Tactical bombers

Information about Tactical bombers

A tactical bomber is a relatively small aircraft used in the battle zone to attack troops and military equipment for tactical bombing.

Tactical bombers of note include:

World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Angola (Angola, South Africa, Cuba)
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Iraq/Afghanistan
Chechnya

See also

aircraft is a vehicle which is able to fly through the air (or through any other atmosphere). All the human activity which surrounds aircraft is called aviation. (Most rocket vehicles are not aircraft because they are not supported by the surrounding air).
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Tactical bombing uses aircraft to attack troops and military equipment in the battle zone. This is in contrast to strategic bombing, which attacks an enemy's cities and factories to debilitate the enemy's capacity to wage war as well as the civilian population's will to continue
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Type Medium bomber
Manufacturer Glenn L. Martin Company
Designed by Peyton M. Magruder
Maiden flight 25 November 1940
Introduced 1941
Status Retired
Primary user United States Army Air Force
Produced
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Type Medium bomber
Manufacturer North American Aviation
Designed by John Leland "Lee" Atwood
Maiden flight 19 August 1940
Introduction 1941
Retired 1979 (Indonesia)
Primary user United States Army Air Forces

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Type Fast bomber, fighter-bomber, and night fighter
Manufacturer de Havilland Aircraft Company
Designed by Ronald Bishop
Maiden flight 25 November 1940
Introduction 1941
Retired 1956
Primary users Royal Air Force
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Type Fighter-bomber
Manufacturer Hawker Aircraft/Gloster
Designed by Sidney Camm
Maiden flight 24 February 1940
Introduced 1941
Primary users RAF
RCAF
Number built 3,330 The Typhoon
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Type Bomber
Manufacturer Dornier Flugzeugwerke
Maiden flight 23 November 1934<ref name="Dressel and Griehl 1994, p. 25." >Dressel and Griehl 1994, p. 25.
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Type Medium bomber
Manufacturer Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
Designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter
Maiden flight 24 February 1935
Introduced 1936
Retired 1945
Primary user German Luftwaffe
Produced 1935-1944
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Type Ground attack
Manufacturer Henschel
Maiden flight 25 May 1939
Introduced April 1942
Retired 1945
Primary users Luftwaffe
Hungarian Air Force
Romanian Air Force
Produced
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Type dive bomber
Manufacturer Junkers
Introduction 1937
Retired 1945
Primary users Luftwaffe
Regia Aeronautica
Number built 5,752

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Type Dive bomber/Tactical bomber/Night fighter
Manufacturer Junkers
Maiden flight 21 December 1936
Introduced 1939
Retired 1951 (France)
Primary user Luftwaffe
Number built 15,000
Variants
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Type Ground attack aircraft
Manufacturer Ilyushin, Avia
Maiden flight 18 April 1944[1]
Introduced 1944
Retired 1962 (Czechoslovakia)
Primary users Soviet Air Force
Czechoslovak Air Force
Polish Air Force

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Type Light bomber
Manufacturer Tupolev
Maiden flight 29 January 1941
Introduced 1941
Primary user Soviet Air Forces
Produced 1941-1948 The Tupolev Tu-2 (Development names ANT-58 and 103
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Type Bomber
Manufacturer Petlyakov
Designed by Vladimir Petlyakov
Maiden flight 22 December 1939
Introduction 1941
Retired 1954 (SFR Yugoslav Air Force)
Primary users Soviet Air Force
SFR Yugoslav Air Force
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Type Heavy fighter
Manufacturer Petlyakov
Designed by Vladimir Petlyakov
Maiden flight 1941
Introduction 1941
Primary users Soviet Air Force
Finnish Air Force
Number built about 1,300 The Petlyakov Pe-3
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Type Carrier-based fighter aircraft
Manufacturer Chance Vought
Designed by Rex Beisel

Maiden flight 29 April 1940
Introduction 28 December 1942
Retired 1953
Primary users U.S.
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Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Joint stock company
Founded December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942)
Headquarters Moscow, Russia

Key people Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, founder
Industry Aerospace and defense
Products Military aircraft
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Type Fighter
Manufacturer Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB
Maiden flight 14 June 1956
Introduced 1959
Primary users Soviet Air Force
Indian Air Force
Polish Air Force
Vietnam People's Air Force
Number built 10,000+[1]
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Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Joint stock company
Founded December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942)
Headquarters Moscow, Russia

Key people Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, founder
Industry Aerospace and defense
Products Military aircraft
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Type Fighter
Manufacturer Mikoyan-Gurevich
Maiden flight 14 January 1950
Introduced October 1952
Primary users Soviet Air Force
PLA Air Force
Vietnam People's Air Force
Polish Air Force
Number built 10,000-/+

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Type Fighter-bomber
Manufacturer Republic Aviation Company
Designed by Alexander Kartveli
Maiden flight 2 October 1955
Introduced 27 May 1958
Retired 25 February 1984
Primary user United States Air Force

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Type Fighter-bomber
Manufacturer McDonnell Douglas
(née McDonnell Aircraft)
Designed by David S. Lewis, Jr.
Maiden flight 27 May 1958
Introduction 30 December 1960
Status
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Type Attack aircraft
Manufacturer Grumman
Maiden flight 19 April 1960
Introduced 1963
Retired 1997
Primary users United States Navy
United States Marine Corps
Number built 693
Unit cost
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Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Joint stock company
Founded December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942)
Headquarters Moscow, Russia

Key people Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, founder
Industry Aerospace and defense
Products Military aircraft
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Type Fighter
Manufacturer Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB
Maiden flight 14 June 1956
Introduced 1959
Primary users Soviet Air Force
Indian Air Force
Polish Air Force
Vietnam People's Air Force
Number built 10,000+[1]
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Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG

Joint stock company
Founded December 1939 (As OKB-155 in 1942)
Headquarters Moscow, Russia

Key people Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, founder
Industry Aerospace and defense
Products Military aircraft
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Founded 1969
Headquarters One AMD Place
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Key people Héctor Ruiz, CEO
Industry Semiconductors
Products Microprocessors
Motherboard chipsets
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Type Fighter-bomber
Manufacturer Sukhoi OKB
Designed by Nikolai Zyrin
Maiden flight 1 July 1969
Introduction 1970
Retired 1998 Russian Air Force
Primary user Soviet Air Force
Russian Air Force
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