B-1 Crews Prep for Anti-Surface Warfare in Latest LRASM Tests | Military.com:
"DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- The Air Force's B-1B Lancer -- in a move that will make it even more lethal -- will be the first aircraft to employ the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), despite the fact that it's a Navy missile.
Why not augment another bomber or fighter to carry it? Because the long-range B-1 already has the capacity, according to Lt. Col. Erick Lord, 9th Bomb Squadron commander.
"We can carry 24 of them," Lord said during a roundtable interview at the base on Dec. 18.
"There's not another jet in the inventory" that can do that, he said.
Military.com sat down with Global Strike Command officials during a trip to the base, and took a ride in the B-1B over training ranges in New Mexico last month."
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