The B-1B Lancer was born as a low-level nuclear penetrator aimed at the Soviet Union, then reinvented as America’s ...
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Disaster? Why the B-1B Lancer Bomber Would Be Annihilated In a China War

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 ...