"These flyovers, air demonstrations and static displays, including the landing for the B-52 on the peninsula, are part of our continued pledge to promote peace, stability and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula," U.S. 7th Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Rachel Buitrago said in a statement released by U.S. Forces Korea.

Ah yes, nothing says "pledge to promote peace" like flying a nuclear-capable bomber as a show of force.

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Deterrence is a thing, do you think it doesn't work?

[–] dmonzel@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Threatening people always works out well in the end. /s

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Moving Soviet missiles to Cuba was a deterrence and that almost triggered a nuclear war.

[–] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn’t realize a B-52 had never landed in South Korea before. I would have assumed it had already happened enough times to be completely unremarkable.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same. I guess they usually stay at Okinawa, or taiwan or maybe the Phillipines.

[–] flying_monkies@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

or Guam.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At first I was thinking Guam would be too far to actually fly sorties from, but with an 8000miles range, I could see them doing that during Vietnam or some other pacific theater.

[–] flying_monkies@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The B52s that started Gulf War came from Louisiana. They flew nonstop to the Middle East then returned to their base in the U.S. 35 hours of flight time with no stopovers...

Guam to Korea is a short stroll.