Am I they only one who has reservations about basically sending an AIRLINER to war? We could have built a both better and cheaper MMA by modifying and renovating Boneyard BUFFs... other than the love affair that the dip-ShipHighInTransit diplomats have with Commies, who especially hate and fear the B-52 by name.
Airliners are built to much tougher basic strength standards. They have to be
to meet the regulations, as the average airliner is used on a daily basis, day in
day out, year after year, warplanes are not.
The B-52 is way too narrow and has the wrong layout for the consoles and
operators that are the most important part of an MMA, aircraft in that
role are not 'bomb trucks', nor do they need to be.
If you were someone who had really studied or worked in aerospace, rather than
the occupant of your mum's basement, you'd know all that.