B-1 Lancer: Why did the US government keep the failure of the Mach 2 bomber a secret?

They built it to fly low enough to slip under Soviet radar, fast enough to outrun every fighter in the sky, and deadly enough to flatten Moscow in a single night. Then they almost destroyed it. What happened to the B-1 Lancer between the day it rolled out of the hangar and the night it returned as Apocalypse II is one of the strangest stories in American aviation. A story of broken records, broken men, and a forty-year secret hidden in plain sight. The Bone is still in the sky tonight. By the end of this video, you'll know what kept it there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe — the sky still has many stories left untold. #B1Lancer #ColdWar #USAF #StrategicBomber #Aviation