Russia’s Tu-22M Backfire bomber, integral to its campaign against Ukraine, faces mounting losses, with the latest aircraft ...

Used on several bomber models during World War II ... The B-24’s slab-sided fuselage earned the aircraft its nickname, the “Flying Boxcar.” The fuselage was constructed around two central ...

Tandem bicycle landing gear folded into the fuselage ... which returned to bomber duty. The aircraft was lengthened at the nose by 34 in, and had photographic and electronic reconnaissance ...

The concept is that an airplane’s fuselage and tail ... marshal Hermann Göring demanded that the Luftwaffe’s next bomber aircraft be able to carry a 1,000-kilogram bomb load 1,000 kilometers ...

Between 1943 and 1945, over 7,000 SB2C Helldivers were built. Initially, the aircraft displayed poor handling characteristics—earning a damning report from the waste-focused Truman Committee and ...

A Royal Australian Air Force Baltimore bomber aircraft, which was lost has been found. A World War II bomber that was shot down by the Nazis in December 1943 has been discovered -- ending a ...

The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is one of the US military's most formidable weapons. The Air Force announced that Northrop Grumman, which designed and built the B-2, will create a successor to the ...

The aircraft has a tailless, flying-wing configuration, with a twin-wheel nose landing gear, and tandem-wheeled main landing gears, like the Su-34 Fullback fighter-bomber. Also, in the space ...

The bomber performed its debut flight in March. As the Tupolev press office specified back then, the flight's aim was to assess the aircraft’s take-off and landing characteristics and test the ...