B-52H MITO Scramble • One Piece Of The US Nuclear Threat

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @robertowarren7007
    @robertowarren7007 3 года назад +14

    I love the sound of them throttling up. And the moment when the wings bow up, and they lift off the ground is one of the most beautiful sights in Flight

  • @GM8101PHX
    @GM8101PHX 2 года назад +25

    I served with the 92d Security Police Squadron at Fairchild AFB, we had the B-52 and KC-135's on 15 minute ground alert fully loaded and fueled. Klaxons sounded at least once a week to test our readiness. We never failed!!!

    • @marciethomas5766
      @marciethomas5766 8 месяцев назад

      While I worked at NORTEL, we installed the phone system at Fairchild AFB. I left a few weeks before the B52 crashed. The B52 in front of the NCO club came from Travis AFB at one time.

    • @alexrebmann1253
      @alexrebmann1253 7 месяцев назад

      The Bud Holland crash?​@@marciethomas5766

    • @eriknervik9003
      @eriknervik9003 4 месяца назад

      What years were you at Fairchild? My father was in the same unit as a security policeman

  • @mikegarland7878
    @mikegarland7878 3 года назад +9

    Thanks for the post. I was in 91st Security Police Squadron at Minot from 78-80. This brings back lots of memories. Back then, we were still SAC with 5 Nuc. loaded Buffs and 5 KC 135s on 24 hour alert.

    • @1MahaDas
      @1MahaDas 11 месяцев назад

      What is a "buff?"

    • @Force05289
      @Force05289 10 месяцев назад

      @@1MahaDasa BUFF is a Big Ugly Flying Fuck. It’s a nick name for the B-52

    • @blueberrypie77
      @blueberrypie77 9 месяцев назад

      B-52, I believe. @@1MahaDas

    • @michaelwhalen2442
      @michaelwhalen2442 2 месяца назад

      Barksdale for the win!

  • @KludgeMaker
    @KludgeMaker 3 года назад +7

    I watched this exercise circa 1965 at the original Turner Field in Albany, GA.
    Sat on my bike and counted 62 of 'em going over me at about 1000 feet.

    • @mr.sir.
      @mr.sir. 10 месяцев назад

      Yes the good old days when we would waste taxes on good things, not send them over to some other morons proxies

  • @CabinInTheWoods570
    @CabinInTheWoods570 8 лет назад +23

    Awesome. Was in SAC in early 70's at Ellsworth AFB SD. Brings back memories.

    • @ronbennett6396
      @ronbennett6396 4 года назад +1

      Minot myself. 5th Bomb Wing, 5th OMS. KC 135A Crew Chief. '82 to '86.
      Water Wagons ! KIAI O KA LEWA !

    • @russvoight1167
      @russvoight1167 4 месяца назад

      Myself at Ellsworth AFB, August 1976 to December 1979

  • @SoundtheTrumpet2023
    @SoundtheTrumpet2023 4 года назад +3

    This video doesn’t catch the roaring, deep rumble at takeoff. Nothing like a SAC B-52 MITO done right. This brought back seriously beautiful memories of my time in SAC!!

    • @gregtennessee8249
      @gregtennessee8249 2 месяца назад

      Trump is a Bigmouth Blowhard Nazi Wannabe Dictator. January 6

  • @eckhal2
    @eckhal2 4 года назад +6

    Always awesome to see, especially on the flight line which I did in Feb 1968 during the TET airlift Iwas on from Dover AFB to Barksdale
    Airlifting 100+ Cobra Gunships and munitions to NAM around the clock. Was an avionics tech.🗽🇺🇸

  • @ronbennett6396
    @ronbennett6396 4 года назад +3

    Hey !! I served here, took part in many a MITO launch, flew on a few, to. KC 135A Tanker Crew Chief. KIAI O KA LEWA !

  • @ricardofreitasvieira1860
    @ricardofreitasvieira1860 5 лет назад +17

    Old machine, but, to this day, very powerful

    • @philipbrown8191
      @philipbrown8191 2 года назад

      Maybe Old But Very Graceful. Never Ask Lady Her Age

    • @Orca19904
      @Orca19904 4 месяца назад

      And she's going to get even better when they give her the new engines they're developing.

  • @charleswyman9316
    @charleswyman9316 4 года назад +2

    Was at Ellsworth from 57 to 59 we had 48 B52s in 3 Squardrens the 77th 717 and 718 good old days

  • @marciethomas5766
    @marciethomas5766 8 месяцев назад +1

    Some of the B52 were not from Minot AFB. They had LA on the tail, which is Barksdale AFB. A friend of mine was at Travis AFB while the 5BW was there. They had B52G there.

