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To: John S Mosby

That’s wrong. The lancer entered service specifically as a nuclear bomber.


12 posted on 11/03/2017 5:02:18 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: Hugh the Scot
“That’s wrong. The lancer entered service specifically as a nuclear bomber.”

The B-1 was nuclear capable until it wasn't.

The US stripped the B-1s of the equipment necessary to deliver nuclear weapons. That's crazy but that's what has happened according to the reporting I've read.

19 posted on 11/03/2017 6:25:16 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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