Rockwell B-1 Lancer "The Bone" | The Evolution Of The Supersonic Bomber | Upscaled Documentary

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[@maineman11]

Only the first 29 minutes is about the B1B. Therefore this video gets a thumbs down.

[@hotrod7938]

I'm sitting looking at three of them 1/4 mile away while watching this 👍

[@Dronescapes]

wow, you are lucky! Where are you located?

[@hotrod7938]

@@Dronescapes Davis Monthan AFB boneyard

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Thanks, cool 👍

[@Dronescapes]

I read that is off limits right now. It would be cool to visit

[@hotrod7938]

@@Dronescapes shut down for COVID. The post commander has not reopened it.

[@kennethlane3896]

Amazing presentation. What an air war. It took an awful lot of fortitude and moral fiber to be an airman. I was stationed in Germany 71-73 and been to some of the locations mentioned here.

[@dennyhooper8987]

I was working on a Williams Transco pipeline project just past the end of the air base in Wichita Ks back in early 90’s & got to see a 2 ship emergency egress & climb-out by the B-2 Lancer. It vibrated the ground, & was extremely loud. There were blue shock diamonds coming out of the afterburners 50 or 60 feet behind the engines. I had a smile the rest of the day!!

[@Gorilla_Jones]

One of if not the prettiest aircraft ever made.

[@skeelo69]

My favourite combat aircraft in the US inventory is .... the Bone ..... I was very fortunate to inspect one at very close quarters at RAF Mildenhall, she's a very special machine.

[@Dronescapes]

Indeed she is

[@jonlamontagne]

Please join me in petitioning for a B-1 refit of their avionics, radar, engines, and weapons systems being modernized. This would end up changing its designation. No longer the days of the B-1Bs from the upgrade forward they would bare the designation of the B-1/R.

[@wdukes50]

​@@Dronescapes why is half the video on the b17 and dont give no bullshit excuses

[@ravensrulzaviation]

I love this BEAST, no 2 planes have made such a lasting impression as the b52 and the Lancer

[@anydaynow01]

That B-17 bit should have been it's own video, what a great documentary!

[@Dronescapes]

👍

[@scottmattern482]

My friend's dad ran a training simulator facility for the b1 at the AF base near where I grew up. I got to play/try/train (not sure what the correct term is) on the sim one time. We couldn't use the hydraulics, but it was a blast being in a full mock up of a real jet. I even landed without crashing or over running the runway on the first try. Granted, I played a lot of Microsoft flight sim at the time and he set me up for a straight in approach. A couple years later, my friend's dad flew a b1 over the NFC championship game. Another time, a summer afternoon, right before baseball practice, the loudest noise I have ever heard went off. It wasn't the sound of a loud jet, more like a bomb detonated. Turns out somebody flying a b1 broke the sound barrier by accident over our town, as was explained on the local news that night. Going to the airshows and being that close to the flight line with a b1 demonstrating a takeoff and feeling the noise through your whole body. Those are the most memorable experiences with this airplane I have had, but the b1 has been an oddly large influence on me, a random civilian.

[@bbrewer5]

I spent the entirety of 2011 at a certain airforce base in the middle east. My TOC (I was Army) was right next to the runway, where these took off and landed every few hours. They are so loud on takeoff, they stop any/all conversation until they are a couple miles away. They make near empty/empty pop/soda cans dance around on tables kind of loud.

[@darknessesdarknesses2492]

I used to work on them. Great plane to learn on. They are VERY labor intensive.

[@meikasroom851]

@@darknessesdarknesses2492 swept wings 🥴

[@Mrbfgray]

Lot like a Harley Davison, most self centered machine ever made. 😄

[@jaybee9269]

The white B-1A was a gorgeous machine.

[@bennymutant]

especially in that opening picture

[@ammomeister]

The first time I saw the B-1 is in a TV show...Six Million Dollar Man back in the mid 70s.

[@jaybee9269]

@@ammomeister >> I remember that show too! I’m old now, lol.

[@christopherfranklin1881]

@@jaybee9269 Majors is now 83. Will turn 84 on 23 April 2023. Hang in there fellow old guy.

