GOAT US Heavy Bomber?

YellowSnow

RaceBannon

B-52 Stratofortress

My uncle flew the B 29 but the B 52 is the GOAT of all GOATS

YellowSnow

B-29 Superfortress

The B-29 finished off a war and saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and millions of Japanese ones. And yes @BearsWiin the Red Army invading Manchuria played a major role here as well.

YellowSnow

B-29 Superfortress

RaceBannon said:

My uncle flew the B 29 but the B 52 is the GOAT of all GOATS

A strong case can be made for the B-52. The service life is w/o peer. It would be like having B-29s still dropping bombs in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

We'll never know how many millions of American lives were saved by heavy the B-52s ready to nuke the Ruskies into oblivion.




But still, it never truly won us a war in the same way the B-29 did.

GrundleStiltzkin

B-52 Stratofortress

There's an interesting story that my History Guysm probably know better, about the Soviets getting hold of 4 B-29s after emergency landings in their territory. They copied them, slavishly, including using imperial measurements when the engineers only knew metric,

YellowSnow

B-29 Superfortress

GrundleStiltzkin said:

There's an interesting story that my History Guysm probably know better, about the Soviets getting hold of 4 B-29s after emergency landings in their territory. They copied them, slavishly, including using imperial measurements when the engineers only knew metric,

I saw a great doc once on this on the history channel. The planes were interned in the USSR when they were still neutral in the Pacific and the Ruskies copied them down to the last nut and bolt. We? first saw them at some air show and were like WTF?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4

GrundleStiltzkin

B-52 Stratofortress

Always had a soft spot for the F-111. I mean, Aardvark is a great name for a nuclear harbinger of death. And it's a penetrator, lulz

HFNY

B-17 Flying Fortress

The B-17 was the original so tough to turn my back on it.

Fishpo31

B-29 Superfortress

Gotta go with the B-29. Got my pops out of the South Pacific, freeing him up to focus on other things, like eventually making me...It is the most important airplane of my life, literally...

YellowSnow

B-29 Superfortress

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Always had a soft spot for the F-111. I mean, Aardvark is a great name for a nuclear harbinger of death. And it's a penetrator, lulz

Medium bomber poll.

dnc

B-17 Flying Fortress

I am nothing if not a homer.

Built in South Seattle.

Most famous one they made is the Memphis Belle.

Like I could vote for anything else.