The US Air force on Thursday was transferred to the front Fairford base in the UK is another long-range supersonic bomber United States Air Force B-1B Lancer. As a result, on the basis of settled already four such bomber. The information obtained from monitoring data Western aviation resources.
Recall, Earlier a US air base in the state of Dice Texas Air Force carried out three long-haul flight heavy bomber with variable sweep wing B-1B “rocket launcher” also Fenford airbase in England, and that with 1 June make regular flights along the western borders of Russia in the Baltic region in order to develop attacking ground targets in the Kaliningrad region.
Also previously reported, that the British air base Fairford in Gloucestershire is designed to accommodate the US Air Force B-1B, B-52, as well as high-altitude strategic reconnaissance U-2.
Heavy bomber B-1 "Lancer" (English. Rockwell International B-1 Lancer — Улан) - multi-mode bomber, It was created as a replacement for the Boeing B-52 as part of AMSA program 1965 city, and the first combat aircraft in the world, design technology which elements have been widely implemented “stealth”. It consists in the US Air Force to 27 July 1985 of the year. In the early 1990s, it has begun renovations of aircraft B-1 for equipping them with conventional weapons. The final version of the bomber (B-1B) It introduces the concept of a low-altitude air defense effort by flying on ultra-low-altitude terrain following.
Maximum flight speed at high altitude 1 330 kmh (M = 1,25); the speed at overcoming air defense at an altitude of flight 60 m – 965 kmh; service ceiling 15 240 m; ferry range of flight at high altitude 12 000 km; – Practical flight range with normal combat load at high altitude: without auxiliary fuel tank 9 600 km, with an additional fuel tank 10 400 km; Practical flight range with a maximum combat load 8700 km.
Maximum rated take-off 216 365, – actually reached the maximum take-off 213 192; empty 82 840; the maximum amount of fuel in internal tanks 88 450 (B-1A – 86 000); maximum allowable when flying at low altitude 191 420; the maximum combat load 38 000, – normal combat load 10 900.
