The B-1 Lancer is a strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force. Its origins began in the 1960s as a supersonic bomber with sufficient range and payload to replace the B-52 Stratofortress, but developed primarily into a low-level, subsonic penetrator with long range. The design was canceled and re-instated multiple times over its lengthy development history, as the theory of strategic balance changed from flexible response to mutually assured destruction and back again. It finally entered service over twenty years after first being studied.
It lacks the glamor of the stealthy B-2 flying wing, or the reverance accorded to the B-52 Stratofortress, but the Rockwell B-1B Lancer is a highly advanced supersonic bomber with a capacity to carry immense loads of nuclear and conventional weapons.
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