  • @markotrifunovski11
    @markotrifunovski11 8 лет назад +11

    One thing that i respect from the US Army and US Air Fore is this B-52 Stratofortress bomber.

    • @sskyking1
      @sskyking1 7 лет назад +4

      US Army has nothing to do with the B-52, it's strictly USAF.

    • @willausterman3104
      @willausterman3104 7 лет назад

      sskyking1 US Army started the program that produced this bomber just a couple of years before the Air Force split off.

    • @sskyking1
      @sskyking1 7 лет назад +5

      However, that program was all but scrapped and redesigned in 1948, after the creation of an independent Air Force and under Air Force leadership. It wasn't until 1948/9 that the ultimate and distinctive profile of the eventual B-52 appeared in the 464-49 model.

  • @bobbybabsonjr787
    @bobbybabsonjr787 5 лет назад +2

    Pulled several alerts at Minot from Ellsworth on an EC 135a 87-88.

    • @ElliottAS
      @ElliottAS 4 года назад

      Under the best commander in chief!

  • @bubbythecuck978
    @bubbythecuck978 8 лет назад +6

    Flame out of engine number 4 at 3:08?

    • @jacknifedbl
      @jacknifedbl 8 лет назад +1

      afterburn lol

    • @thehappyrussianderp0082
      @thehappyrussianderp0082 8 лет назад +1

      no it's not afterburn look at the other planes no fire..

    • @jacknifedbl
      @jacknifedbl 8 лет назад +2

      Anton Corre i was joking....

    • @GreXOG
      @GreXOG 8 лет назад +6

      Compressor stall , bird strike ?

  • @johnreynolds6291
    @johnreynolds6291 3 года назад

    That last B-52's Reaction time was on point

  • @JIM-tt3wp
    @JIM-tt3wp 6 лет назад +2

    It's odd to see a MITO without all the smoke! What was it about the H model that did not require water ejection? 379th BW 1968-1972 SSgt

    • @phugwad
      @phugwad 3 года назад +1

      The H model had the low bypass turbofan engines that put out much more thrust at low airspeed, ie takeoff and climb, so water injection wasn't necessary. But water I ejection wasn't used for every takeoff even in the models that had water injection. I flew G models and, depending on temperature and wind, we only used water injection when necessary. We always took off at max gross weight, so weight wasn't a variable for us but if thenplane was light it wouldn't require water injection.

    • @JIM-tt3wp
      @JIM-tt3wp 3 года назад +2

      @@phugwad Thank you for your very good answer, and also for your service to this country!

  • @1MahaDas
    @1MahaDas 2 года назад +4

    I was a kid during the Cold War, but I still remember the B-52s lined up row after row after row on the tarmac at March Air Force Base in Riverside CA. The Bombers are gone now and the Base has become a Reserve Base but it still boasts a national land and sea smuggling interdiction facility as well as a global media transmission system for our armed forces. But with the current administration's open boarder policies I have to wonder if our "interdictions" mean anything anymore?

    • @Алексей-ч7м9о
      @Алексей-ч7м9о 11 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂 Открытые границы это часть глобального размешивания белого населения. B-52 был шедевром инженерной мысли🎉

  • @Orca19904
    @Orca19904 4 месяца назад +1

    If this was a real-world scenario, there would be sirens blaring in the background and each of those bombers would be carrying several nuclear weapons, each of them several hundred times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

  • @fjmcm111
    @fjmcm111 5 лет назад +1

    Those H models are sure quiet and lot less smoke than the D model I worked on in 1966 to 1970 with Turbo Jet Engines, J57 water injection, than these Turbo Fans far better trust on the these engines.

  •  8 лет назад +15

    3:09: anyone noticed flame from the engine?

    • @MatthewHoag77
      @MatthewHoag77 7 лет назад +2

      You'd have to be blind to miss it.

    • @stanlloyd7030
      @stanlloyd7030 7 лет назад +1

      shotgun start.

    • @charlesberndt8230
      @charlesberndt8230 7 лет назад +1

      called a cart start lol been there sad to be there again

    • @quantomic1106
      @quantomic1106 6 лет назад +4

      Yup! Vtec kicked in yo!

    • @snidelywhiplash
      @snidelywhiplash 6 лет назад

      Hey man - I subscribed to you just to be a dick. OTOH, I think we know each other, so perhaps you might expect that. A Ξ

  • @phugwad
    @phugwad 3 года назад +1

    I noticed the flames shooting out of the engine on one of those planes, not a good thing. I would guess that engine needed replacement after that flight.

