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No offense but the B-1 is not nessasary in the current war on terror, Hadji doesn't really care if he gets blown up by a JDAM froma B-1 or a Jdam from an F-16 and last time I checked we dotn drop but 1 at a time in most CAS missions. Scrap it, save some cash. We got other planes that can do the same thing as it can.
The B1s range is intercontinental without refueling. So if a B1 took off from an airstrip in country or it refueled in country. It could loiter over an area all day ready to support troops instantly. I dont know an F-16s flight time unrefueled but id guess it isnt more than 2-3 hours
A B1s payload is something like 75,000 lbs an F-16s is 17,000 but f-16 would have to lose its external fuel tank/s to carry that weight in munitions.
I would say the 2 dont even come close to doing the same thing.