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News & Current Events Mar 27, 2026 at 12:04 PM

More B-1s arrive in UK to put bomber force for Iran ops at 21

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More B-1s Arrive in UK to Put Bomber Force for Iran Ops at 21
Air & Space Forces Magazine
More B-1s Arrive in UK to Put Bomber Force for Iran Ops at 21
Three additional B-1 Lancers arrived at RAF Fairford, U.K., bringing the total number of bombers deployed to the British base to 21 aircraft.

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craigferg Mar 27, 2026 +19
If Everyone is going Scorched Earth, there will no longer be a need to keep the Straits open.
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dowdymeatballs Mar 27, 2026 +7
Get your pip boys ready, we're going to be living in the fallout wasteland.
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Bulletloader Mar 28, 2026 +1
I can hear Max Rockatansky coming over the hill.
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IntelArtiGen Mar 27, 2026 +89
Are these planes supposed to bring the ceasefire?
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failtuna Mar 27, 2026 +39
Everyone knows a ceasefire can only be carried in a bomb-bay.  And the more bomb-bays you have the more ceasefires you can deliver. 
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Scrantonicity_02 Mar 27, 2026 +6
More fire, less cease
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vreemdevince Mar 28, 2026 +1
Ceaseless fire? You got it, chief.
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EndoExo Mar 27, 2026 +4
They actually removed the ability of the B-1s to use nuclear weapons to comply with the New START limits. They'd have to refit them with [PALs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link) first.
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ManWhoSoldTheWorld01 Mar 27, 2026 +9
Based on what the American War Secretary said, I can only assume they contain negotiations...
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yozeeto Mar 27, 2026 +3
I want world piece! Thank you on this matter...
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lostwisdom20 Mar 27, 2026 +6
They can but not how we are thinking
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Dapper_Otters Mar 27, 2026 +1
I don't know, bombing them into submission hasn't worked so far.
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Weshtonio Mar 27, 2026 +2
Can't have a ceasefire without some fire to cease.
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big-papito Mar 27, 2026 +2
No - they are part of a campaign to give Pete Kegseth some material to jack off to, as he watches shit get blown up. "Warriorrrr eeeeethooooaaaahs!!"
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RandomPants84 Mar 27, 2026 +2
It worked with Japan
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OkFix4074 Mar 27, 2026 +1
didn you hear ? - US negotiate by bombs , Iran is also replying in the same language.
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RedditIsADataMine Mar 27, 2026 +16
I live near Fairford and have heard a ridiculous amount of military planes in the sky since this war started.  The most intriguing sounding one always flies over sometime around 3-5am. Haven't seen what it is. 
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rayui Mar 27, 2026 +6
Frome here. We've had minimum 15 sorties this fly over week, plus tankers stationed nearby. Spotters report cruise missile payloads losing at Fairford so if they're all full, that's about 500,000kg munitions this week alone.
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rayui Mar 27, 2026 +2
We had a very loud low one around 8.20am today. Didn't see it.
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TheRealGDay Mar 27, 2026 +38
These B1s are all confirmed being used for defensive purposes only?
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xSaRgED Mar 27, 2026 +15
Good news! Sometimes the best defense, is an even more aggressive offense!
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TheRealGDay Mar 27, 2026 +3
Curious as to what attacks that Iran made on the USA that these are responding to.
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Brilliant_Version344 Mar 27, 2026 +100
And trump continues insulting the uk
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Semajal Mar 27, 2026 +85
Yeah, Brit here, honestly id much rather we actually properly do tell trump to FO and just get closer to Europe. But brexit put us into this insanely dumb position of trying to not upset the US too much.
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ninjplus Mar 27, 2026 +74
Brexit, brought to you by the same comrades who installed Trump in the US.
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AssistX Mar 27, 2026 -22
Anyone blaming Russia for the current US is a disillusioned a******. We did all this ourselves, Russia doesn't deserve anywhere near the credit it gets for the populaces fuckups.
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P_ZERO_ Mar 27, 2026 +9
It’s a thousand cuts situation. Russia didn’t have to cause all of them, they only had to get a few people cutting.
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sittingmongoose Mar 27, 2026 +23
Social media/fake news/bots go a LONG way. It was easy to fool the older generation with that. And it was easy to use social media to brain wash the younger generation. This wasn’t a 1 year long campaign, they have been doing this for a decade. You can bet your ass china was helping them too. While we certainly are in charge of our own decisions, propaganda works…
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JoeyJoeC Mar 27, 2026 +6
Unfortunately my parents fall for this shit. I thought they were clever people, until my dad publicly posted on Facebook he was attending some Tommy Robinson rally in London. Yesterday he sent me a screenshot from Facebook of an account named "Congratulations you won a gift, message me with the word SPACE Elon", thinking Elon Musk saw his post and thought he won something. This isn't the first time he's fallen for these scams, despite explaining it to him in depth to the point he said he understood. I love my parents, but with old age, they're getting stupider. My dad supports Trump but ignores all the stupid shit he does, and focuses on things like "But he is going to release information about aliens!".
