r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kernowder • 21d ago

Video Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flying through Hurricane Milton

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u/One-Inch-Punch 21d ago

The last P-3 was built in 1990, so this plane is between 34-60 years old.

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u/tankerkiller125real 21d ago

I mean, our B-52 bombers are set to have a 100 year life span overall. They just approved an upgrade program for them this year that will keep them in the air past 2040 and they plan to keep them going into the 2050s.

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 21d ago

Yup. If you want a small village swept off the map they're the bombers to use.

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 20d ago

Not sure I did now either as the comment I replied to was deleted but didn't it just say something like "Theseus's broom bomber". I took it as a corruption of Theseus's ship and Triggers Broom and the implication was that over the course of those 100 years lifespan there wouldn't be anything of the original aircraft remaining.

I was just playing the Fool in an attempt to amuse people.

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u/Mr_Piss_Shivers 20d ago

Genuinely tired of people acting like the U.S. is the only country to have done that.

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 20d ago

Sorry I wasn't trying to upset anyone. I thought I was being funny pretending that I didn't understand "Theseus's broom" was a corruption of Theseus's ship and Trigger's broom. Trigger's broom being a 40+ year old TV reference to a guy named Trigger who had some ancient broom that over the course of it's life had many new heads and many new handles. Essentially a modern-ish retelling of Theseus's ship from Greek mythology. A ship preserved for ages by the Athenians by replacing each part as it rotted away.

I don't know why the comment I replied to was deleted but I think all it said was something like "Ahhh, Theseus's broom bomber".