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Need a ‘New’ B-1B Lancer Bomber? Then You Need to Go to the ‘Boneyard’

Last year, the Air Force pulled B-1B 86-0115 “Rage” out of the Arizona boneyard, swapping it in for 86-0126 “Hungry Devil,” whose deep structural repairs proved costlier and slower than reviving a ...
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The Air Force’s B-1B Lancer Bomber Came Close to Never ‘Flying’

Key Points and Summary – The B-1B Lancer’s arc is uniquely American: canceled as the B-1A by Carter, resurrected by Reagan as the B-1B, sidelined for Desert Storm, then reborn as a conventional strike ...