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A '''bomber''' is any [[aircraft]] whose primary function is to drop [[bomb]]s from the [[air]] onto a target on the ground or at [[sea]]. As such, a bomber is the airborne equivalent of [[artillery]].
Aerial bombardment began during [[World War I]] with the deployment by the [[Germany|Germans]] of the [[hydrogen]]-filled rigid [[airship]], or [[zeppelin]]. But not until [[World War II]] did such bombardment become a decisive factor in war. The decisiveness of the Allied bomber forces is due as much to the massive amounts of high-explosive and incendiary [[bomb]]s they dropped in Europe and in the Pacific as to the [[atomic bomb]] attacks on [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]].
Bombers--often armed with [[nuclear weapon]]s--formed part of the [[Strategic Nuclear Triad]] during the [[Cold War]], and always formed a key element of the firepower of the [[Strategic Air Command]].
[[Category:Aircraft]]
Aerial bombardment began during [[World War I]] with the deployment by the [[Germany|Germans]] of the [[hydrogen]]-filled rigid [[airship]], or [[zeppelin]]. But not until [[World War II]] did such bombardment become a decisive factor in war. The decisiveness of the Allied bomber forces is due as much to the massive amounts of high-explosive and incendiary [[bomb]]s they dropped in Europe and in the Pacific as to the [[atomic bomb]] attacks on [[Hiroshima]] and [[Nagasaki]].
Bombers--often armed with [[nuclear weapon]]s--formed part of the [[Strategic Nuclear Triad]] during the [[Cold War]], and always formed a key element of the firepower of the [[Strategic Air Command]].
[[Category:Aircraft]]