The B-1B Lancer has spent recent years shuttling between deployments and groundings as maintainers struggle to keep a shrinking fleet airworthy. In fiscal year 2023 its mission capable rate fell below ...

There are only 45 B-1Bs still in service in the U.S. Air Force, but the relevance of the aircraft in the present day is a mission that the designers never intended to emphasize: launching big ...

The “temporarily” relocated unit was originally slated to last 10 months and has nearly concluded, as Ellsworth AFB announced this week that the B-1B Lancers are coming home. It was a year ago, in ...

The B-1Bs of the 28th Bomb Wing are returning to Ellsworth AFB, after runway reconstruction has been completed in preparation for the B-21’s arrival. In its Facebook post, Ellsworth AFB said: “A few ...

The B-1 Lancer program was curtailed in the 1970s as an unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars. That changed when Ronald Reagan entered office. The B-1B Lancer was conceived as a key leg of America’s ...

In October 2025, the United States Air Force dispatched two B-1B Lancer bombers to South America, leading some to wonder why they're still being flown. After all, the B-1B is an old aircraft, having ...

A pair of B-1B bombers flew over the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela on Monday, flight tracking data showed, in the third such show of force by US military aircraft in recent weeks. The ...