Shakespeare uses it as a symbol of Richard's deformity of soul and as a signal of his villainous nature and depravity. There are many cruel depictions of Richard's hump in the play. Even he himself says, at the beginning of the play, that he was born that way, and born prematurely. Being repulsive as he is, it is hard for him to find any pleasure in life. This is the initial, psychological motivation for all of his misdeeds.
Over its sixty-year lifetime, the B-52’s avionics, flight hardware, and weapons systems have been upgraded. In 2006, the fleet received a “mid-life” upgrade to its avionics, adding modern processors and navigation systems. In 2014, the Air Force gave the BUFFS their first new communications system since the 1960s, including full-color LCDs to replace the old cathode ray tube screens. <span>On the weapons front, the airplanes are due to receive weapons-bay upgrades, enabling them to hold more smart bombs, and radar enhancements, potentially including the Active Electronically Scanned Array Systems technology. Used by fighter jets like the F-22 Raptor, the digital radar system is vastly more precise and offers higher resolution than conventional radar dishes. </span>