[@blueinc-p7l]

@@bennymutant what

[@MeyerBen27]

1:07:29 on powdered eggs: during hurricane sandy i had no power/heat/hot water for 12 days and lost most of my groceries. I was on the South shore of Long Island. Got powdered eggs from a person driving round giving out food. I cooked them up for us and used spices and salsa to make them nice and they were SO GOOD after eating peanut butter and cracker sandwiches for 3 days straight lol

[@edwardbroadnaxjr2592]

Thanks for paving the way for new war fighters! 82nd Airborne Division All the Way! 101st never stop being brave! Hooah to all our heroes past and present!

[@davidrhine9874]

The "Bonus" B-17 video has some great photos I haven't seen before. Awesome! I recently learned that we had the capability to equip the P-47 with drop tanks as early as the summer of 42 but the "Bomber Mafia" generals didn't think it necessary. In fact, in 1939 Hap Arnold ordered that no fighters would have drop tanks and no money would be used in the development. However, because the Navy was interested in drop tanks, and manufacturers saw their usefulness, they were developed and available. Thus, the P-47 could have escorted bombers into Germany no later than January of 1943. Later in the war and just after, they claimed they didn't have a long range fighter escort until the P-51 was equipped with the Merlin. This was a propaganda lie to cover their collective arses! I grew up believing this and it shows up in this video too. It's amazing how well they covered this up. Here is the video with proof of it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3SvkmNtbdtpb80 This also happened when I also discovered that when you analyze things, the Sherman gets an undeserved bad rap. Yes, it had vulnerabilities and was at a disadvantage in tank on tank duels. But overall, it was a great tank considering all variables.

[@dennyhooper8987]

Greg’s airplanes & automobiles you tube channel has a great episode series covering the P-47 Thunderbolt & he discuses this very issue. You are absolutely correct. Peoples egos got other people killed flying B-17’s without fighter escort.

[@GravityV2R]

History Hit on youtube has a great episode on the Sherman. They go so far as to say that from an overall view, the Sherman was the best tank in WW2. Their points to backup that claim are very good, and ones I've not heard before.

[@scotthaddad563]

I like to listen to vids of this type as I nod off to sleep. Here lately the ads are longer and longer. I usually listen to ads and don’t skip but they are ridiculously long now and I have to skip them. I mean they will go on for thirty or more minutes. The folks making the ads are taking advantage of those who actually watch/listen to them. This is ridiculous!

[@Dronescapes]

Dear Scott, perhaps you don't know that if you have KZbin Premium you will not see (or hear) any ad at all, and that is one of the many perks that KZbin Premium offers :)

[@DragerPilot]

I saw one up close, at least as close as the Air Force would allow to me get at the combined Eglin AFB/Pensacola NAS air show many years ago. What an absolutely astonishing and beautiful aircraft.

[@Dronescapes]

Lucky you! ❤

[@vahtikoira2125]

I watched a B-1 do full afterburner touch and go's late at night from the ramp at Kirtland AFB where I was stationed in the 80's. Awesome sight.

[@frankmitchell2081]

Y'all did a fantastic job on that B-21 I don't believe that theirs a country that can touch simply said brilliant

[@TheUnknowncaller12]

My buddy was a B-52 navigator , he said wherever the B1-B’s went in the world in number, right behind them would be the B-52’s but instead of having bombs they would have all the B1-B’s spare parts inside the B-52s Bomb bay’s lol! What a piece of shit he would say. He always was thankful he was Buff crew!

[@petrofilmeurope]

I worked for the NATO's Northern European Command, Command Control and Information Systems (NEC CCIS) in the mid-nineteen eighties. The manner in which this project is presented mirrors the integrity and seriousness that I encountered during my time as consultant to the Singer-Link flight simulators for the F-16 fighter jets. Thank you from Oslo.

[@Dronescapes]

👍👍🙏🙏

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

To me, the BONE is one of the most beautiful planes ever built.

