Featured in B-1BBYThomas NewdickSep 22, 2020ShareU.S. Strategic Command Tweet Throws Shade On Russia’s Long-Range Bomber MissionThe Russian Air Force’s latest long-range mission is impressive, but it is a long way from surpassing U.S. Air Force records BYThomas NewdickSep 22, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayAug 8, 2020ShareThis Is The Most Stunning Photo Of A B-1B Bomber Night Launch We’ve Ever SeenThe image masterly captures the elegant and ferocious qualities of the B-1B, especially when its four turbofans at roaring away in full afterburner. BYTyler RogowayAug 8, 2020ShareBYJamie HunterAug 4, 2020ShareRed Flag Is Back In Business As Two Of The Big Air Combat Exercises Kick Off SimultaneouslyTwo Red Flag exercises are underway this August as the U.S. Air Force strives to get high-end war-fighting training back on track. BYJamie HunterAug 4, 2020ShareBYJamie HunterJul 24, 2020ShareHuge Pacific Exercise Centered On Guam Brings Allies Together Amid Growing China ThreatAustralian, Japanese and U.S. forces combine to demonstrate an impressive show of integrated air and sea power in the tense Pacific. BYJamie HunterJul 24, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickJun 11, 2020ShareSenate Looks To Block Many Of The Pentagon’s “Tough Choices” Airpower Cuts In Next BudgetA proposed draft of the annual defense policy bill would prohibit services from getting rid of certain aircraft and order them to buy more of others. BYJoseph TrevithickJun 11, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickJun 9, 2020ShareAir Force Reveals B-1Bs Were Practicing Decapitating Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Last WeekRussia has decried that mission, as well as other American and NATO exercises around its borders in recent months, as provocative. BYJoseph TrevithickJun 9, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickMay 29, 2020ShareB-1B Bombers Fly With Ukrainian Flankers and MiGs Over The Black Sea For First Time EverMiGs from Poland and Romania, as well as other foreign fighter jets and tankers, also took part in the long-range training sortie. BYJoseph TrevithickMay 29, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayMay 22, 2020ShareB-1B Bomber Made Bold Flight Into The Sea Of Okhotsk That Is Surrounded By Russian TerritoryThe bomber flew all over the Pacific on a long mission that included venturing into airspace that is commonly avoided on such flights. BYTyler RogowayMay 22, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayMay 10, 2020ShareB-1B Bomber Brandishes A Belly Full Of Stealth Cruise Missiles While Deployed To GuamThe messaging is abundantly clear: U.S. bombers haven’t tucked-tail and run from the region, and they stand ready to deliver a big, stealthy punch. BYTyler RogowayMay 10, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickApr 24, 2020ShareAir Force Sends Full B-1B Airframe From Boneyard To Kansas To Create Its “Digital Twin”The highly detailed computer model will make it easier to identify potential points of failure to help keep the remaining bombers flying. BYJoseph TrevithickApr 24, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayApr 22, 2020ShareWe Have New Info And Photos From Yesterday’s Surprise B-1B Mission Across The Pacific (Updated)The bomber flew a round-trip flight from South Dakota to Japan and back as part of the Air Force’s new bomber strategy for the region. BYTyler RogowayApr 22, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayApr 21, 2020ShareA B-1B Bomber Just Flew Near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula After Crossing The Bering SeaThis is likely the first move in what the Air Force has said will be a far less predictable bomber deployment strategy for the region. BYTyler RogowayApr 21, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickApr 17, 2020ShareThe Air Force Abruptly Ends Its Continuous Bomber Presence On Guam After 16 YearsIn a dramatic and unannounced shift in policy and regional posture, the Air Force has ended its uninterrupted rotation of bombers to the island. BYJoseph TrevithickApr 17, 2020ShareBYJoseph TrevithickApr 8, 2020ShareAir