Bomber
A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets.
- Strategic bombers are primarily designed for long-range strike missions against strategic targets such as supply bases, bridges, factories, and shipyards. Examples: B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, B-52 Stratofortress, Tupolev Tu-16[?].
- Ground-attack (or close-support) aircraft are designed to loiter over a battlefield and attack tactical targets, such as tanks, troop concentrations, etc. Examples: Stuka, Il-2 Sturmovik[?], A-10 Warthog, Sukhoi Su-25[?].
- Attack aircraft (aka fighter-bombers) are multirole combat aircraft which can be equipped for either air-to-air combat or air-to-ground combat. Examples: Hawker Typhoon, F/A-18 Hornet and the Panavia Tornado.
Strategic bombers often have some defensive armament, but they are not designed to engage in combat with other aircraft. They are relatively large, slow, and unmanoeuvrable. If enemy air opposition is expected, bombers must be escorted. Attack aircraft are smaller, faster, and more agile, but less-so than a fighter when armed for a ground attack mission, and carry insufficient air-to-air weaponry for protracted combat unless loaded specifically for an air-to-air mission. Typically, combat aircraft intended for ground attack duties are camouflaged in the colours of vegetation whilst interceptors and aircraft intended for "dogfighting" other airplanes at altitude are finished in light blues or greys, so that their presence and trajectory are harder to see against the sky.
(insert a bit here about the development of bombers)
(V bomber, Light bomber, dive-bombers, torpedo-bombers, strategic bombers, stealth bombers, low-level bombing, carpet-bombing, air-launched cruise-missiles)
See also: Bomb, Kamikaze, cruise missile
Droid's
there's no tellin.html">tellin' how ignorant the wurruld can be. St. Droid--aw, he
Moira together. You didn't know about them two? You niver h'ard of
it is, there's no sayin' how ignorant y'are if y'are not Irish. Aw no,
Diarmid's boy was Filion and Moira's girl was Fiona, an' the troubles of
the way that St. Droid brought them two together Aw, come outside in the
woman that's got a warm heart, an' I'll tell you the story of Filion and
while I'm tellin' you, all the time you'll be thinkin' of St. Droid, for
cave, you understan'? Wasn't his face like the sun comin' up over.
On
wordlookup.net
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
It uses material from the wikipedia.
|
|