{"id":153707,"date":"2024-12-02T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/the-only-3-air-forces-still-equipped-with-strategic-bombers\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:30:17","slug":"the-only-3-air-forces-still-equipped-with-strategic-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=153707","title":{"rendered":"The Only 3 Air Forces Still Equipped With Strategic Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Second World War, the Allied powers carried out some of the largest strategic bombing campaigns in history in both Europe and Asia, solidifying the role of strategic bombers in warfare for decades to come. When the United States deployed a pair of Boeing B-29 Superfortress<\/span><\/span> bombers on separate missions to Japan to deliver the only two nuclear weapons ever deployed in war, they demonstrated the importance of having a capable strategic bombing force in the new nuclear order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only the US, Russia, and China still operate these aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1455,8575,412,3434,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bomber","category-chinese-air-force","category-military","category-russian-air-force","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t