We have arrived in Tucson. First thing on the Tucson list: AMARG, or 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group. Some ~4,000 aircraft are stored and mothballed here, awaiting either reactivation or dismantling. I don't know what the fate of that B-1 Lancer row is (lower picture), but what I do know (after some googling) is that they cost about 2 miljarder SEK each (or 283 million USD) and are now they're melting away in the 40° Arizona sun. Better here than out there somewhere dropping bombs, though. Pictured top, nicely timed shadow from a C-130 Hercules passing over the tour bus.
(Interesting fact: there's tons of B-52 nuclear bombers stored here that are being dismantled in accordance with a disarmament treaty signed by the US and Soviet Union. The planes are chopped up in huge chunks using a massive guillotine and then laid out on the lawn. This is so the Russian spy satellites above can verify that, yes, the US are indeed dismantling)