[@BeExcellent1]

This is such great quality, thank you everyone! 👍🙏

[@grantburris]

Warriors, every single one. I was born in 44 so I, obviously, wasn't there. However, I have had many of the B17 pilots and crew as my customers. I listened attentively as they told me things that had happened. Some of the stories would not be suitable for a movie. I admire them all. The POW's had a rough time after surviving the crashes.

[@BeExcellent1]

From England, our deepest thanks and prayers to our brothers with angel wings from over the pond. It's such a shame our greatest men and efforts are wasted on war 🙏

[@jannerahkamaa1011]

B-1 Lancer is sametime as most beautiful and badass looking plain i have ever seen and my ultimate favorite one❤️🇺🇲

[@Dronescapes]

👍👍

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

Tooling along alone on the interstate through Texas one day I had a B1b go from my left to right very low and very fast and very big. The combination of these three things left an impact. I had grown up around B-52's. My dad worked in Palmdale and Rockwell hired him on to head up the B1b program - which he did. In plant 42. Only when you have one buzz you does it set in: this is a serious weapon.

[@bobk2966]

Our most beautiful military plane, as graceful a look as we will ever get.

[@robertbraun7155]

Absolutely one of the sexiest aircraft to be created.. Besides the SR71. My mother worked for a security contractor at Edward's AFB and did security detail for the Space shuttle in the early days when it would land on Roger's dry lake at Edwards. She was also assigned to a small, non descript building on the corner of 30th street east and avenue P in Palmdale, which at that time was Vought where they built the aft portion of the fuselage. Very fortunate to have grown up in the Antelope Valley at the time..

[@DocShred-u4d]

I was stationed at Pearl Harbor in the late 90's; did a lot of surfing. The "Bone" would occasionally fly into Hickam AFB for fuel or servicing; when they departed, they would fly right over our surf spot...the thing hauls azz. And, it's one of the sexiest airplanes flying. A beast; to say the least.

[@macwizer]

I had the honor of working on the B1 program. B1-a retrofit. B1B - 9 upgrade. Worked for John piers and Joe Goss in program management

[@JamesRice-wx8jb]

The B1 is like the best looking model on the runway one day and then winning an MMA title match the next day

[@wiseGuy255]

beautiful aircraft! I sat in the cockpit of every bone working in Palmdale for Rockwell.

[@Dronescapes]

No way! Please feel free to share more

[@Simon-jj2pu]

30:29 maybe the old RAF Glatton with the Conington All Saints Church in the background. The runways are still there, a memorial is in the church and the airfield is used for small private planes and lessons

[@Dronescapes]

Thanks for the very informative comment Simon

[@henrycorvinus4045]

These guys in the B-17 bomber squadrons were God blessed Heroes!!!!!

[@sunspiral79]

Man..this has got to be one of the most beautiful aircraft ever made

[@Dronescapes]

👍

[@micahcastillo9113]

The Bone is one of the most beautiful and lethal aircraft ever built. Canceled by commie Carter in ‘77, it was resurrected by President Reagan as the B-1B to bring strength and clout to the United States military once again. I had a good friend who’s dad was one of the test pilots for the B-1A program. Long live the Bone. 🤙

[@Dronescapes]

❤👍

[@bob19611000]

Carter knew about the B-2's development and the need for stealth over speed for penetration purposes. If the B-1A had been continued its ECM spine (the main physical appearance difference) would light up radar and it would never "penetrate" the Soviet's airspace. This along with the development/deployment of Cruise Missiles made at least that version a useless money drain. Granted the B-1B would / was never called on to penetrate a sophisticated air defense system it did excel at the role of loitering and dropping conventual bombs.. The B-1A was to be a strategic nuclear bomber going up against the Soviets and as such would have been worthless and Carter (being a military man which Reagan was not) knew it.

[@Dronescapes]

@@bob19611000 very interesting information. Thank you for contributing Bob

[@micahcastillo9113]

@@bob19611000 With all due respect, Carter saw the entire military as a whole as a useless money drain.

[@sjd7188]

@@bob19611000 all good accurate points, to add to it the B1 has faced high operational costs its entire career. This is why the plane it was intended to replace is still in service and getting up grades when the Bone will go to the boneyard.

