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The Bomber B high-speed medium bomber design competition for the Luftwaffe started in July 1939 was meant to create an updated design to take over the original Schnellbomber role by later in World War II, and function with a heavier bombload than the earlier Schnellbomber designs were capable of carrying, but due to the intractable development ...
A twin jet bomber project with a crew of three quite similar to the Fw 1000x1000x1000 A with a wingspan of 12.65 m and a length of 14.2 m. Data from Herwig & Rode [3] General characteristics. Crew: three; Length: 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) Wingspan: 12.65 m (41 ft 6 in) Powerplant: 2 × Heinkel-Hirth He S 011 Turbojet engines, 13 kN (2,900 lbf) thrust ...
TB-1 - 1925 heavy bomber; I-4 - 1927 fighter; TB-3 - 1930 heavy bomber; MTB-1 - 1934 maritime patrol flying boat; DB-1 - 1934 bomber; SB - 1934 fast bomber; Tu-2 - 1941 medium bomber; Tu-4 - 1947 strategic bomber; Tu-14 - 1949 torpedo bomber; Tu-16 - 1952 strategic bomber; Tu-22 - 1959 medium bomber Tu-22M - 1969 strategic bomber; Tu-28 - 1964 ...
The Tupolev ANT-40, also known by its service name Tupolev SB (Russian: Скоростной бомбардировщик – Skorostnoi Bombardirovschik – high speed bomber) and development co-name TsAGI-40, was a high speed twin-engined three-seat monoplane bomber, first flown in 1934.
The term "thousand-bomber raid" was used to describe three night bombing raids by the Royal Air Force against German cities in summer 1942 during World War II. [1]The term was a propaganda device, whereby Arthur Harris reached the number of bombers by including not only bombers that were currently operational as part of RAF Bomber Command, but also aircrews from Operational Training Units to ...
The P1Y was designed by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal to Navy specification 15-Shi, [2], calling for a fast bomber with speed matching the Zero, range matching the G4M, a 907 kg (2,000 lb) bombload, and the ability to dive-bomb as well as carry torpedoes. As the result, the construction suffered from excess complexity, difficulty of ...
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The Ju 88C series of standard fighter-bomber versions from the C-2 onwards culminated in the Ju 88 C-6, applying experience acquired with the A-4 bomber, equipped with the same Jumo 211J engines but replacing the "beetle's eye" nose glazing with a smoothly curved all-metal nose, pierced only by the barrels of its forward-firing offensive ...