DefenceTalkDefenceTalkBARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE: In support of its efforts to modernize America’s bomber fleet, the Air Force will begin divesting 17 B-1B Lancers from its current fleet as authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act. This action will not affect the service’s lethality or any associated maintenance manpower. It will allow officials to focus maintenance […]https://www.defencetalk.com/usaf-begins-retirement-of-b-1-aircraft-paving-way-for-b-21-76807/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkTINKER AIR FORCE BASE: An eight-year project to install the Integrated Battle Station, or IBS, on the B-1B Lancer fleet has been completed ahead of schedule. Sixty aircraft went through the modification process that began in late 2012 and was completed this month. The IBS was developed as three separate modifications: Fully Integrated Data Link, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/b-1b-integrated-battle-station-modification-completed-76397/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkUnited States Air Force B-1B Lancers and B-2 Spirit bombers have recently participated in a combined United States-Australia exercise in the Northern Territory. The B1-B and B-2 aircraft flew from Guam and Diego Garcia respectively, and operated over Delamere, Bradshaw and Mount Bundey training areas during August. The activity saw the United States aircraft integrate […]https://www.defencetalk.com/united-states-b-1b-bomber-training-in-the-australian-top-end-76268/

DefenceTalkThe Swedish Air Force today conducted a combined air exercise with parts of the US Air Force, an exercise that had been planned for a long time, in which all air force units with fighter aircraft as well as the Air Combat Training School participated. Swedish fighter aircraft­– Jas 39 Gripen – escorted US B-1B […]https://www.defencetalk.com/usaf-b-1b-bombers-train-with-swedish-air-force-75626/

DefenceTalkAircraft from the Royal Air Force have been carrying out intensive training sorties with US strategic bomber aircraft over the North Sea. The Royal Air Force aircraft from RAF stations Lossiemouth, Waddington and Brize Norton were launched, to escort USAF B-1B Lancer bombers, that were conducting their latest long-range training sortie. The US aircraft are […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raf-typhoons-train-with-united-states-b-1b-bombers-and-nato-allies-75622/

DefenceTalkJOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii: B-1B Lancers returned to the Indo-Pacific region May 1 to conduct bomber task force operations out of Andersen Air Base, Guam. Four bombers and approximately 200 Airmen from the 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, deployed to support Pacific Air Forces’ training efforts with allies, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/b-1b-lancers-return-to-indo-pacific-for-bomber-task-force-deployment-75380/

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE: Over the last 35 years, the B-1B Lancer community has continuously reinvented itself as a premiere long-range precision strike platform. However, continuous bomber support operations over the last 20 years have taken a toll on the airframe’s structure due to overuse in a manner not commensurate with its planned design. Currently […]

DefenceTalkUS bombers overflew the Korean peninsula Thursday as part of an exercise with Japanese and South Korean warplanes, the US Air Force said, days before President Donald Trump arrives in the region for a trip set to be dominated by the nuclear-armed North. Tensions are high over Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and atomic programmes, which in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-sends-supersonic-bombers-over-south-korea-70729/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin conducted the first free flight launch of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) from a B-1B Lancer Aug.16 over Point Mugu Sea Range in California. This event marked the first end-to-end functionality test of LRASM, and proved the weapon’s ability to identify and prosecute a moving target at sea. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-completes-first-lrasm-free-flight-from-b-1b-lancer-70332/

DefenceTalkIn response to North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs and as a part of the continuing demonstration of ironclad U.S. commitment to our allies, two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers under the command of U.S. Pacific Air Forces, joined their counterparts from the Republic of Korea and Japanese air forces in a sequenced bilateral […]https://www.defencetalk.com/b-1-bombers-conduct-bilateral-missions-in-response-to-north-korea-missile-test-70202/