Bombardero B-1B

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Contrato para las computadoras de datos aéreos (17/4/2023): https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/ ... e/3365279/

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Honeywell International Inc., doing business as Honeywell Aerospace, Deer Valley, Phoenix, Arizona, has been awarded a maximum $12,207,394 firm-fixed-price, firm-fixed-quantity contract for B-1B air data computers. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1 (a)(2). This is a three-year, two-month contract with no option periods. The performance completion date is May 1, 2026. Using military service is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2023 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (SPE4A1-22-G-0015).
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Más información sobre los nuevos pilones LAM ("Load Adaptable Modular"): https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-boeing-pylon-b-1/

Desarrollados por Boeing, la USAF ha puesto dinero solo para probarlos. Están pensados para las municiones hipersónicas, pero pueden llevar otras cargas hasta 3.400 kg por estación. En total, se pueden instalar hasta seis por cada B-1B, ya se están probando en estático y en vuelo se hará previsiblemente este verano.

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Que yo recuerde los B1 ya llevaban pilones externos pero se retiraron por un tratado nuclear.No se a cuento viene esto

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Simplemente se cambia el diseño optimizándolo para las nuevas municiones hipersónicas. El diseño antiguo pensado para los AGM-86B: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/usaf-wa ... ardpoints/


El nuevo: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/new-boeing-pylon-b-1/

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El plan de la USAF para mantener al B-1 relevante: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/usaf- ... -credible/

Aug. 7, 2023 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has no set date in mind for retiring the B-1 Lancer, but it does has a multi-pronged approach for keeping the famed bomber credible until the B-21 comes online, focused on:
· Parts obsolescence
· Wear and tear
· Capability for new weapons

Brig. Gen. William Rogers, program executive officer for bombers at AFLCMC, told reporters at the Life Cycle Industry Days conference July 31 the Air Force has dropped its 2018 bomber plan that called for the B-1 and B-2 to retire in the early 2030s, and instead will keep those aircraft viable until the stealthy B-21 is ready to replace them.

The new plan is called a “Bomber Capability Roadmap” and directs investment to combating “obsolescence and diminishing manufacturing sources, which is a key concern of ours on those aging platforms,” Rogers said.
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One such capability may be using the B-1 as a platform for testing hypersonic weapons. Boeing has offered the Air Force a modular pylon system that could enable the B-1 to do just that, potentially reducing the test load on the B-52, which is entering an intense period of testing new radars, communications, navigation, and engines.

“At this point, we’re really working to first prove the engineering and development work to see if it’s really a viable capability for the B-1,” Rogers said. “We’ve been working with Boeing, [which] has an [independent research and development] pylon that we call the Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon.”
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Full-scale structural fatigue testing on a B-1 fuselage carcass and wing is also underway at Boeing’s Tukwila, Wash., facility in order to get ahead of the fleet and see if there are “potential risk areas,” Rogers said. That step that was skipped in the 1980s in the urgency to field the B-1.
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The Air Force also has two B-1 carcasses that have been disassembled at the National Institute of Aviation Research at Wichita State University, Kan., for the purposes of creating digital twins.

“Pretty much all the structural parts” have been scanned twice, Stupic said, to create computer-aided design/digital twins of the B-1 that can help predict structural issues and create a baseline for upgrades.

So far, 4,000 of a planned 51,000 CAD models of the B-1’s structure have been completed, he said.
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Primer vuelo de un B-1B BEAST ("B-1 Embracing Agile Scheduling Team"): https://www.airandspaceforces.com/b-1-l ... odernized/

Oct. 6, 2023 | By David Roza

The 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, launched a B-1B Lancer on Sept. 8 that received a slew of technology upgrades through a new program designed to modernize the aging bomber fleet much faster than usual.
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BEAST shaves two years off the upgrade process, Pope said. Specifically, the upgrades take an average of 22 days to complete, he said. Over the next two years, 22 more B-1s at Dyess will be modernized one at a time.
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AFLMC is also working around measures that were taken to render the B-1’s external hardpoints inoperative under the START treaty, which precluded the B-1 from carrying nuclear weapons like the AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile externally.

Beyond new weapons, a B-1 fuselage and wing are also undergoing full-scale structural fatigue testing at manufacturer Boeing’s facility in Washington state to identify potential risk areas. The Air Force is creating digital twins of the bomber, which should help predict structural issues and serve as a baseline for upgrades.
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https://www.dvidshub.net/news/455195/7t ... ified-b-1b

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, TX, UNITED STATES
10.04.2023
Courtesy Story
7th Bomb Wing Public Affairs
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BEAST was designed to shorten fielding of each system, preserve aircraft availability and ensure compliance with federal government aviation directives.
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The modifications are designed to modernize the aircraft’s Identification Friend or Foe system, provide Link 16 tactical data communications capability and upgrade secure communications systems. The program also updates the aircraft’s defensive avionics system and updates its mass data storage for today’s digital environment.

“BEAST significantly enhances the lethality of the B-1B, surpassing its current capabilities,” said Col. Dan Alford, 7th Operations Group commander. “Our aircrew are excited to get their hands on this new technology that will reduce their workload and allow them to focus on combat employment of the weapon system itself.”
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This modified B-1B is the first of 23 that will undergo modification at Dyess by a contract field team hired specifically for this modification. Under the current construct, all 7th BW aircraft will be completed according to plan and ready for immediate deployment, if called upon.

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Se estrelló un bombardero B1 al aterrizar en la Base de Ellsworth ,sus cuatro tripulantes pudieron abandonar el avión.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/b-1-b ... ellsworth/

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Se estrelló un bombardero B1 al aterrizar en la Base de Ellsworth ,sus cuatro tripulantes pudieron abandonar el avión.

https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/stat ... 9686137120

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Sobre los últimos ataques en Siria e Iraq llevados a cabo sobre todo por una pareja de B-1B: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/us-re ... an-attack/

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In a statement, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said the strikes hit 85 targets at seven facilities. In a subsequent briefing with reporters, National Security Council spokesperson John F. Kirby said four of the facilities were in Syria and three were in Iraq.

Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II, director of the Joint Staff, said fighter aircraft from U.S. Central Command and B-1 bombers flying from the continental U.S. conducted the strikes, deploying more than 125 precision-guided munitions.

“The facilities that were struck included command and control operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces,” a CENTCOM statement added.
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https://twitter.com/ianellisjones/statu ... 6931889164

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B-1B en Morón: https://twitter.com/Gibdan1/status/1771977795683676649

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B-1B recuperado para el sercivio: https://www.twz.com/air/b-1b-lancelot-i ... ve-service