The American-made B-29 Stratofortress, designed to replace the B-17 and B-24, revolutionized aerial warfare with its ...

During WWII, five bombers stood out for their strategic impact: the American B-29 Superfortress, famed for firebombing Tokyo ...

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The B-29 was a revolutionary new bomber with a number of novel innovations. It was used to flatten entire Japanese cities and ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... Twenty-one days after the test, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later the plutonium bomb ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

New nuclear-capable planes and upgrades to old equipment are coming. Will they deter warfare or lead to an arms race?

And then, barely weeks before the European war ended, the world’s first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on ...

Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

On 6 August 1945 at 08:15 Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber plane named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war.