B-1B as the “Trishkin Kaftan” of the American Air Force

By Top War

 

What’s going on in these United States? The complete impression is that the fuses in the heads are burning in bunches. Throughout the week, everyone was unanimously discussing the news that the Russian Nizhny Novgorod Sokol plant had handed over to the Aerospace Forces a batch of overhauled and modernized MiG-31BMs.

There were quite controversial statements regarding the obsolescence, old age of the interceptor, that there were no targets for it (this was especially funny, because for the MiG-31 everything that flies is food) and so on.

What about at that time?

And the Americans themselves are dragging back from a place called the “Bone Yards” (aka the Davis-Monthan storage base in Tucson, Arizona) B-1B Lancer bombers that were placed there “for long-term storage.”

In general, everyone knows what this term means. And where can the planes go from this “storage”. But under the hot Arizona sun, they stand calmly in the desert on the sand and hardly even rust. The desert is still…

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