Dick Banholzer, Boeing’s director of Global Strike Business Development, said the company is engaged in a number of new LRS-related programs. Several of these involve the B-1B fleet, he said. The company has also received a contract from the Air Force to conduct the “SPECTRE II” upgrade for the B-2 stealth bomber, a classified modernization effort. Asked for details, Banholzer said he was not at liberty to elaborate.
Multiple U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters have deployed to the strategic outpost of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to protect the myriad of assets deployed there, including strategic bombers.