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Deployed B-1s join U.S. forces, JSDF for Exercise Keen Sword
B-1 bombers from the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed to Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, joined U.S. forces and the Japan Self-Defense Force for Exercise Keen Sword 17, a joint and bilateral exercise held biennially off the coast of Japan. Keen Sword tests Japan-U.S. interoperability in a number of mission areas to include integrated air and missile defense as well as amphibious operations. Editor’s Note: Information for this story was compiled from DVIDS and other military websites.
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11/18
2016
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Joint training exercise focuses on personnel recovery during Combat Raider
As Combat Raider continues, participants conducted personnel recovery training Nov. 16, 2016, just north of Belle Fourche, SD., in the Powder River Training Complex. The event started with a show-of-force by two B-1 Bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base guided by joint tactical controllers from the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Once the area was clear, a helicopter from the South Dakota National Guard’s 189th Aviation Regiment came to evacuate the simulated causalities.
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11/17
2016
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Operations on Korean Peninsula nothing new for B-1
While the world was abuzz touting the recent landing of a B-1 bomber on the Korean Peninsula as the first such appearance by the highly versatile, long-range conventional bomber in that region in the last 20 years, those who fly the aircraft state that is not completely accurate.
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10/17
2016
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Ellsworth B-1 team wins LeMay Award
The desert sun is sleeping, and the cool, night sky is empty above Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, on Dec. 19, 2015. A B-1 bomber aircrew from the 37th Bomb Squadron from Ellsworth is carrying out their final preparations for a bombing operation. The mission: destroy oil fields that are supporting Al-Raqqa, the sixth largest city in Syria and headquarters for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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10/14
2016
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EA-18G Growlers soar in PRTC while training at Ellsworth
This summer, U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers joined B-1 bombers in the skies around Ellsworth Air Force Base for electronic attack training in June, and now again July 11 through 22, 2016. This marked the first time the Navy’s Electronic Attack Squadron 129, stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, traveled to Ellsworth to conduct training in its local airspace.
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7/19
2016
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Ellsworth launches for large force exercise in PRTC
B-1 bombers launched from the flightline to participate in a quarterly Large Force Exercise in the Powder River Training Complex March 30-31, 2016.
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4/07
2016
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Lancers execute first-ever Block 16 long-range strike exercise
After more than a decade of performing precision strike operations in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility, the B-1 Lancers have returned home. While U.S. and coalition aircraft step in to continue the air campaign in Iraq and Syria, where B-1s from Dyess and Ellsworth Air Force Bases delivered devastating blows to Daesh forces, the Lancers are stateside, completing the largest fleet sustainment block upgrade in the program's history.
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3/02
2016
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Service members tour B-1 Lancer, learn aircraft’s capabilities
Forty service members received a B-1 Lancer tour as part of a new incentive program Nov. 24 at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The B-1 Lancer is a highly versatile, multi-mission weapon system. The bomber carries the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons of any aircraft in the Air Force inventory; a whopping 48,000 pounds, approximately six
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11/26
2015
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