Force Wants To Use External Pylons To Arm The B-1B Bomber With 31 Hypersonic MissilesThe configuration would revolutionize the B-1’s standoff strike capability and it would keep the jet relevant as it enters the twilight of its career. BYJoseph TrevithickApr 8, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayMar 24, 2020ShareTanker Boom Operator Photographs Rare And Glorious Formation Of Four B-1B BombersThe B-1B fleet has suffered from very low readiness rates and airframe fatigue, so seeing four in formation at the same time is quite a treat. BYTyler RogowayMar 24, 2020ShareBYStephen WalkerMar 5, 2020ShareCan And Should B-1B Bomber Crews’ Low-Level Flying Skills Be Saved?Low-level flying puts great stress on the airframe, but it also serves a tactical purpose. There may be a compromise that would satisfy both issues. BYStephen WalkerMar 5, 2020ShareBYStephen WalkerFeb 14, 2020ShareB-1B Bombers Can No Longer Fly At Low-Level And Their Annual Flight Hours Have Been RestrictedThe B-1 was never designed for perpetual combat operations and it hasn’t aged gracefully. Now major limits are being put on how and when they fly. BYStephen WalkerFeb 14, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2020ShareWanting To Retire B-1B Bombers Is One Thing, Actually Making It Happen Is AnotherThe Air Force will reportedly ask to retire a portion of its B-1Bs force, but the motivations behind the move and its feasibility are far from clear. BYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2020ShareBYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareB-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These MissilesThe AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile was a vital, but seldom discussed part of America’s airborne deterrent during the last half of the Cold War. BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareBYTyler RogowaySep 7, 2019ShareAir Force Touts B-1B Bomber’s Potential To Carry Huge Hypersonic Missiles And External StoresThe B-1B may have to fight for its life in the not so distant future, but new upgrades could give it the ammo it needs to survive the budget ax. BYTyler RogowaySep 7, 2019ShareBYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2019ShareThere Is A B-1B Bomber With A Red Colored Custom CockpitA ‘Bone’ based at Ellsworth Air Force Base has a very bold crimson interior. BYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2019ShareBYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2018ShareRemembering When The 366th Wing Was An Experimental Rapid Response ‘Air Force In A Box’As the ‘Gunfighters’ celebrate their 75th anniversary, we look back to when the wing became a grand experiment in emergency airpower projection. BYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2018ShareBYTyler RogowayMay 11, 2018ShareBoeing’s Been Granted A Patent For Turning The B-1B Into A Gunship Bristling With CannonsThe patent includes various concepts that would allow multiple cannon configurations to be uploaded into the B-1’s weapons bays. BYTyler RogowayMay 11, 2018ShareBYTyler Rogoway and Joseph TrevithickApr 14, 2018ShareHere Are All The Details The Pentagon Just Released Regarding Its Missile Attack On Syria (Updated)The Pentagon revealed new information about the operation including a detailed account of weapons and launch platforms used. BYTyler Rogoway and Joseph TrevithickApr 14, 2018ShareBYTyler RogowayFeb 12, 2018ShareUSAF’s Controversial New Plan To Retire B-2 And B-1 Bombers Early Is A Good OneThe flying service is making the right sacrifices to ensure the B-21 Raider gets fielded in large numbers while making the B-52 all it can be. BYTyler RogowayFeb 12, 2018ShareBYTyler RogowayJan 16, 2018ShareB-52H Bombers Have Arrived In Guam To Take Over The Continuous Bomber Presence MissionAmid escalating tensions with North Korea, the B-52s join B-1B and B-2A bombers already forward deployed to the Pacific island outpost. BYTyler RogowayJan 16, 2018ShareBYTyler RogowayJan 11, 2018ShareHere’s What The B-2’s Arrival In Guam Means For North Korea, The Olympics, And MoreThe B-2 brings a very unique, relevant, and feared set of