{"id":852,"date":"2015-04-09T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2015-04-09T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:59:45","slug":"us-air-force-plans-to-upgrade-the-b-1b-aircraft-in-the-fighterinterceptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force plans to upgrade the B-1B aircraft in the Fighter\/Interceptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1BR_090415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1BR_090415.jpg\" alt=\"US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1BR_090415\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1BR_090415.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1BR_090415-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1BR_090415-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe B-1R is a proposed upgrade of existing B-1B aircraft. The B-1R (R for \u201cregional\u201d) would be fitted with advanced radars, air-to-air missiles, and new Pratt &amp; Whitney F119 engines. This variant would have a top speed of Mach 2.2, but with 20% less range.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Existing external hardpoints would be modified to allow multiple conventional weapons to be carried, increasing overall loadout. For air-to-air defense, an Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar would be added and some existing hardpoints modified to carry air-to-air missiles. If needed the B-1R could escape from unfavorable air-to-air encounters with its Mach 2+ speed. Few aircraft are currently capable of sustained speeds over Mach 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: By <a href=\"http:\/\/defence-blog.com\/?p=4773\" target=\"_blank\">defence-blog.com <\/a>\/ April 9, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1B_090415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1B_090415.jpg\" alt=\"US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1B_090415\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1B_090415.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/US-Air-Force-plans-to-upgrade-the-B-1B_090415-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The B-1R is a proposed upgrade of existing B-1B aircraft. The B-1R (R for \u201cregional\u201d) would be fitted with advanced radars, air-to-air missiles, and new Pratt &amp; Whitney F119 engines. This variant would&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36,1,7,23,32,177,18],"tags":[741,739,740,84,97],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}