B-1B Lancer Units in Combat (Osprey)
The Lancer began its duties with Strategic Air Command as a nuclear-armed bomber in the mid-1980s. The end of the Cold War intervened, and the aircraft was removed from its nuclear missions as a result of arms control legislation. In order to retain the B-1 as a viable frontline type, the USAF re-rolled the Lancer as a potent conventional weapons carrier.
The wide-range of ordnance which the B-1B can carry has seen it participating in Operation Desert Fox over Iraq, Operation Allied Force over Kosovo and Serbia, Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and most recently during Operation Iraqi Freedom, when the aircraft was used to personally target Saddam Hussein.
| Author: | Thomas Withington |
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| Specs: | 96 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 0.8 cm / 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.31 in, paperback |
| Illustrations: | photographs and drawings (in b&w and colour) |
| Publisher: | Osprey Publishing (GB, 2006) |
| Series: | Combat Aircraft (60) |
B-1B Lancer Units in Combat
Language: English
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