  • @daviddishon642
    @daviddishon642 3 года назад

    Did several ori’s while at Dyess 72to76 even did a hyd pack change on a red ball on the hammerhead

  • @BrianBriCurInTheOC
    @BrianBriCurInTheOC 7 лет назад +2

    I remember the old days when they had the older less powerful engines with water injection and they do an Elephant walk.... the last bird taking off was buffeted all over the place from all the unstable air he had to fly through!!!!

  • @thebigokie6.4_392
    @thebigokie6.4_392 6 лет назад +2

    The reaction to the sound of the claxon.

  • @flyham21
    @flyham21 8 лет назад +4

    Looks like the first man off had a rear undercart. problem?

    • @dapto234
      @dapto234 4 года назад

      Yes I noticed that also very slow to retract if it did at all.

  • @Jimmerca
    @Jimmerca 2 года назад

    This takes me back in time. Served in SAC 1971 two 1975. Minot North Dakota, and. Utapao Thailand.. aircraft, electrical repair man. ✈️

    • @Mr_Zimm
      @Mr_Zimm Месяц назад

      Thanks to SAC, nuclear war was avoided.

  • @ww5777
    @ww5777 7 лет назад +3

    these B52s would be double tapping an already nuked target , the minute man and trident missiles would have already hit

    • @Tustyshellback2010
      @Tustyshellback2010 4 года назад +1

      That's true, but missiles can't be recalled once their launched, but a bomber can be told to abort the mission. There could be negotiations going on while B-52s and B-2s are in the air. Its going to take them a while to get where they're going. Once they get there the bombers could loiter around, probably just outside the range of their own cruise missiles, the B-52s primary nuclear weapon is the ALCM AGM-86 which is an air launched cruise missile with a range of 1500 nm.

  • @joseosorio4682
    @joseosorio4682 Год назад +1

    El chiflido que suena de esos motores es muy agudo, pero a la vez es un rugir potente de esos maravillosos aviones militares. 😃👍

  • @kathyarmstrong8739
    @kathyarmstrong8739 8 лет назад +10

    my daughter was there loading as these are Barksdale B52's.

    • @MatthewHoag77
      @MatthewHoag77 7 лет назад +3

      It's a bit colder at Minot than balmy Barksdale, I'd imagine.

    • @pambb5743
      @pambb5743 4 года назад

      Kathy Armstrong ....I love having these beautiful old birds here at Barksdale! Much appreciation to your daughter!

    • @GM8101PHX
      @GM8101PHX 2 года назад

      That was Minot that the scramble was filmed from not Barksdale!

    • @denali9449
      @denali9449 3 месяца назад

      @@GM8101PHX Yes this scene is at Minot but at least half of the planes are from Barksdale. That big LA on the tail tells the story.

  • @WiliiamNoTell
    @WiliiamNoTell 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for sharing! And giving us the raw sound of A B52 instead of some lame ass music

  • @roguemodel
    @roguemodel 2 года назад

    Remember when they would do a MITO and water inject? That was powerful.

  • @Buzzbox3rd
    @Buzzbox3rd 8 лет назад

    I would like these aircraft fitted with an extra engine up on the top with the tail fin thing built into it , just to increase its speed even further . Would that work ?

    • @tris1452
      @tris1452 6 лет назад +1

      Probably not, as the airframe and all related aerodynamic properties were designed around 4/8 wing mounted engines, so it’d lead to a whole host of problems relating to structure and stability. That’s not even considering the wealth of cost associated with such a large modification that isn’t even necessary

    • @GM8101PHX
      @GM8101PHX 2 года назад +1

      @@tris1452 The tail assembly is not made to support an engine with it, the engine would rip the stabilizer off creating real problems, One B-52 H made it home with most of the horizontal stabilizer gone using the thrust of the hound dog missiles and the eight engines.

  • @Evan_Adams
    @Evan_Adams 8 лет назад +1

    I bet there were some frantic communications from people who's job it is to watch that base. I hope they got tracked and will be used for the upcoming cyber strike back.

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 6 лет назад

      considering that this was an exercise (by the fact that we're all still alive) the russians would've been informed that this was scheduled long before the exercise ever started.

  • @HNW00
    @HNW00 8 лет назад +3

    That lift tho

  • @rickkilimun5430
    @rickkilimun5430 6 лет назад +1

    "All Starmax and Starwolves... SCRAMBLE!!!!

  • @mehdi9933
    @mehdi9933 5 лет назад

    Why this exercise is performed what's the purpose ?

