According to the United States " air force times " the website reported on June 9, air force whole world hits headquarters to announce, general of beautiful air man is all 60 B-1B " lancer " strategic bomber this day has total grounding of aircraft, in a few days before, bomber of supersonic speed of a B-1B is in the United States native land Texas crash-land of Mi Delan International Airport, subsequently of different common is, u.S. Army air man did not open port to leave machine, however prang cockpit mouth flees for his life, will look from inside the photograph, 4 flee for his life there is to be blown up at least in cabin, this explains the condition is very critical at that time, so produced what job after all, make an U.S. Army so helter-skelter and is grounding of aircraft all Where is B-1B bomber?
Air force expert expresses, the ejection seat of B-1B bomber appears catastrophe failure, bring about air man to be when occurrence emergency cannot eject flees for his life, second incident is here medium, after B-1B tightens urgent crash as a result of breakdown, must blow up plane coping flee for one's life hatch is urgent withdraw, beautiful expert expresses, this is very serious hidden danger, besides training a lieutenant general to endanger pilot life daily, if be in war below the case that hits by firepower of hostile air defence, ejection seat is out of order suddenly however, this will be brought about undoubtedly machine the serious consequence that destroys a person to die.
According to the report, although this accident is medium, 4 all air man did not die, just one person got flesh wound, and bomber also did not carry any ammunitions at that time, but this still lets U.S. Army Jing give a suit cold sweat, because a such tremendous bomber produce the word of the accident, it is the fuel that carry also can cause massive explosion merely.
Expert introduction, b-1B is an U.S. Army the bomber of a strategy of current and special rely heavily on sb's service, the U.S. Army has 155 bomber at present, include 75 60 B-1B, B-52H and 20 B-2, among them B-2 is an U.S. Army most Jin Gui's strategy hits a weapon, be not as a last resort when won't employ easily, and B-52H criterion " cheap is quite old " , although the near future appears in airspace of East Asia periphery again and again, but this kind of flight the slow, large bomber that is without concealed body ability is in war very easy by down.
And B-1B bomber differs completely, this bomber has capacity of supersonic speed flight, the oldest rate achieves 1.25 horses conspicuous, still have proper concealed body design, in addition the load of B-1B is very big also, can carry more than 40 tons weapon ammunition, it is a bomber with U.S. Army the strongest firepower, the range of this bomber exceeds 12000 kilometers, can span from American mainland area of East Asia of Pacific Ocean non-stop flight to launchs air attack, what make a person vigilant more is, b-1B all the year round deploy is in the Anderson air base of Guam, distance Asia mainland has 2000 much kilometers only here, once erupt,conflict, b-1B affirms go into battle of meeting a suit of armour, from the point of this kind of angle, below the case that shows body East Asia often in B-52H, b-1B encounters the serious problem of total grounding of aircraft, will affect integral position of the U.S. Army greatly undoubtedly.