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With the advent of guided air to air missiles, bombers needed to avoid interception. The Avro Vulcan was part of the RAF V bomber forceĪt the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means of carrying nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence. Some smaller designs have been used as the basis for night fighters, and a number of fighters, such as the Hawker Hurricane were used as ground attack aircraft, replacing earlier conventional light bombers that proved unable to defend themselves while carrying a useful bombload. World War II saw the beginning of the widespread use of high speed bombers which dispensed with defensive weapons to be able to attain higher speed, such as with the de Havilland Mosquito, a philosophy that continued with many Cold War bombers.

maritime patrol - long range bombers that were used against enemy shipping, particularly submarines.īombers are not intended to attack other aircraft although most were fitted with defensive weapons.

night bomber - specially equipped to operate at night when opposing defences are limited.

A further specialized form was the anti-tank aircraft.

ground attack aircraft - aircraft used against targets on a battlefield such as troop or tank concentrations.

torpedo bomber - specialized aircraft armed with torpedoes.light bomber, medium bomber and heavy bomber - subjective definitions based on size.

dive bomber - specially strengthened for vertical diving attacks for greater accuracy.

With engine power as a major limitation, combined with the desire for accuracy and other operational factors, bomber designs tended to be tailored to specific roles. As the effectiveness of a bomber was dependent on the weight and accuracy of its bombload, ever larger bombers were developed starting in WWI, while considerable money was spent developing suitable bombsights.Īvro Lancaster with a 22,000 pounds (10,000 kg) Grand Slam bomb, 1945.

Long range bombing raids were carried out at night by multi-engined biplanes such as the Gotha G.IV (whose name was synonymous with all multi-engine German bombers) and later the Handley Page Type O the majority of bombing was done by single-engined biplanes with one or two crew-members flying short distances to attack enemy lines and immediate hinterland. Arguably the most important bombers used in WWI were the French Breguet 14, British de Havilland DH-4, German Albatros C.III and Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets. When the war started, bombing was very crude (hand-held bombs were thrown over the side) yet by the end of the war long-range bombers equipped with complex mechanical bombing computers were being built, designed to carry large loads to destroy enemy industrial targets. This heavy bomber was unrivaled in the early stages of the war, as the Central Powers had no comparable aircraft until much later. The Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, became the first four-engine bomber to equip a dedicated strategic bombing unit during World War I. The Caproni Ca 1 was a twin-boom trimotor biplane that first saw action in 1915, when one was used to attack the Austrian air base at Aisovizza. While mainly used as a trainer, Avro 504s were briefly used as bombers at the start of the First World War by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) when they were used for raids on the German airship sheds. The first use of an air-dropped bomb (actually a hand grenade) was carried out by the Italians, by Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, during the 1911 Italo-Turkish war in Libya.

Petlyakov Pe-8, Soviet heavy bomber from 1936 Current examples: F-15E Strike Eagle, F/A-18 Hornet, Sukhoi Su-27, Xian JH-7, Dassault-Breguet Mirage 2000, and the Panavia Tornado historical examples: Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Hawker Typhoon, McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Mikoyan MiG-27.Ĭaproni Ca.3, an Italian World War I heavy bomber, 1915.īritish Handley Page Type O, 1918. This role is filled by tactical bomber class, which crosses and blurs with various other aircraft categories: light bombers, medium bombers, dive bombers, interdictors, fighter-bombers, attack aircraft, multirole combat aircraft, and others. Tactical bombing, aimed at countering enemy military activity and in supporting offensive operations, is typically assigned to smaller aircraft operating at shorter ranges, typically near the troops on the ground or against enemy shipping. Further information: Aerial interdiction and Attack aircraft