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 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.
FYI- Google has 100 built.
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.