
	Where results make sense

Topic: Strategic bomber

Related Topics

Bomber

Strategic bombing

Carpet bombing

Tactical bombing

Vickers Valiant

Air interdiction

Bomb

Short Stirling

Handley Page Victor

Backfire

Avro Vulcan

Close air support

Military aircraft

Avro Lancaster

Gothaer Waggonfabrik

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Strategic bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Strategic bombing is a military strategem used in a total war style campaign that attempts to destroy the economic ability of a nation-state to wage war.
		It is different from the tactical event of strategic bombing, which involves strategic bomber aircraft, cruise missiles, or fighter-bomber aircraft attacking targets determined during the organization of the strategic bombing campaign.
		Strategic bombing in Europe never reached the decisive completeness that the American bombing campaign in Japan achieved, helped in part by the fragility of Japanese housing which was particularly vulnerable to the use of incendiary bombs.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Strategic_bombing (2681 words)

	Bomber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strategic bombers are primarily designed for long-range strike missions against strategic targets such as supply bases, bridges, factories, and shipyards in order to damage an enemy's war effort.
		The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the advent of the intercontinental ballistic missile, which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.
		Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to 'theater' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bomber (1115 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bomber
		In the past, bombers were an obvious separate type, and often looked dramatically different from other types as well.
		This was due largely to the lack of power in aircraft engines, meaning that in order to carry any reasonable warload, the designs had to carry multiple engines.
		Engine power was so scarce that designs had to be tailored to one particular niche; during World War II there were dive bombers, light, medium and heavy bombers, and specialized ground attack designs.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bomber (786 words)

	Luftwaffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For example, bombers were in Kampfgruppe (bomber group) 88, abbreviated to K/88, and fighters in Jagdgruppe (fighter group) 88, J/88.
		A chain of radar stations was established All across the Reich territory from Norway to the border with Switzerland known as the "Kammhuber Line", named for Generalleutnant Josef Kammhuber, and nearby night-fighter wings, Nachtjagdgeschwader (NJG), were alerted to the presence of the enemy.
		The aircraft was still plagued by reliability problems of its powerplants, however: while the Junkers Jumo 004 engines were of the advanced axial-flow design, they suffered from a lack of high-quality strategic materials required during the manufacturing process, a result of the Allied bombing offensive and the turn of War fortunes for Germany.
	luftwaffe.iqnaut.net (3741 words)

	Peter Levine: August 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A key strategic issue for the current White House—perhaps a determinative issue for historians—will be its success or failure in getting subsequent administrations to sustain the political and economic development policies that truly winning the War On Terror will entail.
		Blair set in motion a chain of events that led to the bombings, but the bombers are completely responsible for what they did, and Blair is completely innocent of it.
		She writes, "The strategic bomber aims at military targets while foreseeing that bombing such targets will cause civilian deaths.
	www.peterlevine.ws /mt/archives/2005_08.html (7645 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)