• @psmgx
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    108 months ago

    Wut? The B1 saw plenty of action. For example:

    In the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom, eight B-1s dropped almost 40 percent of aerial ordnance, including some 3,900 JDAMs.

    Make no mistake it was an expensive program and didn’t deliver what was hoped, but it’s seen plenty of real world use.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      18 months ago

      So I was entirely ignorant about the project to refit B1s for conventional weapons starting in the George H. W. Bush administration. So, the last thirty odd years. I had thought we’d gone from B52s to B2s regarding conventional strategic bombing.