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Richie217 Mar 27, 2026 +7
It's not Russia. It's Conservative Right-wing fucktards that have us were we are now.
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faultysynapse Mar 27, 2026 +2
Listen, they both deserve all the blame that can be given to them.
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AssistX Mar 27, 2026 +3
sure, but the neighbors around me who voted for Trump, they didn't do it because of propaganda. Like most voters in the US, they simply vote for the party they're registered with. (90% of voters in the US never change the party they initially registered with) Democrats didn't come out to vote last election because of how the party handled Biden backing out and that's why we have Trump again. That and the Democrats allowing Harris to choose a VP that brought zero votes or states to their side. Biden dropping out wasn't Russian interference, Walz being chosen wasn't Russian interference, Progressives being pissed that Bernie got overlooked once again (could be russian) just added to the lack of Democrats showing up to vote. Harris had 40,000 less people than Biden vote in Philadelphia, a city renowned for being Democrat. It's the first time a Democrat got under 80% of the vote in Philly since Clinton won in 96. Between that and Walz being chosen over Shapiro, that's why Pennsylvania flipped to Republican and what's why we have Donald Trump as President. So like I said, anyone attributing Trump this term to Russia is just flatout wrong. Democrats lost the election and we have ourselves (really the DNC) to blame for it, not Russia.
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Due-Department-8906 Mar 27, 2026 +1
They have their part. We are on the open internet. China and Russia are on closed internets. It allows them to freely mess with knowledge on the WWW. You'd be amazed how much disinformation is from China, Russia and Pakistan. Remember when Twitter showed user location and all the racist c*** towards India was from Pakistanis pretending to be American? We are in the age of disinformation, which has only gotten more powerful with AI.
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GrumpyOik Mar 27, 2026 +7
I'm leaning towards the "Tell him to FO" , because it doesn't matter what deals you make with Trump, what concessions are involved, next week he will demand more.
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DingleBerrieIcecream Mar 27, 2026 +11
It’s funny how fear and hatred of immigrants still fuels some of the dumbest and far reaching policies
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btribble Mar 27, 2026 +1
I’m from the US. I literally stood in a line for a concert at Wembley with pro-Brexit folks who were questioning me about why we couldn’t see that Trump was a fool. I tried to get them to see that both things has a common undercurrent but they were incapable of seeing it. They were basically Trump voters.
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Semajal Mar 27, 2026 +2
Sadly we have people who voted for brexit, got shafted by brexit, and are now all in on farage/reform to "brexit right" or some nonsense. It's been so insanely frustrating to watch things get worse and then people keep blaming it on the wrong people. Though the tide seems to be turning to degree against Farage, just need to keep linking him to trump.
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yubnubster Mar 27, 2026 +19
We should tell them to f*** off back home away from our "toy" airfields.
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btribble Mar 27, 2026 -3
The US still has leases no? Are these US airbases or UK ones?
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yubnubster Mar 27, 2026 +8
Leases... They are on our territory. On RAF owned land and can f*** off. It's not complicated.
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btribble Mar 27, 2026 -1
If there are contractual leases, that land is considered part of the US, just like the land under an embassy. If you don't want another country having military bases in your country, don't sign the lease. You remember when Hong Kong was legally part of the UK? Same thing.
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yubnubster Mar 27, 2026 +9
Perhaps you could link a copy of the lease agreement? Either way.. I dont care. They cannot legally use the planes in those bases without permission by the UK government. Not the same thing at all. Either way, whatever technicality you are trying to pointlessly drive home, I genuinely don't care.. They can still f*** off.
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Sirusho_Yunyan Mar 27, 2026 +19
"We're going to free you.. we're going to free the shit out of you!"
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ubertrader123 Mar 27, 2026 +9
DUI hire Pete kegsbreath says they negotiate with bombs.
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omfgeometry Mar 27, 2026 +7
This is the 15 point peace plane?
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Dougalishere Mar 27, 2026 +14
UK stop for once ur in your life being a total shit show please. Signed a brit
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Ready_Register1689 Mar 27, 2026 +3
Weak UK. I’m disappointed.
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Complex-Source-7224 Mar 27, 2026 +4
Looks like we want to start bunker busting
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ArrowsOfFate Mar 27, 2026 +5
Already have been since the start of the war.
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Complex-Source-7224 Mar 27, 2026
We already been lobbing MOPs?
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ArrowsOfFate Mar 27, 2026 +5
We are using gbu-72 bunker busting bombs. It’s our newest and second most powerful. They are 5,000 lb deep penetrator munitions that replace an older 5,000 lb model. Israel has been using 2,000 lb bunker busters for years in Gaza to destroy skyscrapers and apartment buildings and we just gave them something like 27,000 bunker busters of various weights without congressional authority via an emergency authorization. https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2026/03/19/us-drops-new-bunker-busting-bomb-iran-war/89224975007/ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/18/us-military-says-hit-iran-missile-sites-near-strait-of-hormuz-with-bunker-buster-bombs_6751545_4.html https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-776399
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Complex-Source-7224 Mar 27, 2026 +1
I appreciate your explanation and links! I thought we haven't but turns out we and Israel have been using them all along.
