Similar
An air-to-air left side view of a flight of three Luke AFB fighters flying in a finger-tip formation. The formation is lead by the F-16 Fighting Falcon flagship of the 832nd Air Division with the F-15 Eagle flagship of the405th Tactical Training Wing on the right wing and the F-16 flagship of the 58th Tactical Training Wing on the left wing. Exact Date Shot Unknown
An F-16C Fighting Falcon Block 52 aircraft from the 157th Fighter Squadron, 169th Fighter Wing, McEntire Air National Guard Station, South Carolina, in flight. The aircraft is armed with AGM-88 HARM's (high-speed anti-radiation missile), AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and AIM-120 AMRAAM's (advanced medium-range air-to-air missile)
US Air Force (USAF) Major (MAJ) Murray Nance, Jr., an F-15C Eagle instructor pilot assigned to the 2nd Fighter Squadron (FS), from Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, flies along the Florida coast over the Gulf of Mexico
Aerial view of an F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 542nd Fighter Squadron, Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, returning from a bombing mission in New Mexico. The F-16's bombing missions are part of the world's largest joint service, multi-national tactical air operations exercise being held in the southwestern United States
An F-15 Eagle from 49th Tactical Fighter Wing, Holloman AFB, New Mexico comes in for a landing. Exact Date Shot Unknown
Qatari Mirage 2000s, a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber
Tasked for the very first time with a full-time combat search and rescue mission, an Aviano Air Base 510th Fighter Squadron F-16 Falcon, flies towards Rimini to join with the Italian Air Forces 83rd Combat Search And Rescue Squadron (CSAR)
An F-15 from the 40th Flight Test Squadron takes off
An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 18th Aggressor
Related
An air-to-air front view of the first operational B-1B bomber aircraft
An air-to-air front view of the first operational B-1B bomber aircraft
An air-to-air front view of the first operational B-1B bomber aircraft
An air-to-air front view of the first operational B-1B bomber aircraft
An air-to-air right front view of the first operational B-1B bomber aircraft
An air-to-air overhead view of a B-1B aircraft
A front view of the B-1 bomber aircraft on the runway
An air-to-air left side view of a B-1B bomber aircraft
A right front ground view of a B-1A aircraft
An air-to-air front view of the first operational B-1B bomber aircraft
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Michael J. Haggerty
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber built by Rockwell and used by the United States Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers in the U.S. Air Force fleet as of 2018, the other two being the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress. The B-1 was first envisioned in the 1960s as a platform that would combine the Mach 2 speed with the range and payload of the B-52. After a long series of studies, Rockwell International (now part of Boeing) won the design contest for what emerged as the B-1A. This version had a top speed of Mach 2.2 at high altitude and the capability of flying for long distances at Mach 0.85 at very low altitudes. The introduction of cruise missiles and early work on the stealth bombers led to the program being canceled in 1977. The program was restarted in 1981, largely as an interim measure due to delays in the B-2 stealth bomber program, with the B-2 eventually reaching initial operational capability in 1997. This led to a redesign as the B-1B, which differed from the B-1A by having a lower top speed at a high altitude of Mach 1.25, but improved low-altitude performance of Mach 0.96. The electronics were also extensively improved during the redesign, and the airframe was improved to allow takeoff with the maximum possible fuel and weapons load. The B-1B began deliveries in 1986 and formally entered service with Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a nuclear bomber in that same year. By 1988, all 100 aircraft had been delivered. Originally designed for nuclear capabilities, the B-1 switched to an exclusively conventional combat role in the mid-1990s.