The huge swing-wing airplane is nothing if not flexible — canceled, revived, converted from nuclear strike plane to conventional bomber and then to flying arsenal for the GPS-guided bombs on which ground troops fighting for their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria often rely.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The B-1 bomber: The underappreciated workhorse of America’s air wars
December 30, 2015 at 10:15 a.m. EST