When it debuted after WWII, the B-36 “Peacemaker” was the largest American warplane to date. It was designed to carry heavy ...

Conceived at some stage in World War II to meet the U.S. Army Air Forces’ demand for a strategic bomber with intercontinental ...

However, its service life was relatively brief, with successors like the B-36 Peacemaker and B-47 Stratojet ... B-50 Superfortress: The Strategic Bomber That Paved the Way for Nuclear Deterrence ...

The Navy’s case was simple but grave: the U.S. was entrusting its defense to a “fallacious concept”—the atomic blitz, and an inadequate weapon—the Air Force’s six-engined B-36 bomber.

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A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber, also known as the Lancer, was sent from its home station at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota to airspace east of the South Korean island of Jeju, which is ...

S. Air Force to reverse engineer the B-2 bomber’s Load Heat Exchanger (whatever that is). You’d think if the Air Force wanted to reverse engineer something, they’d be looking at another ...

The B-2 stealth bomber “Spirit of Nebraska” completed maintenance in record time, the Air Force announced Monday. (Bobbie Garcia/U.S. Air Force) The B-2 stealth bomber “Spirit of Nebraska ...