[@MichaelPuig658]

The crew cabin ejection module was copied from Genetal Dynamics's F-111 not the "F-117" (which was manufactured by Lockheed Martin)

[@christopherfranklin1881]

I also caught this mistake. It just jumped out at me. I worked on F-111 aircraft when they came in for a depot overhaul at McClellan AFBin California. The F-111 crew escape module limitations was probably used for a base module for the B-1. As mentioned in the video, the B-1 module was bigger and heavier. It had to carry 4 crew members. The F-111 module did not have much "spare room" in it for any peripheral equipment. I am just assuming the B-1 would be similar enough to have the same limitations.

[@RayBecker]

Even I, a Navy man can truly appreciate the Bone. That plane is scary. If a Bone crosses the border on a mission, it's already too late to do anything about it. Next to the A-10, the Bone is the finest bomber we've ever developed. Even Russia tried to copy it. Well, Russia copies everything we have. You don't hear this plane when it is approaching at 800 MPH at 200 ft. You'll hear it on egress along with lot's of loud explosions and there's not a damned thing anybody can do about it. Great plane!

[@jamesomalley3566]

Russia never copied this bomber, you are not very knowledgeable at all. The Russian tu 160 is almost twice the size and twice as fast as the b1 bomber. 🤣. Nor does the b1 hardly ever fly at 800mph at low altitude because it will run out of fuel. It usually flies around 550 mph and would be easily shot down by modern air defense.

[@steveandrushko75]

Outstanding video

[@ThunderKat]

13:16 What's that button for?

[@henrypena2547]

❤Great Documentary

[@karenrhoads1598]

being able to see these old films & photos and hear the stories of the men who piloted these planes makes me feel so fortunate that I was an Air Force brat

[@Dronescapes]

👍👍

[@davinnolan160]

Definitely good lines technology and effectiveness love that plane serious payload advantage over most

[@bjbeardse]

Bone, gotta love it. The upscaling AI really didn't like the original video.

[@johnforealdoe8999]

Probably the most perfect aircraft ever built

[@brendanwood1540]

@25:07 What language is on the red sign located on the left hand side of the image under the word "ATTENTION".

[@x-movieclips]

what an amazing video

[@Dronescapes]

👍🙏

[@sa5cha63]

Looks pretty beautiful

[@Dronescapes]

It is!

[@Cars-N-Jets]

The Bone is simply beautiful❤

[@maskman1980]

Thank you, guys. I hope we don’t screw up the freedom that you gave your lives for.

[@jeffheupel9173]

That stealthy flat black, badass.

[@markrichards9646]

Good video. Really should have split it in two through. The first 30 minutes is about the B-1 but the remaining hour is about the B-17 and the missions it flew. No further mention of the B-1.

[@brianv1988]

I wish they would have kept the high speed of it and added the stealth characteristics to it on top of that it would make it 10 times cooler in my eyes

[@christopherfranklin1881]

In my 20+ years in the Pentagon I don't believe I have seen a requirements document requesting that the proposed aircraft must " be cool."

[@brianv1988]

@@christopherfranklin1881 well I'm a dumb civilian that's how we think LOL we like cool stuff even if it's not practical

[@jamesomalley3566]

It's a good looking bomber, it's a shame the original high speed and high altitude performance capabilities were not kept which ultimately doomed this platform. Plus the TU 160 is TWICE as fast and has longer range and size.

[@Jacksonflax]

"High speed high altitude" was no longer viable and that's why they changed it to be a low level penetration bomber. They traded off the (now useless) high altitude performance and instead made it an absolute monster on the deck. Too low to worry about SAMs, Too fast to worry about MANPADs. It can stay on course and hug the ground at less than 100 feet with no input from the pilot whatsoever.

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

This thing is a lethal weapon for sure

[@lightningmcqueen181]

Unbelievable..@ 23:30 3 inert Parachute payload bombs dropped within FEET OF EACHOTHER POKING OUT OF THE GROUND LIKE Darts on a board @ a low level release...

