{"id":95612,"date":"2026-03-06T04:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/what-is-b-52-stratofortress-how-the-cold-war-era-us-bomber-is-being-used-to-strike-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:36:20","slug":"what-is-b-52-stratofortress-how-the-cold-war-era-us-bomber-is-being-used-to-strike-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/what-is-b-52-stratofortress-how-the-cold-war-era-us-bomber-is-being-used-to-strike-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"What is B-52 Stratofortress? How the Cold War-era US bomber is being used to strike Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US B-52 Stratofortress bombers are intensifying strikes against Iranian targets under Operation Epic Fury, hitting ballistic missile infrastructure and command-and-control posts. These long-range heavy bombers, designed during the Cold War, remain a crucial part of the US arsenal due to their payload capacity and endurance, capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear weapons.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US B-52 Stratofortress bombers are intensifying strikes against Iranian targets under Operation Epic Fury, hitting ballistic missile infrastructure and command-and-control posts. These long-range heavy bombers, designed during the Cold War, remain a crucial part of the US arsenal due to their payload capacity and endurance, capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}