The B-1B came back from the dead thanks to a doctrinal shift in how US bombers should operate and the need for a bridge ahead of the B-2 Spirit.

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 ...

What will a bomb carrier of the Cold War become when the purpose of its creation is forgotten? The solution in the B-1B Lancer case has been an extended, gradual process of decreasing the Lancer to a ...

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 ...

The United States voluntarily de-nuclearized its B-1 bombers in the 1990s in accordance with the START I treaty with Russia—but it gained much from the move as well. The original B-1A Lancer was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A B-1 Lancer bomber from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A B-1 Lancer bomber from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota crashed Thursday, with all four of its crew members ejecting, the Air Force said. The B-1 crashed “at approximately ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A B-1 Lancer bomber from ...