[@tonyak8354]

A familiar sight at Dyess AFB. Beauty.

[@tonycroft3428]

Without diminishing the contribution of the US 8th AF in the fight for Europe, this film makes it seem as if the Americans won the war by themselves. I believe that Bomber Command lost over 55,000 men in their campaign against Germany. And yes! I have visited the American Cemetery at Madingley (Cambridge). War is not kind to either side.

[@skeeterbodeen8326]

Lol. Yerp. That’s us Americans…. Publicity hounds.

[@egggofff5057]

In the early 90's, I got to fuel the b1b's. They are a crazy machine and they go fast and take computers to fly them at low level. The human brain can not react fast enough. When they fly fast they came down broken alot. Any plane burns alot of fuel flying low. I fueled the same plane twice in one shift( lots of fuel). I remember doing an air show and saw a b1b flying low and wings sweep back and I immediately fingered my ears. There were many civilians around and I took a finger out and pointed up many times. Most of them looked at me like I was a dummy, till they got hit with a little boom.

[@matthewwainwright8844]

Why is the second half of the video about the b-17 and not the B1????

[@Phoenix37csp]

The intro music at the start could easily be the DCS: B1 Bomber module menu music.

[@texasforever7887]

5:40 their are some skills being used there that where never passed on. Notice how everyone appears to be at least over 50.

[@ekscalybur]

Work on an experimental military project pushing envelopes as hard as the B1A was doing does NOT go to people who just started with the company a few years ago. People with decades of experience was the minimal accepted level for applicants.

[@texasforever7887]

@@ekscalybur what I was trying to point out was the fact that those precision fabricating skills those men of their generation possessed on the whole where never passed on. We became reliant on computer-aided design in the 80s. As an example according to NASA the Saturn 5 could not be reproduced today. The skill sets required for many of the one of a kind custom parts no longer exist and the cost and time that would be needed to relearn them is cost prohibited.

[@saul890]

B-1B Lancer is my favorite stealth fighter plane ✈️

[@us1fedvet]

The Air Force should’ve replaced the entire B52 fleet with them in the 80s-90s.

[@Dronescapes]

👍

[@Milkmans_Son]

It's only money.

[@Dronescapes]

@@Milkmans_Son that is definitely (always) a very important factor

[@us1fedvet]

@@Milkmans_Son and…..?

[@ekscalybur]

@@Milkmans_Son The attitude of it's only money is why the USSR crumbled to dust. They spent themselves into oblivion over the course of many decades.

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this powerful bombardiers

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

Wait a minute. In 1964 we had the B70 Valkyrie. A mach 3+ cruising strategic nuclear bomber. Nope, sorry. No need for that. Years later - we have to slow down a smaller lesser bomber to get it to work...because THAT'S something we CAN do! Sad. Why not make a new stealth B-70 monster?

[@georgebarnes8163]

Speed is no longer important which is why the B-21 is so slow

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

​@@georgebarnes8163Check out what speed did at Managua Intl Airport with an SR-71 fly-by. The children as a shield wretches of the Soviet Union and the scum of the Sandinista FSLN had parked the MiG's of Soviet Communism at the civilian facility. ALL of the soviet air defenses in the hands of the 3rd-world banana republic piss hole Nicaraguan idiot losers couldn't get a lock, couldn't turn or track or move fast enough and were shocked and surprised by it and shown who was DADDY. As the bird shed altitude to get REAL up close and personal and catch a photo of every single rivet on the MiG's: It's supersonic shockwave cone had been used as a weapon. It blasted all the glass out of the civilian facility. Some civilians were bloodied-up a bit from flying broken glass. Shouldn't have had those MiG's parked there. Beats taking the BOMBS you're begging for. In other words: MOVE those MiGs. Go home, Ivan. You don't want this embarrassment here, now...not like this.

[@georgebarnes8163]

@@skeggjoldgunnr3167 LOL, the SR-71 is not a bomber, it is a pointless relic from the 1960s

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

@@georgebarnes8163 I'm over here scanning my last comment for the part where I said the SR-71 was a bomber. Good gracious. And the point made about speed having great value? lost? Completely? I can see that. Congress seems to be of the same opinion. Most of the time.

