Strategic bombing
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Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed military attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles, or nuclear-armed fighter-bomber aircraft
Tokyo after the massive firebombing attack on the night of March 9–10, 1945, the single most destructive raid in military aviation history. The Tokyo firebombing cut the city's industrial productivity by half and killed around 100,000 civilians.
A 1918 Air Raid rehearsal, evacuating children from a hospital
German airship bombing Calais on the night of 21–22 February 1915
Ruins of Guernica (1937)
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.