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Naval Aircraft Factory SBN dive bomber: 1936: retired 1942: 31: North American A-27 attack: 1940: retired 1941: 10: North American T-6 Texan light attack: 1940: retired: 15,495 [notes 4] North American XB-21 medium bomber: 1936: retired prototype: 1: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber: 1940: retired 1979: 9,984: North American XB-28 ...
North American A-36 Invader/Apache - Dive bomber/attack aircraft; North American B-25 Mitchell - Medium bomber; North American XB-28 - Prototype medium bomber; North American BT-9 - Basic trainer; North American BT-14 - Basic trainer; North American BC-1 - Basic combat trainer; North American AT-6 Texan - Advanced trainer; North American O-47 ...
Light bomber /reconnaissance: Glenn L. Martin Company 1941 1941 1,575 Vultee A-31 / A-35 Vengeance: Dive bomber: Vultee Aircraft: 1941 Unknown 1,931 North American A-36: Ground attack/dive bomber North American Aviation: Developed from the North American P-51 Mustang. 1942 1942 500 Douglas A-26 Invader: Ground attack. Light bomber. Douglas ...
The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber) project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the United States (specifically New York City) from Germany, a round-trip distance of about 11,600 km (7,200 mi).
According to the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Allied bombers between 1939 and 1945 dropped 1,415,745 tons of bombs over Germany (51.1% of the total bomb tonnage dropped by Allied bombers in the European campaign), 570,730 tons over France (20.6%), 379,565 tons over Italy (13.7%), 185,625 tons over Austria, Hungary and the Balkans (6. ...
1940s United States bomber aircraft (2 C, 46 P, 1 F) 1950s United States bomber aircraft (1 C, 12 P) 1960s United States bomber aircraft (1 P)
Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, on either ground or sea targets. This list does not include airships used for bombing and does not aim to include attack aircraft primarily intended for different roles.
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 ...