[@grahamhayward4740]

To be accurate a german Adolf Buseman invented the swept wing, however Barnes Wallis a British scientist invented variable geometry used on the BONE, great video the most impressive aircraft.

[@gayprepperz6862]

Congress always approves a project, and then starts to cut the funding while under development. Not surprisingly, Congress then complains about cost over runs.

[@Dronescapes]

😬😮

[@Dethfeast]

I think the B-1 was a massive disappointment given the money invested. Of the 100 produces, there are less than half left, and it never really displaced the B-52. In fact the B-52s are expected to be in service until 2050, long after the B-1s are retired in the 2030s. I'm not sure Carter was wrong to kill the program.

[@macwizer]

It was not failings of the ACFT it was a fucked up airforce management. The only failings was in the defensive avionics a horribly mismanaged part of the program

[@scottl.1568]

My favorite!!

[@borcemiovski]

Tu160 and B1 are most beautiful bombers

[@micstonemic696stone]

the B1 lancer was supersonic but the B1-B was not just the other day I see a video saying it would max at 700mph at height the reason for this is when put back into service they removed the engine intake doors and a turbo-fan cannot intake mach 1 air, WHY was this done ?

[@mcamp9445]

B-1Blocker can go Mach 1.2 on the deck

[@micstonemic696stone]

@@mcamp9445 that is true I didn't say that they couldn't I think it is fine aircraft but when they made the Black b1b they removed these blocker doors meaning the turbo fans cannot operate in supersonic air that's all

[@micstonemic696stone]

Also the design is copied in the former Soviet Union NATO name blackjack but real name is the tupolev 160 their name for it's as the White Swan it is that big with the Wings swept forward for low speed handling it is just 4 m less than that of the B-52 I believe my information is correct as I looked this up from a few sources and like the B-52 all the Russian bear it can fly all the way to target and then all the way home I even watched Putin have a fly in the captain seat and launching a standoff missile out of some abandoned flats

[@decler-gt7nu]

Its a beautiful air plane 'That's the epitamay of a heavy bomber 'I think the FIII was a real sexy looking machine, I remember my farther took me to the air show in Canberra back in the 1970 's ,wow it whent past and broke the sound barrier it was a massive boom , then one day in the city centre you could hear this incredible screaming noise WICH sounded so bad arse then they past over the city centre about 200 feet high and every one jumped out of there PANTS haha like I reckon they were going about 500 knots you could actually see the underneath the plane ,my Lord it was thunderous two of them 'I'll never forget it,like it put chills down your bank,

[@brianargo1659]

At 10:30 was that guy in the green jacket and Orange pants Carol Shelby?😂😂 R.I.P. BIG DOG👍

[@damien5748]

Sorry but it did NOT replace the B-52...B-52s are STILL in service.

[@ryen7512]

no, but its much more capable than the B-52 tbh.

[@carlitosmedina7546]

@Reid James I mean it has a bigger payload then the b-52 I’m pretty sure

[@JacobF369]

That’s what the initial purpose was of the B-1 was to eventually replace the aging B-52 fleet but the costs turned out to be to high so the us army only order a certain number of them

[@kooperativekrohn819]

@@carlitosmedina7546 37,000 pounds for B1 , B52 can carry over 70’000 , you can also mount large external payloads , the dropped the X-15 test rocket jet from a B52 wing

[@jaynicew]

@@kooperativekrohn819This is wrong… the B1 has a bigger payload and is much faster… The B52 just cost less to maintain

[@gandalfgreyhame3425]

The B-1B air intakes were re-designed to have a serpentine route to the front fans of the jet engines, which are major radar reflectors, so that radar waves would not reflect directly off the front fan blades. This is one of the major reasons that stealth planes tend to not fly as fast as the older 3rd generation planes which generally had huge air intakes to allow their jet engines to such as much air in as possible to produce as much thrust as possible at supersonic speeds. This was probably the major reason for the reduction in speed of the B-1B.

