Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry (usually bombs) and longest range (takeoff to landing)...
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There are two major classifications of bomber: strategic and tactical. Strategic bombing is done by heavy bombers primarily designed for long-range bombing...
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torpedo bombers are included. Bomber List of bomber aircraft List of military aircraft of the United States Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, US heavy bomber under...
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a modern strategic bombing mission need not always necessarily be a heavy bomber type, and any modern aircraft capable of nuclear strikes at long range...
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The JRU Heavy Bombers and Lady Bombers are the National Collegiate Athletic Association varsity teams of the Jose Rizal University. The university's juniors...
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The heavy fighter was a major design class during the pre-World War II period, conceived as long-range escort fighters or heavily-armed bomber destroyers...
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The 22nd Guards Donbas Red Banner Heavy Bomber Aviation Division is a division of the Russian Aerospace Force's Long-Range Aviation branch having previously...
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the base was home to the 121st Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Tu-160M and 184th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Tupolev Tu-95MS...
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Nakajima Aircraft Company (section Heavy bomber)
twin-engine heavy bomber (prototypes only), lost to the Mitsubishi Ki-21 Ki-31 - two-seat light bomber (project only) Ki-49 - Type 100 Heavy Bomber (一〇〇式重爆撃機)...
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(B-52 Stratofortress and B-1 Lancer). The Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) heavy bomber program superseded the NGB program. In 1999, the Air Force released...
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Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, on either ground or sea targets. This list does not include airships...
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type from larger heavy bombers and smaller light bombers. Mediums generally carried about two tons of bombs, compared to light bombers that carried one...
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The Bomber Mafia were a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long-range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win...
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Tupolev Tu-22M (redirect from Backfire bomber)
Instructor Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment Shaykovka (air base), Kaluga Oblast 52nd Heavy Bomber Regiment of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division...
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Tupolev Tu-160 (redirect from Blackjack bomber)
Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing nuclear-capable heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau...
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Tupolev Tu-95 (redirect from Bear Bomber)
been detected at Olenya 121st Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment 184th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 6952nd Air...
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Avro Lancaster (redirect from Lancaster Bomber)
The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary...
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List of conversion units of the Royal Air Force (redirect from No. 1584 (Heavy Bomber) Conversion Unit RAF)
introduction of new heavy bombers, the four-engined Short Stirling, Avro Lancaster, and Handley Page Halifax, the Royal Air Force introduced heavy conversion units...
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Wing Commander: Prophecy (redirect from Devestator heavy bomber)
Wing Commander: Prophecy is the fifth installment in the Wing Commander science fiction space combat simulator franchise of computer games. The game was...
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fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft. It differs from bomber and attack...
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at least 45 built MB.162 long-range heavy bomber MB.174 reconnaissance MB.175 bomber MB.200 bomber MB.210 bomber MB.220 transport MB.700 prototype light...
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of a heavy bomber fleet and cursed those who had told him the medium bomber was superior to the heavy bomber. "Well, those inferior heavy bombers of the...
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Amerikabomber (redirect from America Bomber)
operational heavy bomber during the war years, the Luftwaffe's commander-in-chief Hermann Göring gave a speech saying, "I completely lack the bombers capable...
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A light bomber is a relatively small and fast type of military bomber aircraft that was primarily employed before the 1950s. Such aircraft would typically...
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A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes. Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the...
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nuclear bomber base, with large tarmacs and nearly 40 revetments. The base is home to the 79th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment and the 182nd Guards Heavy Bomber...
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industry could build two medium bombers for one heavy bomber and the RLM would not gamble on developing a heavy bomber which would also take time. Göring...
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Twin-fuselage aircraft (section The heavy bomber)
fuselages, in the Ca.4 heavy bomber, manufacturing around 50 aircraft in a range of variants. During World War II the need arose for a heavy glider tug capable...
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which accounted for the difficulties in shooting down a heavy bomber. Although a single heavy bomber shot down or damaged still counted as one aerial victory...
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326th Tarnopolsky Order of Kutuzov Heavy Bomber Air Division (326 TBAD) is an Aviation Division of the Long Range Aviation of Russia. It was previously...
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