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Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider. The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is an American strategic bomber in development for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman. Part of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program, it is to be a stealth intercontinental strategic bomber that can deliver conventional and thermonuclear weapons.
W80 Mod 4 thermonuclear weapon. Operational. range. 2,500+ km (predicted) Launch. platform. B-52 Stratofortress. B-21 Raider. The AGM-181 Long Range Stand Off Weapon (LRSO) is a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile under development by Raytheon Technologies that will replace the AGM-86 ALCM.
A strategic bomber is a medium- to long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers, penetrators, fighter-bombers, and attack aircraft, which are used in air interdiction operations to ...
1952–present. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since the 1950s, and NASA for nearly 50 years.
Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry (usually bombs) and longest range (takeoff to landing) of their era. Archetypal heavy bombers have therefore usually been among the largest and most powerful military aircraft at any point in time. In the second half of the 20th century, heavy ...
First flight. 23 December 1974 ; 49 years ago(1974-12-23) The Rockwell B-1 Lancer[ b ] is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It has been nicknamed the "Bone" (from "B-One"). [ 2 ][ 3 ] As of 2024 [update], it is one of the United States Air Force's three strategic bombers, along with the B-2 ...
A Tu-95 flying over Moscow, 2008. The Tupolev Tu-95 (Russian: Туполев Ту-95; NATO reporting name: " Bear ") is a large, four-engine turboprop -powered strategic bomber and missile platform. First flown in 1952, the Tu-95 entered service with the Long-Range Aviation of the Soviet Air Forces in 1956 and was first used in combat in 2015.
AGM-158C LRASM. The AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) is a stealth air launch anti-ship cruise missile developed for the United States Air Force and United States Navy by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [7] Derived from the AGM-158B JASSM-ER, the LRASM was intended to pioneer more sophisticated autonomous ...