More Meat on the BONE

The Air Force must help hold the line in the Western Pacific until the Navy is restored. 

The B-1 bomber will be updated to fly through the 2040s with a greater bomb load and the ability to fire hypersonic weapons:

In recent years, the Air Force has also reconfigured the B-1B weapons bay to carry more weapons, increasing the B-1B’s magazine capacity from 24 weapons internally, all the way up to 40. The adjustments to the bomb bay will also enable the B-1B to carry hypersonic weapons, something which greatly increases the aircraft’s lethality.  The bomb bay itself has been massively reconfigured in anticipation of weapons which have yet to exist. 

This will be useful in PACOM.

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