B-52 Stratofortress Vs Sa-2 Guideline Sam: Vietnam 1972-73

Ever since its introduction in the late 1950s, the B-52 Stratofortress has been the United States` primary heavy bomber and a powerful symbol of its immense military might. Its powerful electronic countermeasures equipment (ECM) was thought to make the B-52 immune to ground-to-air missile attack, but in Vietnam, and later conflicts such as Operation Desert Storm in 1991, it came up against the Soviet-designed SA-2 SAM which used heavy salvos of missiles to bring down the bombers.