Why America's B-1 Is a Bomber Like No Other (And Scares North Korea and China)
There is nothing like it.
Robert Beckhusen [2]
In the days after North Korea’s inaugural test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, pairs of U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancers based in Guam took off and flew close to the authoritarian state — linking up with South Korean and Japanese fighters along the way.
On July 7 and 8, pairs of the 150-foot-long jet bombers — one of America’s most powerful warplanes — carried out the missions, termed “demonstrations” by the Pentagon.
The high tempo of bomber flights in the Pacific is not entirely new.
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