A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets.

With this knowledge, the British were able to build jammers whose effect was to " bend " the Knickebein beams so that German bombers spent months scattering their bomb loads over the British countryside.

This gave the aircraft an enormous advantage over earlier weapons such as dive bombers or torpedo bombers, whose low speed allowed them to be attacked with anti-aircraft guns.

In the 1970s, Tupolev concentrated its efforts on improving the performance of the Tu-22M bombers, whose variants included maritime versions.

It should be recalled that the Soviets were the only ones in the world, at that time, to maintain a strategic air force consisting mainly of heavy bombers Tupolev TB-1, R-6 and TB-3 whose general condition was good but that were becoming obsolete.

The first type of aircraft to carry cookies operationally was the Wellington, but they later became part of the standard bomb load of the RAF's heavy night bombers, as well as that of the Mosquitoes of the Light Night Strike Force, whose aircraft would sometimes visit Berlin twice in one night carrying " cookies ", flown by two different crews.

Allied aircraft also intruded on Swiss airspace during the war, mostly Allied bombers returning from raids over Italy and Germany that had been damaged and whose crews preferred internment by the Swiss to becoming prisoners of war.

While they were being fueled and armed for the afternoon mission, the bombers and many of the pursuit planes were caught on the ground when Japanese air units, whose takeoff from Formosa had been delayed for six hours by fog, attacked shortly after noon.

Daniel Erskine McIvor, CM ( August 30, 1911 – February 24, 2005 ) was a Canadian aviation pioneer whose long and storied career was crowned by his work with the Martin Mars water bombers.

They point to individuals or groups such as Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech massacre or Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of the Columbine High School massacre, and the suicide bombers of 9 / 11, all of whom clearly experienced intense anger and hate, but whose planning ( sometimes over periods of years ), forethought, and lack of impulsive behavior is readily observable.

Believing that America is " losing " the war due to having a higher casualty count, Condor, being urged by the hawkish " Librarian ", an air force colonel whose expertise centers on Soviet military doctrine, orders a " Grand Tour "; sending America's remaining bombers into the Soviet Union to destroy leadership bunkers, thus decapitating the Soviet government and leaving the rest of the nation to collapse.

* B — bomber aircraft: List of NATO reporting names for bombers

* Heavy bombers received the names of cities and towns-Short Stirling, Avro Lancaster, Handley Page Halifax.

Torpedo bombers were given ' fish ' names, e. g., Blackburn Shark, Fairey Swordfish, Fairey Barracuda.

The RAF's three post-war jet-engined, swept wing strategic bombers were given names beginning with " V "-Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor ( the V bombers ).

The NATO reporting names for Soviet / Russian ground-attack aircraft usually classified them as " F " ( fighters ) instead of " B " ( bombers ) — possibly because ( since Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter ) they were similar in size, range, and weapons to Soviet fighters, or were simply derivatives of such.

Fighter names began with an " F ", bombers with a " B ", cargo aircraft with a " C ".

Patrick Hill, one of the Six, said in April 2012 that the Six had learned the names of the real bombers and claimed it was common knowledge among the upper echelons of both the IRA and the British government.

Aphrodite and Anvil were the World War II code names of United States Army Air Forces and United States Navy operations to use B-17 and PB4Y bombers as precision-guided munitions against bunkers such as those of Operation Crossbow.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.

Prior to addressing the nation, President Clinton wanted to ground all planes in the Oklahoma City area to prevent the bombers from escaping by air, but decided against it.

The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.

With such torpedoes the method of attack in small torpedo boats, torpedo bombers and small submarines was to steer a predictable collision course abeam to the target and release the torpedo at the last minute, then peeling away, all the time subject to defensive fire.

Usage of all V bombers as weapons platforms, nuclear or conventional, ended in 1982.

At the time they entered service all three V bombers were capable of altitudes that put them effectively out of reach of the then contemporary gun-armed Soviet interceptors such as the MiG 15, MiG 17, and later MiG 19.

Upon entering all service all three V bombers were initially painted in an overall silver finish, with the prominent under-nose H2S radomes on the Valiant and Vulcan left in black, however, this silver finish was later changed to one of anti-flash white, the RAF roundels being adjusted in shade, and made paler, to minimise the absorption of energy from the flash of detonating nuclear weapons.

* January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany ( Wilhelmshaven is the target ).

The use of this tactic was reduced however, by the high logistic difficulty of keeping enough planes active at all times, and the increasing priority given to ICBMs over bombers ( which might be shot down by air defenses before reaching their targets ).

De Havilland's Airco designs were to provide around 30 % of all trainers, fighters and bombers used by Britain and the United States during the First World War.

As strategic bombing aims to undermine an enemy nation-state's ability to wage war, strategic bombers need to be able to reach targets throughout most or all of that nation, and so have tended to be larger, longer-ranged aircraft.

He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as 1964's Fail-Safe, in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges all out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to U. S. Air Force bombers, in the tense, and timely cold-war thriller.

Also, he was the last chief of staff with a bomber background ; all subsequent Chiefs of Staff except General Norton Schwartz have been fighterplane pilots, and this trend is reflected by the Service's weapon budgets, which devote most funding to fighterplanes rather than bombers.

For bombers the additional requirement was a placename, hence the Boulton Paul Bourges ; and its contemporaries-the Airco Amiens and Vickers Vimy ( Bourges, Amiens and Vimy all being in France ).

The CF-100 Canuck operated under NORAD to protect airspace from Soviet threats such as nuclear-armed bombers during all weather and day / night conditions.

The city left all its lights on at night, and thus fooled the bombers into thinking it was actually part of Switzerland.

The Dale Brown novel Plan of Attack saw nuclear missiles launched by Russian bombers attacking multiple bomber bases all over the U. S, including Offutt, which is destroyed by four Kh-15 ( AS-17 Kickback ) missiles.

President Bush took all Minuteman II missiles, bombers and tankers off alert status on 27 September.

The German Luftwaffe used the Hs 293, the Fritz X, and others, all launched from its bombers, to deadly effect against some Allied ships in the Mediterranean Sea, seriously damaging ships such as the United States Navy light cruiser off Salerno, Italy.

By 1940, seeing that the Chinese Air Force had collapsed, because of ill-trained Chinese pilots and shortage of equipment, Chiang Kai-shek sent Chennault to the United States to meet with Dr. T. V. Soong in Washington DC, with the following directed purpose: to get as many fighter planes, bombers, and transports as possible, plus all the supplies needed to maintain them and the pilots to fly the aircraft.

For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.