Air Force demonstrates ‘unpredictability’ amid pandemic
with B-1 bomber sortie from US to Japan
By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: April 22, 2020
"A B-1B Lancer bomber flew on Wednesday from the continental United States to Japan, where it teamed up with 15 Japanese fighter jets to demonstrate the Air Force’s recent shift to a more unpredictable global strategic bomber presence.
The Lancer flew 30 hours round-trip from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., to Misawa Air Base, meeting up with seven Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s and eight F-15s, the Air Force said in a news release Wednesday.
That group was joined by six Misawa-based F-16 Fighting Falcons.
The aircraft crews trained over Draughon Range near Misawa as part of a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. Strategic Command joint bomber task force, the release said.
Last week, five B-52H bombers flew from Guam to their home station in Minot Air Force Base, N.D., ending the Air Force’s six-month rotations of bombers through the island that had been taking place since 2004."
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