Originally Posted by
ORAC
Are France and others starting to close their airspace to bombing missions?
Updated for B-1 mission numbers
Could this have been to allow them to fly at supersonic speeds? I haven't crunched the numbers so I have no idea what the difference is between a direct overland subsonic transit and a round the coast supersonic run.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, the Bone can only do Max Mach of M1.25.