capabilities to the region, but does its sudden presence mean war is just around the corner? BYTyler RogowayJan 11, 2018ShareBYTyler RogowaySep 25, 2017ShareLast Time North Korea Shot Down A U.S. Military Plane It Could Have Led To Nuclear WarNorth Korea’s threat to shoot down U.S. bombers operating in international airspace is eerily reminiscent of the downing of a EC-121 in 1969. BYTyler RogowaySep 25, 2017ShareBYTyler RogowaySep 18, 2017ShareF-35s Were Carrying Live AIM-120 Missiles During Show Of Force Training Flight Over KoreaThe Pentagon may be attempting to send a message to North Korean intelligence analysts via photos released from the mission. BYTyler RogowaySep 18, 2017ShareBYTyler RogowayAug 11, 2017ShareTrump Conjures Up North Korean Hysteria As Window For A Negotiated Solution ClosesThe President recklessly injects dangerous rhetoric into an already precarious situation as time left for a diplomatic solution rapidly dwindles. BYTyler RogowayAug 11, 2017ShareBYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2017ShareB-1B Wows Oshkosh Crowd With Epic High-Speed Afterburner Passes At DuskThe B-1B “Bone” poured flame and roared before disappearing partially into erupting clouds of dense vapor. BYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2017ShareBYTyler RogowayDec 20, 2016ShareThis Is One Awesome B-1B “Bone” Video MontageThe big swing-wing bomber has never looked so good. BYTyler RogowayDec 20, 2016ShareBYTyler RogowaySep 22, 2016ShareUS Bombers Fly Closer to DMZ than Ever Before in Lame Attempt to Deter N. KoreaA deterrence gesture that really shows how the US is running out of ideas on how to keep Pyongyang in check. BYTyler RogowaySep 22, 2016ShareBYTyler RogowaySep 12, 2016ShareSouth Korea’s ‘Massive Punishment & Retaliation’ War Plan Turns Pyongyang To RubbleThis is the war plan if a nuclear attack from the North was imminent. BYTyler RogowaySep 12, 2016ShareBYTyler RogowayAug 12, 2016ShareThe B-1B ‘Bone’ Rolls Out Of The World’s Largest Anechoic Test ChamberAnd it appears to have gone for a little joyride shortly thereafter. BYTyler RogowayAug 12, 2016Share12
BYThomas NewdickSep 22, 2020ShareU.S. Strategic Command Tweet Throws Shade On Russia’s Long-Range Bomber MissionThe Russian Air Force’s latest long-range mission is impressive, but it is a long way from surpassing U.S. Air Force records BYThomas NewdickSep 22, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayAug 8, 2020ShareThis Is The Most Stunning Photo Of A B-1B Bomber Night Launch We’ve Ever SeenThe image masterly captures the elegant and ferocious qualities of the B-1B, especially when its four turbofans at roaring away in full afterburner. BYTyler RogowayAug 8, 2020Share
BYJamie HunterAug 4, 2020ShareRed Flag Is Back In Business As Two Of The Big Air Combat Exercises Kick Off SimultaneouslyTwo Red Flag exercises are underway this August as the U.S. Air Force strives to get high-end war-fighting training back on track. BYJamie HunterAug 4, 2020Share
BYJamie HunterJul 24, 2020ShareHuge Pacific Exercise Centered On Guam Brings Allies Together Amid Growing China ThreatAustralian, Japanese and U.S. forces combine to demonstrate an impressive show of integrated air and sea power in the tense Pacific. BYJamie HunterJul 24, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickJun 11, 2020ShareSenate Looks To Block Many Of The Pentagon’s “Tough Choices” Airpower Cuts In Next BudgetA proposed draft of the annual defense policy bill would prohibit services from getting rid of certain aircraft and order them to buy more of others. BYJoseph TrevithickJun 11, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickJun 9, 2020ShareAir Force Reveals B-1Bs Were Practicing Decapitating Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Last WeekRussia has decried that mission, as well as other American and NATO exercises around its borders in recent months, as provocative. BYJoseph TrevithickJun 9, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickMay 29, 2020ShareB-1B Bombers Fly With Ukrainian Flankers and MiGs Over The Black Sea For First Time EverMiGs from Poland and Romania, as well as other foreign