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ArrowsOfFate Mar 27, 2026 +2
No problem. The big 30,000 lb Mop, technically called the GBu-57 is only rarely used because there was like 20 of them and we used most of the supply (14) bombing the nuclear bunkers last June. New ones are being made though. But we and our Allies use smaller sized bunker busters a lot. Also, many weapons like Jdams and tomahawks can be used in a bunker buster role. With the jdam depending on how hard the bomb is. They penetrate through buildings and then explode on the inside which generates many times more force than simply running into something and exploding externally which doesn’t harm the interior of the building as much.
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Complex-Source-7224 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Oh I  was wondering about our strongest bomb and how we haven't used yet this time around. I was going to ask how long would it take to resupply GBu-51 but I'll look it up, to not waste your time. 
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ArrowsOfFate Mar 27, 2026 +3
Stuff like that is classified, but it usually takes quite a bit of time because of how huge they are and because a production line has to be started again after not running continuously for multiple different components. It’s not a super high production rate or speed though as far as I can tell, since I can’t check out any classified info. This article says they cost 370 million dollars each. https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-gbu-57-bunker-buster-bombs-limit-ability-iran
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Complex-Source-7224 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Holy shit they're costly! What you're telling me, tells me, okay then we may not see them used yet because we don't have enough and what it takes to build them is a high bar. 
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ArrowsOfFate Mar 27, 2026 +1
You might see a couple used here and there if they find a really juicy target. But it’s not something we can deploy daily. You might also see its cousin, the mother of all bombs, which is an airburst round. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB Pictures don’t do these bad boys and most bombs and missiles justice. They are big chunky boys.
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burtvader Mar 27, 2026 +3
Saw one these c@nts flying over my house yesterday, don’t want them here, please someone tell them to f@ck off. Close the American bases on all UK territory, trump insists he doesn’t need us.
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CircumspectCapybara Mar 27, 2026 +4
People acting shocked the UK is aiding the US. No duh, Iran attacked UK bases, what do you expect. Same thing happened with the gulf states: they were initially neutral third parties, some even friendly to Iran. UAE for ex was a lifeline to Iran before Iran blew up a UAE high rises and the UAE closed their embassy in Tehran and withdrew their diplomatic mission. And in the initial Epic Fury strikes, the gulf states didn't allow the US use of bases within their territory or overflight permissions. It was all carrier-based aircraft. Then Iran started blowing up their oil infra, ports, hotels, airports, and civilian population centers. And the gulf states went from neutral and "Don't launch attacks from within our territory" to "Please use our territory and airspace to strike Iran and neutralize this madman."
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KnownAppeal4137 Mar 27, 2026 +4
No new wars the cult once screamed and we had to listen fully knowing it was bullshit. 
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TriXter69 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Is the UK really this spineless. Trump literally constantly talks shit about them, calls them weak, cowards. Yet they roll over and say here you go sir, use our bases
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BrokenDownMiata Mar 27, 2026 +4
Because Iran struck our sovereign territory on Cyprus. Akrotiri & Dhekelia aren’t just leased RAF bases, they’re full British Overseas Territories.
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The_Artist_Who_Mines Mar 27, 2026 +7
What are you basing your worldview on? The Iranians chose to bomb us and drag us into their war, regardless of the us' actions
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epalla Mar 27, 2026 +1
As a random aside: I've seen B1s in an air show a few times and these things are absolutely the loudest mofos you've ever heard. 
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Sure-Record-8093 Mar 27, 2026 +1
They will win the war and defeat Iran for the 8th time in two weeks
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truttatrotta Mar 27, 2026 +1
Did Trump not just say yesterday that he doubts the US would be there for the UK if needed?
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truttatrotta Mar 27, 2026 +1
Wasting a lot of money for a war that was won ages ago.
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ChaoticSenior Mar 27, 2026 +1
Is that picture actual size?
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Questionsaboutsanity Mar 27, 2026 +1
yeah, bombing for peace! it’s just like f****** for virginity…
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endadaroad Mar 27, 2026 +1
Last I checked, Ellsworth is in South Dakota, not North Dakota as stated in the article.
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Known_Limit_6904 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Kick them out
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FoundationGreat7072 Mar 27, 2026 +1
The kings and queens said no, so now ayatollas are on the short list. Somebody realy want\`s to get a royal lineage..
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Minimum_Run_890 Mar 27, 2026 +1
UK is now firmly on the wrong side of things.
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cre8ivjay Mar 27, 2026 +1
American naivete and arrogance is the problem. Americans need to get this and actively vote to improve schools at home not buy more bombs. There is no existing plan here that makes this better for Iranians. Or Americans. Or the world.
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Doomergeneration Mar 27, 2026 +1
These really says the war is over doesn’t it…
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RespectTheTree Mar 27, 2026 +1
We don't need no healthcare, let the mother fuckers burn!
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