Marking 40 years of service, the B-1B Lancer remains a cornerstone of US conventional airpower, capable of long-range strikes, soon to be phased out as the B-21 Raider enters service.

This is Strange: The U.S. Air Force is reactivating and modernizing B-1B Lancer bombers from the boneyard to address delays in the B-21 Raider program and bridge the gap in its bomber fleet. The ...

The B-1B Lancer, nicknamed the Bone, can exceed 900 miles per hour (Mach 1.2 at sea level) thanks to its four General Electric F101-GE-102 turbofan engines.

The B-1's development began in the 1970s as an intended replacement for the aging B-52. Before it could be introduced, a variant model, the B-1B Lancer, was produced in 1981, improving the ...

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, attached to the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, flies over the Pacific Ocean after taking off from Andersen Air Force Base ...