fighter jets and tankers, also took part in the long-range training sortie. BYJoseph TrevithickMay 29, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayMay 22, 2020ShareB-1B Bomber Made Bold Flight Into The Sea Of Okhotsk That Is Surrounded By Russian TerritoryThe bomber flew all over the Pacific on a long mission that included venturing into airspace that is commonly avoided on such flights. BYTyler RogowayMay 22, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayMay 10, 2020ShareB-1B Bomber Brandishes A Belly Full Of Stealth Cruise Missiles While Deployed To GuamThe messaging is abundantly clear: U.S. bombers haven’t tucked-tail and run from the region, and they stand ready to deliver a big, stealthy punch. BYTyler RogowayMay 10, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickApr 24, 2020ShareAir Force Sends Full B-1B Airframe From Boneyard To Kansas To Create Its “Digital Twin”The highly detailed computer model will make it easier to identify potential points of failure to help keep the remaining bombers flying. BYJoseph TrevithickApr 24, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayApr 22, 2020ShareWe Have New Info And Photos From Yesterday’s Surprise B-1B Mission Across The Pacific (Updated)The bomber flew a round-trip flight from South Dakota to Japan and back as part of the Air Force’s new bomber strategy for the region. BYTyler RogowayApr 22, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayApr 21, 2020ShareA B-1B Bomber Just Flew Near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula After Crossing The Bering SeaThis is likely the first move in what the Air Force has said will be a far less predictable bomber deployment strategy for the region. BYTyler RogowayApr 21, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickApr 17, 2020ShareThe Air Force Abruptly Ends Its Continuous Bomber Presence On Guam After 16 YearsIn a dramatic and unannounced shift in policy and regional posture, the Air Force has ended its uninterrupted rotation of bombers to the island. BYJoseph TrevithickApr 17, 2020Share
BYJoseph TrevithickApr 8, 2020ShareAir Force Wants To Use External Pylons To Arm The B-1B Bomber With 31 Hypersonic MissilesThe configuration would revolutionize the B-1’s standoff strike capability and it would keep the jet relevant as it enters the twilight of its career. BYJoseph TrevithickApr 8, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayMar 24, 2020ShareTanker Boom Operator Photographs Rare And Glorious Formation Of Four B-1B BombersThe B-1B fleet has suffered from very low readiness rates and airframe fatigue, so seeing four in formation at the same time is quite a treat. BYTyler RogowayMar 24, 2020Share
BYStephen WalkerMar 5, 2020ShareCan And Should B-1B Bomber Crews’ Low-Level Flying Skills Be Saved?Low-level flying puts great stress on the airframe, but it also serves a tactical purpose. There may be a compromise that would satisfy both issues. BYStephen WalkerMar 5, 2020Share
BYStephen WalkerFeb 14, 2020ShareB-1B Bombers Can No Longer Fly At Low-Level And Their Annual Flight Hours Have Been RestrictedThe B-1 was never designed for perpetual combat operations and it hasn’t aged gracefully. Now major limits are being put on how and when they fly. BYStephen WalkerFeb 14, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2020ShareWanting To Retire B-1B Bombers Is One Thing, Actually Making It Happen Is AnotherThe Air Force will reportedly ask to retire a portion of its B-1Bs force, but the motivations behind the move and its feasibility are far from clear. BYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2020Share
BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019ShareB-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These MissilesThe AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile was a vital, but seldom discussed part of America’s airborne deterrent during the last half of the Cold War. BYTyler RogowayDec 1, 2019Share
BYTyler RogowaySep 7, 2019ShareAir Force Touts B-1B Bomber’s Potential To Carry Huge Hypersonic Missiles And External StoresThe B-1B may have to fight for its life in the not so distant future, but new upgrades could give it the ammo it needs to survive the budget ax. BYTyler RogowaySep 7, 2019Share
BYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2019ShareThere Is A B-1B Bomber With A Red Colored Custom CockpitA ‘Bone’ based at Ellsworth Air Force Base has a very bold crimson interior. BYTyler RogowayFeb 4, 2019Share
BYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2018ShareRemembering When The 366th Wing Was An Experimental Rapid Response ‘Air Force In A Box’As the ‘Gunfighters’ celebrate their 75th anniversary, we look back to when the wing became a grand experiment in emergency airpower projection. BYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2018Share
BYTyler RogowayMay 11, 2018ShareBoeing’s Been Granted A Patent For Turning The B-1B Into A Gunship Bristling With CannonsThe patent includes various concepts that would allow multiple cannon configurations to be uploaded into the B-1’s weapons bays. BYTyler RogowayMay 11, 2018Share
BYTyler Rogoway and Joseph TrevithickApr 14, 2018ShareHere Are All The Details The Pentagon Just Released Regarding Its Missile Attack On Syria (Updated)The Pentagon revealed new information about the operation including a detailed account of weapons and launch platforms used. BYTyler Rogoway and Joseph TrevithickApr 14, 2018Share
BYTyler RogowayFeb 12, 2018ShareUSAF’s Controversial New Plan To Retire B-2 And B-1 Bombers Early Is A Good OneThe flying service is making the right sacrifices to ensure the B-21 Raider gets fielded in large numbers while making the B-52 all it can be. BYTyler RogowayFeb 12, 2018Share
BYTyler RogowayJan 16, 2018ShareB-52H Bombers Have Arrived In Guam To Take Over The Continuous Bomber Presence MissionAmid escalating tensions with North Korea, the B-52s join B-1B and B-2A bombers already forward deployed to the Pacific island outpost. BYTyler RogowayJan 16, 2018Share
BYTyler RogowayJan 11, 2018ShareHere’s What The B-2’s Arrival In Guam Means For North Korea, The Olympics, And MoreThe B-2 brings a very unique, relevant, and feared set of capabilities to the region, but does its sudden presence mean war is just around the corner? BYTyler RogowayJan 11, 2018Share
BYTyler RogowaySep 25, 2017ShareLast Time North Korea Shot Down A U.S. Military Plane It Could Have Led To Nuclear WarNorth Korea’s threat to shoot down U.S. bombers operating in international airspace is eerily reminiscent of the downing of a EC-121 in 1969. BYTyler RogowaySep 25, 2017Share
BYTyler RogowaySep 18, 2017ShareF-35s Were Carrying Live AIM-120 Missiles During Show Of Force Training Flight Over KoreaThe Pentagon may be attempting to send a message to North Korean intelligence analysts via photos released from the mission. BYTyler RogowaySep 18, 2017Share
BYTyler RogowayAug 11, 2017ShareTrump Conjures Up North Korean Hysteria As Window For A Negotiated Solution ClosesThe President recklessly injects dangerous rhetoric into an already precarious situation as time left for a diplomatic solution rapidly dwindles. BYTyler RogowayAug 11, 2017Share
BYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2017ShareB-1B Wows Oshkosh Crowd With Epic High-Speed Afterburner Passes At DuskThe B-1B “Bone” poured flame and roared before disappearing partially into erupting clouds of dense vapor. BYTyler RogowayJul 27, 2017Share
BYTyler RogowayDec 20, 2016ShareThis Is One Awesome B-1B “Bone” Video MontageThe big swing-wing bomber has never looked so good. BYTyler RogowayDec 20, 2016Share
BYTyler RogowaySep 22, 2016ShareUS Bombers Fly Closer to DMZ than Ever Before in Lame Attempt to Deter N. KoreaA deterrence gesture that really shows how the US is running out of ideas on how to keep Pyongyang in check. BYTyler RogowaySep 22, 2016Share
BYTyler RogowaySep 12, 2016ShareSouth Korea’s ‘Massive Punishment & Retaliation’ War Plan Turns Pyongyang To RubbleThis is the war plan if a nuclear attack from the North was imminent. BYTyler RogowaySep 12, 2016Share
BYTyler RogowayAug 12, 2016ShareThe B-1B ‘Bone’ Rolls Out Of The World’s Largest Anechoic Test ChamberAnd it appears to have gone for a little joyride shortly thereafter. BYTyler RogowayAug 12, 2016Share