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    A fighter-bomber is a fighter aircraft that has been modified, or used primarily, as a light bomber or attack aircraft. It differs from bomber and attack...
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    debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers, penetrators, fighter-bombers, and attack aircraft, which are used in air interdiction...
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    tactical bomber class, which crosses and blurs with various other aircraft categories: light bombers, medium bombers, dive bombers, interdictors, fighter-bombers...
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    mission. The 386th Fighter-Bomber Group was activated on 8 April 1956 at Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana as part of the 323d Fighter-Bomber Wing. Assigned to...
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    niche as night fighters, especially in the bomber-destroyer role; or as fighter-bombers, roughly analogous to modern strike fighters. Among such conversions...
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  • includes fighters or other non-bomber variants Production figure includes reconnaissance variants Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bomber aircraft...
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    On 20 January 1951, the wing gained its new designation as the 8th Fighter Bomber Wing. On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting a war...
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    role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield permits bombers and attack...
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    194th Fighter Squadron on June 25, 1948. The 61st Fighter Wing was re-designated as the 144th Fighter Bomber Wing on November 1, 1950. The first aircraft assigned...
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    Lockheed Martin. Retrieved 2023-12-18. "General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark (Fighter-bomber)". Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. Retrieved 2023-12-18. "F-117 Nighthawk...
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    September 1974 411th Fighter Squadron, 15 August 1943 – 7 November 1945 Re-designated: 196th Fighter (later Fighter-Bomber, Fighter-Interceptor) Squadron...
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    fighter-bomber conversions of those same aircraft would be considered part of the class. Strike fighters, which have effectively replaced the fighter-bomber...
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    Sukhoi Su-34 (category Fourth-generation jet fighter)
    Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air...
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    convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft...
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    two squadrons of F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft. 48th Operations Group (48 OG) Formerly the 48th Fighter-Bomber Group. Provides two squadrons of F-35A...
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    was as follows: 12th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (F-80C, F-51D, F-86F) 67th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (F-80C, F-51D, F-86F) 39th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron...
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    the 366th Fighter Bomber Wing at Alexandria Air Force Base, Louisiana. It replaced the Federalized Iowa Air National Guard 132d Fighter Bomber Wing which...
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    Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry (usually bombs) and longest range (takeoff to landing)...
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    The escort fighter was a concept for a fighter aircraft designed to escort bombers to and from their targets. An escort fighter needed range long enough...
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    On 15 April 1957 the detached 49 Fighter-Bomber Group became a paper unit, and the wing assumed the fighter-bomber mission the group had been performing...
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    8th Fighter-Bomber Wing 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing 49th Fighter-Bomber Wing 58th Fighter-Bomber Wing 116th Fighter-Bomber Wing 136th Fighter-Bomber Wing...
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  • includes aircraft used as transports Production figure includes fighters or other non-bomber variants Production figure includes AEW variant Production figure...
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    December 1952. The 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing was activated at George AFB on 1 January 1953 with three (72d, 416th and 531st) Fighter-Bomber squadrons, equipped...
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    Xi'an JH-7 (category 1980s Chinese fighter aircraft)
    Chinese: 殲轟-7; pinyin: jiān hōng qī – fighter-bomber; NATO reporting name Flounder), also known as the FBC-1 (Fighter/Bomber China-1) Flying Leopard, is a Chinese...
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    performance and speed to help evade rapidly evolving fighter aircraft designs of the time. Some of these bombers, such as the Heinkel He 111, Junkers Ju 86, Savoia-Marchetti...
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    7 November 1945 48th Fighter-Bomber Group, 10 July 1952 48th Fighter-Bomber Wing (later 48th Tactical Fighter Wing, 48th Fighter Wing), 8 December 1957...
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    Second World War, night fighters were either purpose-built night fighter designs, or more commonly, heavy fighters or light bombers adapted for the mission...
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  • Bf 109, fighter + night-fighter (often mis-designated as the "Me 109") Messerschmitt Bf 110, heavy fighter + night fighter + fighter-bomber + ground-attack...
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    US-made fighter-bomber jets and trainers induced Yugoslav domestic aircraft industry (Soko, Utva) to make new jet trainers and fighter-bombers. After a...
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    Force, 4 January 1943 18th Fighter Group (later 18th Fighter-Bomber Group), 30 March 1943 Attached to 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing 25 July – 30 November 1950...
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