Author: Jeffrey A. Merkley
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437900100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The B-1B bomber has many special features that enhance its ability to penetrate Soviet air defenses. Even so, many reported deficiencies -- including shortcomings in the bomber¿s defensive and offensive avionics and a range that is shorter than anticipated -- have instilled doubts about its capability to perform the mission for which it was originally designed. This report raises three fundamental questions: (1) How serious are the deficiencies? (2) Should the U.S. change current plans and use the B-1B bomber as a standoff bomber carrying cruise missiles rather than as a penetrating bomber? (3) What enhancements should the Congress fund to improve the B-1B as either a penetrating bomber or as a standoff bomber? Illustrations.
Author: Thomas Withington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782006885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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The development of the B-1B Lancer bomber was difficult to say the least. Originally conceived to fulfill a USAF requirement for an Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft, the original B-1A concept aircraft was accused of being a white elephant, capable of performing nothing which could not be achieved at less financial and human expense than an intercontinental ballistic missile. Cancelled by the Carter administration and finally commissioned by President Reagan as the modified B-1B, the Lancer began its duties as a nuclear-armed bomber in the mid-1980s. The end of the Cold War intervened and the jet was removed from its nuclear missions as a result of arms control legislation. However, the 1990s saw the metamorphosis of the Lancer into a potent conventional weapons carrier which has seen action in Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan. The Lancer has proved its critics wrong in demonstrating its use as a highly flexible and hard-working bomber, able to undertake diverse missions ranging from CAS to the targeting of weapons-of-mass-destruction installations.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428944761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: United States
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Construction
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Author: United States. Department of the Air Force
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Category : Military education
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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