What was the B-52 and what could it do?

During the Vietnam War the B52 Stratofortress was a SAC heavy bomber (Strategic Air Command). The best thing about it was the NVA couldn't shoot it down because it flew so high and dropped 108 750lb general purpose high exposive bombs on a single pass.

The SAM ground defense teams in North Vietnam could shoot it down, but not the NVA in South Vietnam.

One B52 dropped more bombs than ten WWII B17 bombers.

Vietnam's "general purpose" HE bombs are today called iron or dumb bombs due to todays SMART BOMBs.