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Parent topics
- Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. [e]
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
Subtopics
Basing
- Anderson Air Force Base [r]: A major United States Air Force base on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam; a major launching site for ARC LIGHT and Operation Linebacker II B-52 bombers in the Vietnam War; forward base for B-2 Spirit stealth bombers operating in the Western Pacific [e]
- Barksdale Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Arkansas, having the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, commanding strategic bombers, and one of the two B-52 bomber wings [e]
- Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- Minot Air Force Base [r]: Located in North Dakota, it is one of two United States Air Force bases with a B-52 bomber wing, and is administratively under the Eighth Air Force. It also hosts the 91st Space Wing of LGM-30 Minuteman long-range ballistic missiles [e]
Weapons
- AGM-84 Harpoon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-86 ALCM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States nuclear weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Direct Action Munition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mark 8x series conventional bomb [r]: The main family of U.S. high-explosive unguided gravity bombs, to which guidance kits such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition or PAVEWAY laser guidance can be attached [e]
- Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AGM-142 Raptor [r]: Add brief definition or description
Avionics
- ALQ-172 [r]: Add brief definition or descriptionRadar detection and jamming
- ALR-20 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ALR-46 [r]: Add brief definition or description Radar warning receiver
- ALQ-122 [r]: Add brief definition or description Deceptive jammer
- ALQ-155 [r]: Add brief definition or description High power jammer
- ALE-20 [r]: Add brief definition or description Infrared flare decoy dispenser
- ALE-24 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/MSQ-77 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Operations
- Cold War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strategic Air Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Strategic Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- ARC LIGHT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation LINEBACKER II [r]: Add brief definition or description