{"id":156629,"date":"2024-12-11T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-b-1-lancer-beast-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T19:00:19","slug":"5-fast-facts-on-the-b-1-lancers-beast-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=156629","title":{"rendered":"5 Fast Facts On The B-1 Lancer&#8217;s BEAST Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The swept-wing             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"634531\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Rockwell B-1 Lancer<\/span><\/span> (called &#8220;Bone&#8221;) is         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036692\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-role-strategic-bombers-b-1-lancer-b-2-spirit-play\/\" >the United States&#8217; largest payload strategic bomber and its only supersonic bomber<\/a><\/span> (the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2024411\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/rockwell-lancer-top-speed-guide\/\" >B-1 Lancer has a top speed of Mach 1.2<\/a><\/span>). It was built to replace (or partially replace) the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> B-52 Stratofortress, but it will be the first strategic bomber to be retired as the B-21 Raider starts to enter service. Still, the Lancer and more life in it yet and has continued to receive upgrades with the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afgsc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/3549680\/7th-bw-rolls-out-first-beast-modified-b-1b\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >BEAST program<\/a> keeping it lethal until the 2040s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The B-1 is receiving its BEAST upgrades as fast as possible and these will keep it lethal into the 2040s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1455,412,7456,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bomber","category-military","category-rockwell-b-1-lancer","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156630,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156629\/revisions\/156630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}