First flown in 1952 and introduced as the standard strategic bomber of the United States Air Force in 1955, the B52 Stratofortress proudly holds the title of the oldest military aircraft in service. While decades of attrition, doctrinal changes, budget cuts and the introduction of newer, more advanced aircraft have reduced the fleet of active B52s to little more than two hundred by the time America entered the Third World War, the 'Big, Ugly, Fat Fucker' still serves as the blunt, hard-hitting sledgehammer in support of many US ground operations and strategic bombing campaigns. Its payload bay can carry up to 31.500kg worth of bombs in various shapes and sizes which are generally more than enough to eradicate anything from an armoured battalion to an entire industrial district in a single run.
The Repair Drone has been procured in an effort to reduce the costly logistical footprint of America's mechanised engineering units. Aside from maintaining other drones and ground vehicles in the field, it is also equipped with a set of sensors and tools for explosive ordnance disposal.
And as always i would like to remind all of you out there that there will be an other stream on this Sunday (April 6th):
(Also for those who noticed the stream does not start an hour earlier its just that GMT does not change to the summer time)
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Seeing the bomber reminds me of something I've been wondering; while the default bombing run doesn't allow you to choose the direction it comes from like the Typhoon's tear gas strike, have the team considered implementing such a thing for the B-52? It would make a nice change to just selecting a circle and only seeing a few targets get hit.
Implementing it in the same way as the Tear Gas strike would have negative side-effects such as the bomber becoming untargetable and not being able to be called into the fog.
Theres always the Option of implementing it as in CWC :P
Can it be shot down anyway before it makes the run? Everytime I've used a bomber or a mine-dropping plane in either ROTR or vanilla ZH the plane seems to be invulnerable until after its run, and even then are only rarely shot down.
also it will be op if it would come out from behind the enemy base,and skip all of their base defences.
I couldn't watch today's stream, so will you continue to put them on youtube? The last one hasn't been uploaded there yet... :(
did you try this
Twitch.tv
Yeah, but unfortunately Twitch doesn't work that well with replays on my computer, thanks anyway.
I've noticed one mistake in ECA: shortcut to build Solaris Relay is "o", and "o" is also shortcut for another european building that produces money. Just fix that :)
That B52 will give an American a boner.
Nice work, Hunter.