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	F-117A Nighthawk - Military Aircraft
		The stealth fighter emerged from the classified world while stationed at Tonapah Airfield with an announcement by the Pentagon in November 1988 and was first shown publicly at Nellis in April 1990.
		Although only 36 stealth fighters were deployed in Desert Storm and accounted for 2.5 percent of the total force of 1,900 fighters and bombers, they flew more than a third of the bombing runs on the first day of the war.
		F-117 fighters deployed to the Gulf several times during the late 1990's to support U.S. attacks against Iraq designed to deprive Saddam Hussein of his Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs and to force his compliance with the UN monitoring regime.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117.htm (0 words)

	Royal Air Force Bomber Command
		They were to act as master bomber on raids against Rheydt and Munchen Gladbach.
		Although they used both Lancasters and Manchesters on all three 1,000 bomber raids (Cologne 30th/31st May 1942, Essen 1st/2nd June 1942, and Bremen 25/26th June 1942) - the third one against Bremen was the last one when the Manchesters were used.
		In October 1942, 106 contributed 10 Lancasters to 5 Group's epic low level daylight raid against the Schneider Works at Le Creusot, and 2 Lancasters (one of which was piloted by Wing Commander Guy Gibson CO of 106) to the subsidiary raid on the transformer and switching station at Montchanin.
	www.aviationartprints.com /raf_bombers.htm (1107 words)

	Amazon.com: Fighter-Bombers
		America's Stealth Fighters and Bombers: B-2, F-117, YF-22 and YF-23 by James Goodall (Paperback - Nov 12, 1992)
		the new generation of American fighters and bombers:...
		Zerstorer-Luftwaffe Fighter Bombers and Destroyers 1936-1940 Volume 1 (Luftwaffe Colours) by John Vasco (Paperback - Jan 14, 2006)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Fighter-Bombers&index=blended&page=1 (471 words)

	Korea 1950-1953 Significant Events: 1953 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bomber Command scheduled B-29 attacks as irregularly as possible and planned missions against heavily defended targets during the dark of the moon.
		Bomber Command meant to conduct raids in MiG Alley for the duration of the war in spite of improved enemy air capabilities, including more jet light bombers, more early warning and ground control intercept units, and a new ground control approach system.
		Bomber Command B-29s and Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers coordinated attacks on railroad complexes to disrupt the flow of supplies from Manchuria to enemy forward areas.
	afhra.maxwell.af.mil /korean_war/korean_war_chronology/kwc_1953.html (6059 words)

	Chapter 9 (pp 391-428)
		The fighter reserve was designated as a reinforcing force for air combat, the repulsion of the surprise approach of enemy fighter-bombers, covering the withdrawal of friendly fighters from combat and their subsequent landing at their airfields.
		Fighters flying in the barrier zone deployed around the edge of the searchlight illumination field so that the pilots would be able to carry out continuous observation of the actions of the searchlights as they searched for the target.
		Fighter aviation was normally used on the distant and near approaches to the protected object, and the antiaircraft artillery destroyed the enemy when he was immediately over the object.
	www.korean-war.com /Russia/KoreaPoligon391-428.html (11056 words)

	In Defense of Fighters
		Fighters and bombers have been magnets for criticism and controversy all through the history of war in the air and never more so than when the bill for enhanced capability comes due.
		Scratch the surface of the fighter debate and one of the first problems to arise is the widespread perception that a mafia of fighter pilots is willing to sacrifice other systems and even transformational capabilities to preserve their single-seat cockpits and silk scarves.
		Fighters succeeded in the Gulf War because their greater survivability--whether in the form of air combat maneuvering or stealth--gave them the widest range of potential action in the battlespace and because they had the latest technology for precision attack.
	www.afa.org /magazine/July2002/0702fighter.asp (3086 words)

