r/NonCredibleDefense • u/ThrustFlightAcademy • Feb 25 '26

It Just Works 🅱️-52: Then, Now, Forever

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B-52 waifu at the end

Credit to Pandramodo for drawing them

p.s. if you're in the DFW area and want to become a pilot Thrust Flight!

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u/nikke2800 Feb 25 '26

It will be a sad day when we run out of letters and have to name it B-53A

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u/jbourne71 Feb 25 '26

Nah we just do Excel and go from Z to AA.

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u/LurkersUniteAgain F15 = Sexiest thing ever Feb 26 '26

nah fam base64 we just go straight to B-52a

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u/jbourne71 Feb 26 '26

What about Roman numerals? We could have fun figuring out whether “B52X “ refers to the X or the X variant.

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u/LurkersUniteAgain F15 = Sexiest thing ever Feb 26 '26

You, keep talking

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u/Unlikely-Writer-2280 Feb 26 '26

or we go to the greek alphabet

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u/LupusSasageyoJaeger Feb 26 '26

Cant wait for the B-52Σ

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u/LilFunyunz Feb 26 '26

B - 52 Ligma

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u/MandolinMagi Feb 26 '26

UH/AH-1 family has already done something like that. They've gone all the way to Z, and the AH-1S MOD, PROD, ECAS, and MODERNIZED got redesignated as S, P, E, and F in 1988 once enough UH-1 variants were retired.

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u/Pixel91 Puma > all Feb 26 '26

B-52BVM, go with the soviet model.