Bombers

Bombers are any large aircraft that specializes in the carrying, delivering, or dropping explosive warheads on enemy lines. Bombers work as weapons of mass destruction, being used to drop anywhere from 1 to even 100 bombs in a row onto the ground below, whether it being a building, vehicle, or person. Over the years bombers have become more complex in both the delivering and dropping of bombs, being able to approach structures without any detection and drop a bomb perfectly enough to land on the head of a pin.

ClassificationEdit

StrategicEdit

Strategic bombing are heavy bombers primarily designed for long-range bombing missions against strategic targets such as supply bases, bridges, factories, shipyards, and cities themselves, in order to damage an enemy's war effort. Current examples include the strategic nuclear-armed strategic bombers: B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, Tupolev Tu-95 'Bear', Tupolev Tu-22M 'Backfire'; historically notable examples are the: Gotha G, Avro Lancaster, Heinkel He-111, Junkers Ju 88, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-29 Superfortress, and Tupolev Tu-16 'Badger'.

TacticalEdit

Tactical bombing, aimed at enemy military units and installations, is typically assigned to smaller aircraft operating at shorter ranges, typically along the troops on the ground or sea. This role is filled by various aircraft tactical bomber classes, as different as light bombers, medium bombers, dive bombers, interdictors, fighter-bombers, ground-attack aircraft, multirole combat aircraft, among others. Current examples: F-15E Strike Eagle, F/A-18 Hornet, Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback, Chengdu J-10, Xian JH-7, Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000, and the Panavia Tornado; historical examples: Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, Heinkel He 111, Dornier Do 17, Dornier Do 215, Junkers Ju 88, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, P-47 Thunderbolt, Hawker Typhoon, and F-4 Phantom II.

HistoryEdit

Bombers have been used as the diabolial war machines they are now since the first World War,

Notable BombersEdit

• Enola Gay: A B-29 Superfortress bomber. Notable for being the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war.

TriviaEdit

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