The B-52H has an unrefueled range of 8,800 miles, and can deliver 70,000 pounds of nuclear or conventional ordnance, including bombs and missiles.
The United States dispatched one of its nuclear-capable, long-range bombers to Finland this week on a training mission aimed at reinforcing NATO's eastern flank against the threat from Russia.According to the Finnish Air Force, a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress trained with Finnish F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets over Finland on Tuesday. The bomber entered the Nordic country from the north and exited via the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
However, the training flight in the summer did not involve nuclear-capable bombers, according to the Barents Observer.According to Hans Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, 'nuclear-capable' means an aircraft is equipped to carry nuclear weapons, not that it is necessarily carrying them.
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