Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, a British night bomber, c. 1940.Bombing of Tokyo by Boeing B-29 Superfortresses with firebombs on the night of May 26, 1945.
A night bomber is a bomber aircraft intended specifically for carrying out bombing missions at night. The term is now mostly of historical significance. Night bombing began in World War I and was widespread during World War II. A number of modern aircraft types are designed primarily for nighttime bombing, but air forces no longer refer to them as night bombers. More common terms today include interdictor and strike fighter, and such aircraft tend to have all-weather, day-or-night capabilities.
A nightbomber is a bomber aircraft intended specifically for carrying out bombing missions at night. The term is now mostly of historical significance...
all-female military aviators of the 588th NightBomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards NightBomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces...
A bomber is a military combat aircraft air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), launching torpedoes, or deploying air-launched cruise missiles. The first...
Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, on either ground or sea targets. This list does not include airships...
with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it was the main aircraft for the night-time bombing...
Second World War, night fighters were either purpose-built night fighter designs, or more commonly, heavy fighters or light bombers adapted for the mission...
introduction of NIVO (Night Invisible Varnish Orfordness) in early 1918; this was used for all external surfaces on nightbombers until superseded by World...
of No. 6 Group RAF Bomber Command at RAF Bassingbourn to train nightbomber aircrew. During 1942, it operated seven operational night bombing missions....
torpedo bombers are included. Bomber List of bomber aircraft List of military aircraft of the United States Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider, US heavy bomber under...
adequate for dealing with the RAF Bomber Command tactic of sending its nightbombers individually, with each bomber plotting its own route to the target...
Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry (usually bombs) and longest range (takeoff to landing)...
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...
fast bomber, the Mosquito's use evolved during the war into many roles, including low- to medium-altitude daytime tactical bomber, high-altitude night bomber...
1982, in Moscow) was the regimental commander of the 46th Taman Guards NightBomber Aviation Regiment during World War II and became the only woman ever...
were almost always carried out at night. During the inter-war era, this led to the creation of dedicated nightbomber designs that concentrated on solving...
авијацијски пук) was an aviation regiment established in 1948 as the NightBomber Aviation Regiment (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Vazduhoplovni noćni bombarderski...
Wellington was used as a nightbomber in the early years of the Second World War, performing as one of the principal bombers used by Bomber Command. During 1943...
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War is a 2021 book by Malcolm Gladwell that examines the US Bomber Mafia...
regimental commander and commissar of the 46th Guards NightBomber Aviation Regiment (a.k.a., the "Night Witches") during the Second World War. After the end...
A light bomber is a relatively small and fast type of military bomber aircraft that was primarily employed before the 1950s. Such aircraft would typically...
States Air Force unit 588th NightBomber Regiment or Night Witches, the female military aviators of the 588th NightBomber Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces...
built to meet the Air Ministry Specification B.19/27 for a twin-engine nightbomber to replace the Vickers Virginia, competing against the Handley Page Heyford...
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