The B-1B Lancer’s 2025 deployment to Misawa Air Base isn’t about flying straight into China’s dense A2/AD kill zone—it would not survive that fight. -The non-stealth bomber’s large radar and IR ...

The B-1B Lancer is supposed to be on the glide path to retirement, yet in 2025 it keeps finding new ways to assert its ...

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 B-1B took part in a four-day exercise with the Indian Air Force, marking the first return to the country since the participation to the Cope India 2023 exercise. A single U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer ...

B-1B Lancer bombers deployed to Japan’s Misawa AB continue exercises with regional partners, while the B-52 Stratofortresses deployed to Spain’s Morón AB returned to Barksdale AFB. The U.S. Air Force ...

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 ...

Northrop Grumman is contracted to produce at least 100 of the long-range strike aircraft, which will carry conventional and nuclear weapons. The new bombers will replace the aging B-1B Lancer and B-2 ...