[@victory-march]

Such a powerful plane

[@jhendricks203]

WE, the USA had many supersonic bombers in 1959, oh you weren''t born yet.....

[@joeg5414]

Music that comes on in between the talking is ridiculously loud and unnecessary 🤷‍♂️

[@MartinWillett]

I can imagine RAF pilots sniggering with that image of flying over the sea at less than 200 feet.

[@barryklinedinst6233]

The C5 in this video is at the museum at Dover Afb in Delaware.

[@genesauter4755]

The valkire i thought was a better plane 🤔 😅

[@maineman11]

Only the first 29 minutes is about the B1B. Therefore this video gets a thumbs down.

[@Irish_For_Life1842]

I come here for the B-1 and there is a B-17 too? That doesn't make sense. Just have a B-17 video and a B-1 Video.

[@mraudio]

Good content, but this feels like two independent videos stitched together into one very long one...

[@phantom7531]

I think the bone still has legs if we ever get those hyper sonic online the bone will be a great delivery vehicle for those so I don't think she ready to be put to the pasture yet I think she still got alot of life left in her . she is an amazing plane .

[@myriaddsystems]

Even massive investments pay off in terms of primary, secondary and tertiary benefits- contributing to overall economy

[@zeroelus]

The video misses one key thing, although it correctly mentions that it was Reagan that revived the project, from what I've read one of his key campaign promises was that they'd revived the bomber that had been cancelled and would bring those jobs "back" to California, because when pressed as to why the project was scrapped by Carter, he gave no real satisfying answer, but did eventually mention that it was because they where working on more advanced bombers, which, based on the landslide loss didn't really do much for his claims. But he indeed was correct. With the advent of better radars and look down-shoot down capability, going in at low altitude was not the way to breach air defenses as they claimed, the B-1 while a (gloriously noisy) marvel it was made for a type of strategy that wouldn't have been as successful as then claimed. Stealth was the way to go, the "hopeless diamond" Have Blue already had proven this 3 years before Reagan and Carter debated on this, and Tacit Blue would eventually influence what would be the advanced bomber program that would result in the B-2, an aircraft that would do the mission stated in this video that the B-52 couldn't: penetrate enemy air defenses undetected. Thankfully this is a mission that it never did during the cold war. The irony of the B-52 finally getting re-engined and looking like it will be in service for 100 years while it's replacements get phased out is...quite something.

[@brownedward93]

The b1 part was good

[@maus3454]

As of 30:13 it is all about the B-17

[@yuvanbaldwinew9282]

They used that similar rig for the b2 spirit and night halk ect.

[@stevesimpson9411]

Lots of the of the B17 footage mistakenly includes Boeing xb-15 footage.

[@01nmuskier]

28 minutes of B1 history. 57 minutes of B17 history.

[@104thDIVTimberwolf]

Ironic that the last Bone is expected at AMARC by 2030, while BUFFs will remain in service past their centennial in the 2050s.

[@Sajuuk]

Why is only 1/3 of this video about the B1and the last 2/3 about a completely different aircraft, the B17? 🤔

[@ravensrulzaviation]

Oh, FYI, I was told, maybe not true, but the designs of the current drones without wings was based off of this design.

[@TriPham-j3b]

SDI must keep the Bone as strategic spectrum...and more radio telescope and electrodynamic MRI light to mater man-made materials science

[@leemcclelland2618]

I heard/read that over the last 50-80 years, enemies have experienced the weight of American military strikes from the hands and fingers of aircraft, and helicopter pilots. We try to not send soldiers on the ground to do the job. That leads to far more American deaths, and loss of popular support.

[@ravensrulzaviation]

A supersonic almost stealth like Destroyer of Cities that you can hear after you have already been hit.

[@sarge420]

I witnessed a B-1B fly by at about 300mph, at 200ft off the deck at TTR (1985). What an amazing site. Ret USAF

[@Dronescapes]

Thank you for your service 🙏

[@allenward758]

4:40 General Dynamics F117?? I think you meant F111. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@stevenlarratt3638]

Half way through and more on other bombers than what i am here to view.