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Curtiss A-12 Shrike attack/light bomber: 1933 retired 1942: 46: Curtiss XA-14 attack/light bomber: 1935 retired prototype: 1: Curtiss A-18 Shrike attack/light bomber: 1935 retired 1943: 13: Curtiss B-2 Condor heavy bomber: 1929 retired 1934: 13: Curtiss BF2C Goshawk fighter-bomber: 1933 retired 1949: 166: Curtiss CS torpedo bomber: 1923 Retired ...
1964 Operation Chrome Dome Map from Sheppard Air Force Base, TX 1966 overview of US airborne alert routes, based on a document used by White House staff.. Operation Chrome Dome was a United States Air Force Cold War-era mission from 1961 to 1968 in which B-52 strategic bomber aircraft armed with thermonuclear weapons remained on continuous airborne alert, flying routes that put them in ...
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 ...
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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 Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" [N 1] is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, although it was exceeded in span and weight by the one-off Hughes H-4 Hercules.
Cold War bomber enhances China’s ability to strike U.S. bases. ... American and Canadian fighter jets scrambled to intercept a joint patrol of two Chinese H-6 and two Russian Tu-95 bombers near ...
The North American B-45 Tornado is an early American jet bomber designed and manufactured by aircraft company North American Aviation.It has the distinction of being the first operational jet bomber to enter service with the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as the first multiengine jet bomber to be refueled in midair.