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US Air Force sends B-1 bombers back to Guam on temporary deployment after ending its 16-year continuous presence on the Pacific Island just weeks ago
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Four bombers and approximately 200 Airman arrived at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam on May 1 to conduct training and ‘strategic deterrence missions’
- The B-1s, from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, have been deployed as part of the USPAF’ bomber task force, which seeks to show 'operational unpredictability'
- Analysts say that tactic makes the US forces harder to target than had been previously in the service's now ended Continuous Bomber Presence in Guam
- B-1s were last deployed to the Indo-Pacific region in 2017 to patrol over the East and South China Seas as a means of projecting U.S. airpower and resolve to North Korea, China and Russia
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-04 |
