{"id":356314,"date":"2026-01-27T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-b-1-bombers-left\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:00:18","slug":"how-many-b-1-bombers-are-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=356314","title":{"rendered":"How Many B-1 Bombers Are Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037181\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-b-1-lancer-beast-upgrades\/\" >Rockwell B-1B Lancer is one of the most iconic aircraft in the United States Air Force<\/a><\/span>. The only other supersonic variable sweep wing bombers in the world are the Soviet Tu-22M3 and Tu-160 (both in service with the Russian Air Force). At its peak, the US Air Force had around 100 B-1Bs in service, but this was reduced to 62, and that number was sustained for many years until 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 45 B-1B bombers remain in service, giving the USAF 45% of its peak strength, while another 27 are in varying condition in storage.<\/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":[396,7456,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-rockwell-b-1-lancer","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356314","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=356314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356316,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356314\/revisions\/356316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}