Strategic bomber
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A strategic bomber is a medium-to-long-range bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wag
A contemporary U.S. Air Force strategic bomber, the Rockwell B-1B Lancer
The Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was designed by Igor Sikorsky as the first ever airliner, but it was turned into a bomber by the Imperial Russian Air Force.
The only operational strategic bomber with the Luftwaffe in World War II was the troubled Heinkel He 177.
A USAF B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.
Rockwell B-1 Lancer
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The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It has been nicknamed the "Bone". As of 2026, it is one of the U.S. Air Force's three str
Strategic bomber
…fighter. As of 2025, the United States Air Force is the largest operator with 130 strategic bombers in active service, between the B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer, and Northrop B-2 Spirit. The People's Liberation Army is second with 120 Xi'an H-6 bombers, and the Russian Air Force third, with 119 bombers between…
The XB-70 Valkyrie was chosen in 1957 to replace the Hustler but suffered as a result of a switch in doctrine from a high- to a low-altitude flying profile.
AN/APQ-140 radar for the B-1A
B-1A prototype