U.S. defense strategy evolves with 6th-generation aircraft, including the B-21 Raider and F-47, promising advances in stealth ...

The B-47 Bomber. In 1944, shortly before the end of the Second World War, the U.S. Army Air Forces, the forerunner to the U.S. Air Force, issued a requirement for a medium bomber powered by jet ...

The B-47 Stratojet was introduced in 1951 as a long-range, high-altitude, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-47 was designed to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft and deliver nuclear weapons deep ...

Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, serving in a reconnaissance role as the RB-47 to monitor the Soviet military and ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Nearly six decades after his last flight, retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gary Lee stood on the flightline ...

Modern aircraft in the U.S. Air Force is all, to some extent, derived from the B-47 Stratojet - one of the first jet-engine military planes in service.