{"id":92899,"date":"2024-07-23T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-supersonic-bombers-cold-war\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T12:00:11","slug":"top-5-supersonic-bombers-of-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=92899","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Supersonic Bombers Of The Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    During the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/cold-war\/\">Cold War<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">United States<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/soviet-union\/\">Soviet Union<\/a> (along with some other countries) operated <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-strategic-bomber-aircraft-list\/\">fleets of supersonic and strategic bombers<\/a>. As the dynamics of war change, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-new-b-21-raider-stealth-bomber-flight-testing-edwards-afb\/\">new bombers (such as the B-21 Raider)<\/a> rely on stealth and not speed (the B-21 Raider is believed to be subsonic). In the Cold War, the philosophy may have been, &#8220;<em>You can&#8217;t hide, but you can run<\/em>,&#8221; today, the development of stealth and air defense missiles means &#8220;<em>you can&#8217;t run, but you can hide<\/em>.&#8221; Here are five iconic supersonic bombers from the Cold War.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and USSR built several impressive supersonic bombers &#8211; some of which remain in service today.<\/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":[396,1455,408,819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bomber","category-history","category-supersonic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92900,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92899\/revisions\/92900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}