFB, and knew that the old D models ended up there and the G models later ended up there also and was destroyed.

[@alexandermakrianis]

Those aircraft looked like they'd been sitting there a long time and had usable parts stripped from them. They most likely couldn't have been returned to flying condition anyway, but it is still sad to watch this. At least the parts that were removed are most likely being used to keep other B-52s flying.

[@Dommas1106]

These aircraft had to be destroyed due to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the USSR and the USA

[@liamarmstrong2142]

@@Dommas1106 They were old anyway

[@jandajanda2242]

Liam Armstrong No actually A b52 Was recovered and put in the flying condition from the boneyard a less than a year ago

[@liamarmstrong2142]

@@jandajanda2242 Yes but not any on this side of the yard, these were cut up as part of the salt agreement. Nothing on these aircraft is salvageable

[@NihilNominis]

This isn't being scrapped. It is a B-52G being destroyed in the AMARC boneyard in compliance with the START treaty. This was done by chopping the planes into five pieces and leaving them out in the open for the Russian satellites to photograph (trust, but verify).

[@Jedi2155]

Here's a 2020 image :( still there...rotting away.... cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/258059042092482561/699371936391626812/unknown.png

[@Comm0ut]

The metal is scrapped and recycled afterwards so it's both.

[@brittany3039]

This is a winged titan

[@TallThoma5]

Stop the plane abuse. Donate now

[@youtert]

In the aaaaaaaarms ooofff the aaaaaangels....

[@itsjosh9076]

It's so sad.

[@we-ls3fw]

this makes me cry every time

[@chriswesley2989]

what a fun day at the office

[@fawnlliebowitz1772]

Mighty BUFF RIP, even I possibly the worlds greatest structural mechanic past or present can't even fix you. )o:

[@27thCrown]

Can`t watch this anymore :(

[@teamfg6963]

Gama O. 👤🍭

[@curtphillips140]

VERY SAD to see. These machines had served their country proudly and well, and protected the country for many years! But *IF* the treaty brought the country a little further away from a nuclear war without making our country less secure (a much debatable point), they are still serving the country well even in their destruction!

[@monsterx3055]

Cool

[@Adhansstuff]

WAIT!!! Can I have it?

[@shevanel92]

Today I learned that guillotines for aircraft exist

[@NihilNominis]

As far as I know, all active B-52Gs were destroyed at this time in compliance with the treaty. At any rate, none remain in active service.

[@the_1_who_sails_the_seasto367]

There is 72 active currently

[@ingoweipert7713]

I Live near HVA Peenemünde and every Time i See a Aggregat 4 Fly to London i pray: God shave the Queen

[@BirdWhisperer46]

You'll be sorry.

[@starshock01]

those things would make awesome houses...you could drive your car in one and leave it their to do work on it etc, and live in another one, or maybe make a base out of it

[@janebook294]

sad Goddamn sight to see

[@DimitriKhalezov]

A nice video to switch on one's brains to to imagine what would happen to those aluminum passenger planes that sliced into the WTC Twin Towers as if the planes were made of steel, but the Towers - from butter...

[@Raptorman0909]

Kinetic energy is a bitch -- you should look into it!

[@NikitasGuitars]

Derp

[@lbgstzockt8493]

Tell me you failed middle school physics without telling me you failed middle school physics

[@Comm0ut]

Have a friend throw an empty beer can at your face. Note results. Then have friend use a full beer can. Compare and contrast results.

[@norellpolk1626]

This is a travesty destroying a great plane like this

[@tigeriausf.e5180]

I hate this video. Such a powerful plane being given an uneventful death

[@juliocalazans]

😟

[@christopherphillipskeates290]

new york after an asteroid attack revelation 18 .. yukyuk ..its going to happen a giant guilotene ..skeatesy the return of christ

[@koko1914]

this is great, really glad to see those horrible cold war weapons destroyed on both sides

[@jimcrawford9773]

Idiot .

[@koko1914]

Jim Crawford and im an idiot because....?

[@koko1914]

***** its an ugly piece of shit, made to bring terror, mass destruction and death. the best thing that could be done with it is to be cut up and turned into beer cans. (maybe save a few to put into museums to showcase the insanity during the cold war era, from both sides of course)

[@koko1914]

***** first of all, i said that both sides did some insane and very dangerous things during that time frame, not just america. secondly, the ugly piece of shit has come much closer to destroying parts of america and its allies than it did to defending it - look up the goldsboro incident, the one over spain and greenland during the 60s. and thirdly it is an offensive weapon, not defensive, so there goes your "defend our country" argument. there is no place in the world for shit like that, if they all get destroyed (again i am speaking of all sides, not just america) the world would be a better place

[@AlonePopTart]

It's just a fucking airplane, it's the payload of the plane that is a weapon.

[@Awesomelord101]

there cutting the tails off because the ffa dos not consider it a aircraft without the tail

[@timbrelman]

Makes me sick to see such a waist of a fine aircraft. Politics we are loosing are strength as a nation in whole.

[@Comm0ut]

People without aviation expertise should not permit themselves opinions, especially illiterates ('loosing", "waist"). Legacy fleets are a burden for the USAF to support no matter how many of the drooling masses think they're cool. Maintaining more squadrons than missions require bleeds resources from modernization and meat in cockpits is a burden not a blessing.

[@mchuryakov]

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