Posted on 10/21/2017 7:20:06 AM PDT by markomalley
Two supersonic bombers reportedly drilled alongside allies in Northeast Asia Saturday, reaffirming U.S. commitment to its partners and sending a message to North Korea and other challengers.
B-1B Lancers, powerful aircraft carrying the largest conventional payload of guided and unguided munitions of any Air Force bomber, departed Andersen Air Force Base in Guam for the Korean Peninsula Saturday. They first joined up with two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s before joining up with two Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K fighters, the Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs Office said in an official statement.
The bombers conducted a flyover during the 2017 Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition at Seoul Airport. Escorted by South Korean fighters, one flew to a low altitude of only around 500 feet. Spectators could hear the roar of the engines and feel the vibration as they passed, a defense ministry official told Yonhap News Agency.
Together with South Korean air force units, the bombers reportedly conducted simulated air-to-surface missile launch drills, according to South Korean media.
“The sequenced flights with Japan and [South Korea] are a demonstration of the strength of the bilateral alliances between U.S. partners and allies,” the Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs Office explained.
U.S. bombers recently participated in an unprecedented nighttime training exercise with South Korean and Japanese strategic air assets near the Korean Peninsula. In the past, these flights were carried out in response to North Korean provocations, such as ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests, but they are now being conducted regularly.
These flights are expected to occur every couple of weeks, officials told Yonhap. North Korea has suggested that it has the right to self-defense, including the right to open fire on American military aircraft. It has not, however, attempted to do so since the country’s foreign minister issued this warning a few weeks ago.
The B-1B Lancers stationed at Andersen Air Force Base support America’s continuous bomber presence in the Asia Pacific. The bombers can reach Korea in two to three hours.
Sometimes this is the only kind of diplomacy that works.
I’ve seen them with afterburner kicked in on night take-off. The vibration and sound is amazing.
Awesome plane. The B-one
Imagine lounging on a remote inlet in Lake Powell.
(Rock canyon and the lake is full) 1998
This B-1 flies over, about 500 ft. off the deck, under full military power.
That’ll wake you up!
Also, quite the sight.
I’ve seen them with afterburner kicked in on night take-off. The vibration and sound is amazing.
Awesome plane. The B-one
President Trump is showing Rocket Man that only he can decide if North Korea survives or not.
Rocket Man is playing the old game and not realizing that there is a new man at the table and he is not bluffing.
Your move Rocket Man, make it good one, you only get one shot.
It’s going to be easier to take the NORKS out BEFORE they get the bomb than after...
New mexico- four corners area: saw a b-1 practicing low flying. It was below mountain top height, then climbed just enough to clear a mountain. Flew past it and disappeared from view. Very impressive.
Is it REALLY possible that folks like saddam and Kim REALLY didn’t/don’t understand the vast, VAST superiority of their enemy?
I remember the original rollout of the
B-1, and the photo article in one of the weakly news mags. They said it had been nicknamed “The Savior”. Because as the awesome weapon was rolled out, several in the crowd muttered, “J_ _ _ _ C_ _ _ _ _!”
I do not encourage profanity, but it DOES speak to the impressiveness of the plane.
We were on an Alaskan cruise and I was looking out the window and I saw something coming towards us really low. I watched as a C-17 comes flying by buzzing the ship. It was so amazing to see something that big flying so low. Best part of the cruise.
Not exactly a B-1 (but close) however....
Back in the day my buddies & I would make week long camping trips into Bruneau Canyon in southern Idaho.
One evening while sitting around the campfire the pilot of an F-111 out of Mountain Home AFB decided buzzing our encampment was the fun thing to do - in total darkness.
Twin tails from the afterburners streaked over the treetops followed by the big boom...... all done at the bottom of a steep canyon, on burner, in the dark.
On the way home when driving up on the desert floor, F-4’s did the same thing to us. I remember the windshield was filled up with two afterburners - that’s how low they flew!!
Months later I had the chance to converse with one of these pilots at the Mountain Home air show. I told him of my experience and he laughed.......said they love to buzz the wilderness folks. The equipment in the planes could see the campfires 40 miles out.....said they use the canyon for training & fun all the time.
The last time I saw a B-1 was the day they flew circles around Baghdad during the ‘surge’ in 2007.
They already HAVE the bomb and are probably building lots of them. They don’t have a reliable long-range delivery vehicle...unless you count a merchant ship sailing into a harbor.
Gravitas!
Oh, like OUR politicians don’t believe their own lies!
Neither Saddam nor Idi Amin nor Rocketman have/had ANYONE who ever told them they were wrong.
(At least not twice...)
I dont think you’d find an american congressman who thought China was no threat at all in a war.
Though I’m sure that might be a few dems who think that.
On other things, yes. Their heads are in the ground willfully with their better part sticking up.
“That’s a negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full.”
At the Airsho in Midland, TX last month, I got to see a F/A 18 Super Hornet demonstration. Just ONE Super Hornet, mind you. It was the most awesome thing I’ve seen in decades, as the sound just completely filled the sky in all directions. I can only imagine the sound of multiple B1s.
A lot of US politicians thought China was an ally.
We even stationed US troops on the Chinese mainland (my dad for one).
And these days they have most favored nation trading status...
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