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unusual facts about B-1 Lancer



Operation Anaconda

Throughout the day, the TACP forward air controllers and Special Forces recce teams that had infiltrated into the area the previous day called in airstrikes from B-1, B-52, F-15, F-18 and F-16 aircraft, inflicting heavy casualties on the Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, but by no means silencing them.


see also

Weapons officer

Weapon systems officer (WSO), either a United States Navy air flight officer directly involved in all air operations and weapon systems of a fighter aircraft or the aft crew member in a United States Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle or B-1 Lancer or a United States Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet