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Curtiss A-3/A-4 Falcon attack/light bomber: 1924 retired 1937: 155: Curtiss A-8 attack/light bomber: 1931 retired 1939: 13: 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 ...
An F-16 Fighting Falcon of the United States Air Force in flight. The United States Armed Forces uses a wide variety of military aircraft across the respective aviation arms of its various service branches. The numbers of specific aircraft listed in the following entries are estimates from published sources and may not be exhaustive.
United States strategic bomber: B-1B: 45 45 B-1B total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac). [1] 40 B-1B operational (WAF 2025). [2] B-2 Spirit: United States stealth strategic bomber B-2A 20 20 B-2A total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac). [1] 18 B-2A operational (WAF 2025). [2] B-52 Stratofortress: United States strategic bomber ...
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 third bomber is Russia’s PAK-DA bomber. The bomber has been under development since at least 2000 , and would replace Moscow’s Cold War-era fleet of Tupolev Tu-22M “Backfire,” Tu-95 ...
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.
Footage shows a set of US B-52 bomber jets joined by Nato allies in a show of strength over Europe. In a tweet, NATO Air Command said: "The B-52s are training with Allied Air Forces during their ...
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