How The US Air Force Added 15 Years To The B-1B Lancer’s Life In Just 22 Days Per Jet

And yet another move to extend the retirement timeline of one of its Cold War airframes, the US Air Force has pushed out the decommissioning timeline for the Rockwell B-1B Lancer supersonic bombers to 2040 or longer. The delayed fate of the ‘Bone,’ as the B-1 is known, is thanks to a modernization program called the B-1 Embracing Agile Scheduling Team, or BEAST.