During the Cold War, the U. Air Force purchased Boeing commercial airliners and turned them into tankers.
The KC Stratotanker was equipped with aerial refueling booms and enough internal fuel storage to transfer up to 32, gallons of fuel to thirsty fighters, bombers, and transports per mission. The KC could also transport up to Boeing began delivering KCs in and the airborne tanker fleet supported Strategic Air Command bombers flying patrols against the Soviet Union, U. Although each plane is an average of 58 years old the KC fleet will fly on for decades to come , with no real replacement waiting in the wings.
The BH bomber was designed to carry thermonuclear bombs to the Soviet Union and back. The first BH bomber was delivered in and the last in Today 76 of the original BHs are still flying with the U.
Air Force. Arms control agreements and platform obsolescence has forced the conversion of the planes into conventional-only bombers, their ability to carry nuclear weapons permanently stripped out. The Air Force plans to re-engine the bombers , making them cheaper and more reliable, keeping them in the air well into the s, at which point the B52H fleet will be an average of 70 years old. While these are the oldest, there are other bits of slightly younger aging tech still at work.
This article was originally published in May This list contains some of the oldest and best examples of various early guns. Richard J. The Gatling gun is considered to be the best example of early rapid fire weapons — it is the forerunner of the modern machine gun. The gun was designed in by Richard Gatling and patented the following year. The Gatling gun was first used in war during the American Civil War.
Twelve guns were purchased by Untion commanders and used during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. Today, there are several automatic rotary machine guns that were influenced by the design of the Gatling gun. Colt received the first patent for his revolving mechanism in Britain in and a year later, he obtained the U.
Colt continued to manufacture guns at this company until after a string of patchy success. Initially, Colt was unable to secure a government contract for his guns until when the Mexican-American War was underway. Colt worked with Captain Samuel H. Walker to improve his revolver and General Zachary Taylor ordered 1, Colt revolvers.
It was initially created in for the French Army. Trained French infantrymen were expected to be able to fire three volleys a minute with this musket. In the early s, after the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte wanted the muskets to be slightly reworked. Other small improvements of the musket occurred in and The gun was patented by James Puckle in It was a tripod-mounted, single-barrel flintlock weapon with a manually operated revolving cylinder.
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