The U.S. Air Force is pushing to arm the B-1 bomber with dozens of stealthy cruise missiles. It could carry as many as 36 anti-ship or land-attack cruise missiles. The transparent amount of firepower ...
Most modern aircraft use four jet engines, but the B-52 bomber has eight. The reasons start in one frantic weekend its ...
Originally conceived as a supersonic long-range strategic nuclear heavy bomber, the B-1 has evolved into a very effective multi-role conventional warplane. A product of the Cold War, the North ...
Key Points and Summary - The B-1B Lancer was born to sprint under Soviet radars but made its name as a precision bomber: late-1990s Iraq, Kosovo, years of Afghanistan and Iraq CAS, Inherent Resolve ...
At the time of its introduction, the B-1B was a behemoth of an aircraft. Its payload capacity was utterly staggering, capable of carrying up to 24 GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs)—dwarfing ...
Most of the older performance aircraft still in use by the military - including the F-15, F-16, U-2 spy plane, B-52 and B-1 bomber, are off-limits to the general public. A ride in one usually is ...
Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...
Every single structural component of the Lancer, down to the nuts and bolts, was scanned, and then “reassembled” as a digital model before repairs took place. Earlier this week, one of the Cold ...
The US Air Force is updating its B-52 with new radar technology and engines. US President Donald Trump's STATCOM nominee said the upgrades make the B-52 basically "a new airplane." The upgrades are ...
The B-52's 66% mission-capable rate beats the B-1's 46%, which explains why the Air Force is keeping it in service through ...
Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, a little over a week after another group of American bombers made a similar ...