	Chapter 9 (pp 428-473)
		Fighters allocated for this purpose independently flew to an area where they were ordered to arrive 3-5 minutes prior to the bombers or simultaneously with them.
		Large groups of American fighters, operating as part of the "screen", were easily acquired on radar and that gave the OVA fighters the opportunity to make a surprise strike against the "screen," easily pass through the "screen", and then successfully repel the raids by bomber aviation.
		American bombers made wide use of radar, supporting their approach to the target and bombing in heavy weather conditions and at night, as well as the bombers making use of radar jamming sets against gun aiming radar, as well as letting the bombers operate with various incendiary means.
	www.korean-war.com /Russia/KoreaPoligon428-473.html (11873 words)

	LemaireSoft's British fighter: global (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Their role as nighttime bombers would have been almost forgotten had not the famous Mosquito be one of them (it fulfilled other kind of missions too).
		In 1944, it was the only one able to take on the V 1, a duty it had to fulfill until the end of the year, before it could face the remnants of the Luftwaffe on the continent.
		The Gladiator was the last of a lineage of biplane fighters, largely used by the RAF in the twenties and thirties.
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /avion/avion2/5329.html (1191 words)

	fighter - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fighter Aircraft, fast, highly maneuverable military aircraft designed to destroy enemy aircraft.
		Fighter-bombers, also known as strike fighters, are much smaller then strategic bombers.
		bomber, convertiplane, fighter, fighter-bomber, helicopter gunship, stealth bomber, transport, VTOL, aeroplane, airliner, airplane, airship,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /fighter.html (123 words)

	Ground attack aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While machine guns and cannon were sufficient against infantry and light vehicles, and one or two small bombs could be easily fitted to most fighters, for operations against tanks heavier weapons such as the 40 mm Vickers S gun or high explosive rockets (such as the RP-3 60 lb rocket) were needed.
		By the end of that war the average day fighter was more than capable enough to carry out the ground attack role, and some of the most successful designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and the unmodified Hawker Typhoon.
		Although close air support and interdiction remain crucial to the modern battlefield, attack aircraft are less glamorous than fighters, and both pilots and military planners have a certain well-cultivated contempt for 'mud-movers.' More practically, the extra cost of a dedicated ground attack aircraft is harder to justify as opposed to having multi-role aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fighter_bomber (1461 words)

	USAAF Chronology, Mediterranean : 1944, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Almost 500 bombers attack targets in France; B-17s bomb the Montpellier marshalling yards; B-24s bomb Beziers marshalling yards and Toulon submarine pens and harbor installations; close to 200 fighter sorties are flown in support of the missions.
		Fighters fly escort and carry out patrols and sweeps in the Brod-Zagreb, Yugoslavia and Ploesti-Bucharest, Rumania areas; bombers and fighters claim 70+ enemy aircraft shot down.
		In Italy, the detachments of the 27th and 71st Fighter Squadrons, 1st Fighter Group, operating from Aghione, Corsica with P-38s, return to base at Salsola Airfield; and the detachment of the 37th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, operating from Corsica with P-38s, returns to base at Triolo Airfield.
	www.milhist.net /usaaf/mto44b.html (9146 words)

	Spitfire History of our Airworthy Spitfire Plane
		On May 9, 1944 the aircraft was transferred to the 154 Squadron of the RAF and its identifier was changed to HT-W. Here it operated from the island of Corsica on 95 missions flying bomber escorts for the American forces over northern Italy and in support of the southern invasion of France.
		It was moved to a playground at a kibbutz in Kabri, near the border of Lebanon.
		I have seen modern jet fighter bombers of that squadron having this same makings many years after the war.
	www.fighterfactory.net /aircraft-history/spitfire-history.php (1036 words)

	Air Force Technology - F-117A Nighthawk - Stealth Fighter Attack Aircraft
		The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter attack aircraft was developed by Lockheed Martin after work on stealth technology, and the predecessor test demonstrator aircraft, Have Blue, was carried out in secret from 1975.
		Development of the F-117A began in 1978 and it was first flown in 1981, but it was not until 1988 that its existence was publicly announced.
		The aircraft can carry a range of tactical fighter ordnance in the weapons bay, including BLU-109B low-level laser-guided bomb, GBU-10 and GBU-27 laser-guided bomb units, Raytheon AGM-65 Maverick and Raytheon AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missiles.
	www.airforce-technology.com /projects/f117 (891 words)

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