B-1 Lancer (bomber)/Related Articles

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Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. ^[e]
United States Air Force [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces responsible for land-based aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles ^[e]

Twelfth Air Force [r]: United States Air Force intermediate command responsible for Air Combat Command fighter and bomber aircraft in the western United States, and is also the Air Component for the Unified Combatant Command, United States Southern Command ^[e]
- 7th Bomb Wing [r]: An active-duty unit under the U.S. Twelfth Air Force for training and readiness; flies B-1 Lancer heavy bombers detached as required to Unified Combatant Commands; based at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. ^[e]
  - Dyess Air Force Base [r]: U.S. Twelfth Air Force base near Abilene, Texas; home unit is the 7th Bomb Wing flying B-1 Lancer bombers and a major tenant unit is the 317th Airlift Group with C-130 Hercules transports ^[e]
- 28th Bomb Wing [r]: An active-duty unit under the U.S. Twelfth Air Force for training and readiness; flies B-1 Lancer heavy bombers detached as required to Unified Combatant Commands; home base at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota ^[e]
  - Ellsworth Air Force Base [r]: Located in South Dakota , home of the 28th Bomb Wing, subordinate to the U.S. Twelfth Air Force for training and readiness; it flies B-1 Lancer heavy bombers along with the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. ^[e]

ALE-47 [r]: An intelligent countermeasures dispenser for military aircraft, which can receive commands directly from warning receivers, and dispense expendable radar and infrared decoys, as well as manage a retrievable decoy towed via an fiber optic cable ^[e]
ALE-55 [r]: An active electronic attack remote device targeted at radar, spooled out by an AN/ALE-47 dispenser, which can run through the flame of an afterburner and, at the end of its tether, act as a deceptive decoy trackbreaker or a seductive sacrificial decoy ^[e]
APQ-181 [r]: Emphasing low probability of intercept, the active radar on the stealthy, radar-evading B-2 Spirit bomber ^[e]
Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: Doctrine for deconflicting and activelu controlling all forms of kinetic and nonkinetic fires support to troops close enough to the enemy that there is a significant danger of fratricide or degrading friendly capabilities ^[e]
Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [r]: The primary communications system used for sharing tactical information internally, and among NATO, Australia, and other U.S. allies ^[e]

GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb [r]: A relatively small U.S. guided bomb, several of which can be carried in a single rack position intended for Mark 8x series conventional bombs; with its accurate guidance, and the use of a new explosive, AFX-757, which puts higher pressure into a smaller radius, it reduces collateral damage while allowing more targets to be hit in a sortie ^[e]
Mark 8x series conventional bomb [r]: The main family of U.S. high-explosive unguided gravity bombs, to which guidance kits such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition or PAVEWAY laser guidance can be attached ^[e]
Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard Mark 8x "dumb bomb", or ballistic equivalent, into a precision-guided munition, using inertial navigation enhanced with GPS satellite navigation ^[e]
AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines ^[e]
AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: A U.S. precision-guided munition, originally an unpowered guided bomb with much greater gliding range than the cheaper Joint Direct Attack Munition; powered variants with more extensive capabilities are in development ^[e]
Wind-Corrected Munitions Dispenser [r]: Add brief definition or description