Airmen load three 500 pound bombs are loaded under

Airmen load three 500 pound bombs are loaded under the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress at Barksdale Air Force Base, La, Feb. 1, 2017. Earlier, the Airmen installed munitions on a Conventional Rotary Launcher, a new weapons system allowing the B-52 to carry up to eight different types of bombs on a single mission. The CRL was being tested for the first time in a live fire training mission (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason McCasland/Released)