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This is a list of United States bomber aircraft, including those with the capability of bombing, ... Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber: 1947: retired 1977: 2,032:
France formed a strategic bombing unit, the Groupe de Bombardement No. 1 (GB1), in September 1914. The French were reluctant to bomb targets on their own soil, even if occupied by the Germans, and were more wary of German retaliation than the British, because French cities were within range of German bombers.
Most articles about aircraft types that were used in World War I are in one of the 1910–1919 (first flight) categories listed below. Some aircraft (e.g. airship) types with earlier first flights were also used in WWI. Category:1910s Austro-Hungarian military aircraft; Category:1910s British military aircraft; Category:1910s French military ...
The Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was designed by Igor Sikorsky as the first ever airliner, but it was turned into a bomber by the Imperial Russian Air Force.. The first strategic bombing efforts took place during World War I (1914–18), by the Russians with their Sikorsky Ilya Muromets bomber (the first heavy four-engine aircraft), and by the Germans using Zeppelins or long-range multi-engine Gotha ...
The Zeppelin raids were complemented by the Gotha G bombers from 1917, which were the first heavier than air bombers to be used for strategic bombing, and by a small force of five Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI "giant" four engined bombers from late September 1917 through to mid-May 1918. Twenty-four Gotha twin-engined bombers were shot down on the ...
List of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962) List of United States Army aircraft designations (1956–1962) List of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations; List of U.S. DoD aircraft designations; List of undesignated military aircraft of the United States
Carrier-based strategic bomber Douglas Aircraft Company 1952 1956 282 Douglas A-4 (A4D) Skyhawk: Attack aircraft, fighter, aggressor aircraft: Douglas Aircraft Company / McDonnell Douglas: 1954 1956 2,960 North American A-5 (A3J) Vigilante: Carrier-based nuclear bomber /reconnaissance aircraft [7] North American Aviation 1958 1961 167 Grumman A ...
This is a list of aircraft used by the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations for combat aerial reconnaissance and aerial mapping. The first aircraft acquired by the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps were not fighters or bombers but reconnaissance aircraft. From the first days of World War I, the airplane demonstrated ...