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US Air Force decommissioned first B-1B Lancer bomber

US Air Force decommissioned first B-1B Lancer bomber
U.S. Air Force begins decommissioning long-range B-1B Lancer bombers, the first aircraft has already departed for the site of the 309th group for maintenance and repair of aerospace equipment (Bitter), better known as “aircraft cemetery”.

Как сообщает Military.com, полностью американские ВВС планируют избавиться от B-1B Lancer до 2036 of the year. Причиной списания называется изношенность парка самолетов, выработка сроков летной годности и слишком дорогое обслуживание и ремонт. reported, что часть средств, сэкономленных при списании бомбардировщиков В-1, пойдет на разработку и закупку перспективного бомбардировщика B-21 Raider.

О намерении ВВС США сократить размер имеющегося парка B-1B Lancer сообщалось еще в 2019 year. В командовании ВВС тогда заявили, что с начала 2000-х годов B-1B Lancer рассматривался в качестверабочей лошадки”, а постоянное развертывание данных машин, в частности в ходе проведения военных кампаний на Ближнем Востоке и в Афганистане, привело к износу бомбардировщиков, which the “не ожидали”.

B-1 Lancer heavy bomber (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 kg, 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); the maximum combat load – 38 000, – normal combat load – 10 900 kg.

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