U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Corey Hook
A B-1B Lancer at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Daktoa. Last year airmen at Ellsworth launched for strikes against Libya within 40 hours after being told of the mission.
Posted on 04/09/2012 9:37:08 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Corey Hook
A B-1B Lancer at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Daktoa. Last year airmen at Ellsworth launched for strikes against Libya within 40 hours after being told of the mission.
The thing that makes the B1 cool is that it can project power anywhere in the world in probably 48 hours or less, and while everyone is watching the fireworks, the rest of us are already on station or on the way
Great pic! Ellsworth? Thought it looked familiar.
ah yes Dak To. Great NCO club.
A truly amazing aircraft.
How many of these bombers do we have?
I'll take a wild guess and say not nearly enough.
We can thank President Reagan for the ones we do have.
I still think it is one of the most beautiful birds out there.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Jimmy Carter still sucks as bad as the day he canceled the original B-1 Bomber.
We can thank President Reagan for the ones we do have.
Yes, President Reagan brought them back after Carter refused to fund them.
FYI- Google has 100 built.
/johnny
Very impressive photo.
Thanks for the info.
So the Bone is essentially an A-10 with 100 bombs on board.
Cool!
Still the prettiest plane in the inventory.
I wonder if you can sling rotary launchers in the bomb bays and fill ‘em up with Harpoons? Just think, a squadron of B-1Bs with that sort of load out could lay waste to most of the Chinese surface fleet...
Probably PO the USN, though.
They already carry CRLs in the bomb bays. So they could feasibly mount Harpoons.
They have modified B-52s to carry harpoons in a maritime patrol role...carrying 12 harpoons each. A B-1b could carry many more and old be a heck of a maritime strike aircraft.
They were looking at a new 16 carry rotary launcher in 2011. If they implement those it woul triple the number of weapons it could launch up to 48.
Here’s a link to the EW rotary launchers.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_c2d9d02a-64a9-11e0-b878-001cc4c03286.html
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