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

Boeing B-50 Superfortress, an evolution of the WWII-era B-29, led the U.S. Strategic Air Command’s nuclear deterrence fleet ...

The B-36, a six-engined, 5000-mile range heavy bomber, was the Air Force's big bid for strategic bombing supremacy; as such, it had come in for lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big ...

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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.

Air Force to reverse engineer the B-2 bomber’s Load Heat Exchanger (whatever ... but — honestly — it doesn’t sound that way to us. Especially since the fleet will retire no later than ...

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 ...

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 ...

That bomber deployment was one of two announced Friday. The military also plans to send B-52s, alongside fighters and Navy ships, to the Middle East to deter Iran and its proxies. Tensions in the ...

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