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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 U.S. 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]: U.S. 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 U.S. 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]: A U.S. developed anti-shipping missile that can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines [e]
- AGM-86 ALCM [r]: A long-range cruise missile that can be delivered anywhere in the world from U.S. bases, employing blast or precision penetrating warheads [e]
- United States nuclear weapons [r]: All U.S. nuclear weapons, past or present, in deployment, production, or approved for production; not including experimental devices [e]
- B61 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear fusion device implemented as a "tactical" gravity bomb that has a low to medium variable yield; the B61-11 version has limited ground penetration capability [e]
- B83 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear gravity bomb whose variable yield can be set to the highest (1-2 MtSymbol error) of any deployed U.S. nuclear weapon; uses LX-17 explosive [e]
- Joint Direct Attack Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard Mark 8x "dumb bomb", or ballistic equivalent, into a precision-guided munition, using inertial navigation enhanced with GPS satellite navigation [e]
- AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon [r]: A U.S. precision-guided munition, originally an unpowered guided bomb with much greater gliding range than the cheaper Joint Direct Attack Munition; powered variants with more extensive capabilities are in development [e]
- 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]: A strap-on inertial guidance correction kit for high-altitude release of cluster bomb units, including those not affected by restrictions on antipersonnel munitions such as antitank, microwave jammers, and electrical power line attack [e]
- AGM-142 Raptor [r]: Originally an Israel Aircraft Industries precision-guided standoff weapon called the POPEYE, then the AGM-142 HAVE NAP, the first standoff PGM for the B-52, and now used by the Royal Australian Air Force and Turkish Air Force [e]
Avionics
- AN/ALQ-172 [r]: An upgrade, from the unmaintainable AN/ALQ-117 of the "PAVE MINT" defensive electronic countermeasures system; controlled by AN/ALR-46 Radar Homing and Warning systems; manufactured by ITT; used in MC-130 COMBAT TALON, AC-130, B-52, E-3, E-4 and MC-130 COMBAT SPEAR [e]
- AN/ALR-20 [r]: Panoramic countermeasures radar warning receiver; manufactured by Tasker Inc.; part of AN/ALQ-27 used in B-52 Radar detection and threat prioritization [e]
- AN/ALR-46 [r]: Digital radar warning receiver manufactured by Litton (Dalmo Victor); used in B-52, A-10, C-130,RU-21H, HH-53; can control AN/ALQ-155 and AN/ALQ-172 noise jammers [e]
- AN/ALQ-122 [r]: Deceptive radar jammer used on the B-52 and E-3 aircraft, coupled with AN/ALT-16 power amplifiers, to generate false targets; complements ALQ-155/ALT-28 noise jammers against CW radar, and chaff (electronic warfare) [e]
- AN/ALQ-155 [r]: Obsolete high-power radar jammer, with no-longer-available Backwards Wave Oscillator components; replaced by AN/ALQ-172; controlled by AN/ALR-46 Radar Homing and Warning systems [e]
- AN/ALE-20 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/ALE-24 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- AN/ARC-164 [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