Sentence examples for bomber fleet from inspiring English sources

And for a bomber fleet conceived during the Carter years.

Russia's bomber fleet has been a favored piece in geopolitical gamesmanship with the United States.

Northrop Grumman served as the prime contractor for and currently maintains the B-2 stealth bomber fleet for the U.S. Air Force.

In part this is because of fast-emerging new threats and in part because the average age of America's current bomber fleet, consisting of 76 geriatric B-52s, 63 B-1s and 20 B-2s, is 38 years.

Congress recently rebuffed Mr. Rumsfeld's bid to retire a third of the B-1 bomber fleet and has reacted coolly to his request to establish a new base-closing commission.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia would periodically send its aging bomber fleet on missions, but only during major military training exercises; the country was too poor to fly the planes often.

It also continued to make marginal upgrades in the systems of its older bomber fleets.

Bomber fleets had to fly high to avoid anti-aircraft fire from the ground, so even if the weather was clear, they were often unable to locate their targets effectively.

As Overy shows, poor visibility, the sudden deterioration of weather conditions, malfunctioning equipment, outdated and slow-moving aircraft, pilot inexperience or crew exhaustion, and enemy action varying from anti-aircraft batteries to night-fighters or the jamming of navigation beams, all reduced the effectiveness of bomber fleets.

The Dornier 17 was a mainstay of the German bomber fleets during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

The aircraft was a mainstay of the German bomber fleets during the Battle of Britain in 1940.