Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The U.S. Air Force’s B-1B Lancer is set to fly off into retirement in the coming decade. But for now, the old warbird is...
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The U.S. Air Force’s B-1B Lancer is set to fly off into retirement in the coming decade. But for now, the old warbird is...
Although only 20-years old in terms of combat service, some are already wondering when the fleet of 92 B1-B bombers will fully retire, a...
The U.S. Air Force’s inventory of B-1B Lancer bombers is limping into the sunset due to age. Congress overrode former President Donald Trump’s veto...
U.S. officials are not taking North Korea’s escalating provocations lightly. Last week, American B-1B bombers were deployed separately to South Korea and Japan to participate in allied military...
Boeing has proposed shifting the testing of hypersonic missiles from the B-52 to the B-1 Lancer instead.
The Air Force’s B1-B bomber may capture fewer headlines than a sleek-looking, stealthy B-2 or well-known F-35, yet the decades-old bomber has performed a...
What a Former Member of the U.S. Air Force Thinks of the B-1 Bomber and Its History: Commonly referred to as the “Bone,” the Rockwell...
The Rockwell B-1B Lancer remains one of the workhorse bombers of the United States Air Force, and this month, a number of the Cold...
In 1939, the United States military had fewer than 3,000 aircraft in service – yet, by the end of the Second World War in...
The old “Bone” is flying on borrowed time. That is a fair assessment of the state of the B-1B Lancer strategic bomber – an...