    • @DrForrester87
      @DrForrester87 4 года назад +3

      MITOs are designed to get the bombers off the ground at roughly 15 second intervals so you can get all of them up and out to nuke whoever affronts the US before their nukes hit the base. Like anything, you have to keep in practice to stay good at it.

  • @joelt2105
    @joelt2105 6 лет назад

    OUTSTANDING I was proud to wear the Blue!

  • @thehappyrussianderp0082
    @thehappyrussianderp0082 8 лет назад

    check out at 3:08 the engine starts on fire they didin't notice that?

  • @rawblow4512
    @rawblow4512 3 года назад +1

    If these beauties cant set loaded with nukes, what the purpose of MITO’s anymore?

    • @baseballguy2001
      @baseballguy2001 3 года назад +1

      Not positive, but I don't think they do them anymore. SAC is no more, and the MITO exercises went bye bye too.

    • @rawblow4512
      @rawblow4512 3 года назад +1

      baseballguy2001 ahh ok, i knew SAC was gone but i figured they still had the MITO exercises. Wonder how long it takes to get nukes loaded if needed?

    • @rawblow4512
      @rawblow4512 3 года назад +1

      baseballguy2001 we have a old SAC base in the state i live, B-47’s & 52’s were their and at our state fair park they had 2 of those bombers displayed in memory of once was, well they scrapped them and made a parking lot in place of the bombers, just pissed me off when they did that. Too bad we don’t still have SAC around anymore, i think our country is more vulnerable without it. IDK maybe I’m wrong?

  • @hazmatt3250
    @hazmatt3250 5 лет назад

    5:11 one of these things is not like the other 🤔

    • @DrForrester87
      @DrForrester87 4 года назад

      What's at 5:11? I saw a guy belchin' some flame at 3:11 but I didn't catch anything with 5:11

  • @Ilikecheese362
    @Ilikecheese362 6 лет назад

    They just showed this at a CC call

  • @timothydawson4998
    @timothydawson4998 5 месяцев назад

    We did this in -30 weather Maine ....

  • @kimc3024
    @kimc3024 2 года назад

    Its an entire flock!! Don't you just wuv their widdle wings???😊

  • @geraldmorain3166
    @geraldmorain3166 4 года назад +1

    I am old and tired but will stand to my oath of SERVICE to the constitution

    • @gregk.8802
      @gregk.8802 3 года назад

      Ya done good Gerald. Thank you. By fellow patriot.

  • @Zoydian
    @Zoydian 6 лет назад

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @irishtino1595
    @irishtino1595 3 года назад

    Unfortunately, hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic ballistic missiles make a 30-minute scramble unfeasible.

  • @bcg7006
    @bcg7006 6 лет назад +1

    アメリカはスゴい!

  • @geraldmorain3166
    @geraldmorain3166 4 года назад

    Fairchild fab 1980 b52g

    • @geraldmorain3166
      @geraldmorain3166 4 года назад

      A.F.B.

    • @GM8101PHX
      @GM8101PHX 2 года назад

      @@geraldmorain3166 Also Fairchild AFB 1977-1982 92d Security Police SSgt Alpha Flight!!

  • @robf93
    @robf93 6 лет назад +2

    Wouldn't you just love to have one of these the next time someone lectures you about your privilege?

    • @muffinman8744
      @muffinman8744 5 лет назад

      Yea.. the person with a B-52 has no privilege at all. Fucking ignorant ass.

  • @rogermurray5582
    @rogermurray5582 Год назад

    My Father Serve U.S.AIR FORCE Vietnam 🇻🇳 81th Fligher Wing Brentwaters England 🇬🇧 My Work on B-52 Bomber As mechanic He was Member S.A.C. My Father Died February 12,2009 age 😢 69

  • @jodelboy
    @jodelboy 8 лет назад

    dat smoke tho

  • @shelleybarnard5648
    @shelleybarnard5648 4 года назад

    K I Sawyer

  • @williamtiedje9446
    @williamtiedje9446 7 лет назад +2

    Tell Kim hello from the USA ...

    • @zulubalandre9851
      @zulubalandre9851 7 лет назад +1

      why do not you shake hands with him and escape the travel ban?

    • @zulubalandre9851
      @zulubalandre9851 7 лет назад

      why do not you shake hands with him and escape the travel ban?

  • @stanlloyd7030
    @stanlloyd7030 7 лет назад

    to slow t launch, need bigger engine, alert post closer to planes

  • @theranger4325
    @theranger4325 8 лет назад

    I like that ecept for war

  • @kathyarmstrong8739
    @kathyarmstrong8739 7 лет назад

    a bit it appears.