B-1B Bomber Made Bold Flight

In something of an unprecedented move, according to aircraft trackers, a B-1B bomber on a global airpower mission flew into the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday, a large bay-like body of water that is surrounded on three sides by Russian territory. The flight was the most provocative, so far, of a series of very long-range missions that the B-1B fleet has headed up after the Continuous Bomber Presence on the Pacific island of Guam was shuttered after 15 years. In its place is a new strategy for heavy bomber power projection to the Pacific Theater, dubbed Dynamic Force Employment, which is far less predictable than what came before and seemingly more aggressive in nature.