{"id":15936,"date":"2021-02-18T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/18\/the-bone-heads-to-the-boneyard\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:33:48","slug":"the-bone-heads-to-the-boneyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2021\/02\/18\/the-bone-heads-to-the-boneyard\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Bone\u2019 heads to the boneyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday began the process of retiring the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2020\/12\/09\/the-b-1b-just-launched-a-cruise-missile-externally-hypersonic-missiles-could-be-next\/\" target=_blank> B-1 Lancer<\/a>, as the \u201cBone\u201d bomber flew to the Air Force\u2019s boneyard where divested aircraft are kept in storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force plans to retire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2020\/12\/04\/the-air-force-wanted-to-mothball-more-than-100-planes-in-its-inventory-heres-what-congress-says-it-will-permit\/\" target=_blank>17 of its 62 B-1s<\/a>, as authorized by Congress in the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill. The service said divesting its most battered and difficult-to-maintain B-1s would free up maintainers to restore the health of the remaining Lancer fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen. Tim Ray, who leads Air Force Global Strike Command, described the retirement of the B-1 as \u201csomething we have been working toward for some time\u201d to transition to the B-21 Raider in the mid-2020s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDue to the wear and tear placed on the B-1 fleet over the past two decades, maintaining these bombers would cost 10s of millions of dollars per aircraft to get back to status quo,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cAnd that\u2019s just to fix the problems we know about. We\u2019re just accelerating planned retirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a single B-1 was sighted flying around Arizona on Wednesday evening, an Air Force spokesman confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2021\/02\/18\/air-force-just-retired-first-b-1b-bomber.html\" target=_blank>to Military.com <\/a>that one B-1 from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota was making its way toward Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Davis-Monthan AFB is home to the \u201cboneyard,\u201d where the Air Force stores thousands of retired military planes, keeping aircraft safe so that parts can be harvested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four of the 17 retired B-1s will be required to be maintained in \u201ctype 2000 recallable storage,\u201d which would allow the Air Force to put those aircraft back into service if needed. Forty-five B-1s will be left in the active-duty inventory after the 17 bombers are divested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The B-1B has been flown hard in combat over the last two decades, and continued operations over the Middle East have \u201ctaken a toll on the airframe\u2019s structure,\u201d the Air Force said in a statement. 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