Medium Bomber - Examples

Examples

Introduced prior to WWII
  • Armstrong Whitworth Whitley - first of three British medium bombers
  • Bloch MB.210
  • CANT Z.1007
  • Dornier Do 23
  • Fiat BR.20 - first all-metal Italian bomber
  • Handley Page Hampden - British medium bomber, almost as fast as the Bristol Blenheim
  • Heinkel He 111 - considered a heavy bomber by the Luftwaffe for some missions
  • Ilyushin DB-3 - precursor to the Il-4 (see below)
  • Junkers Ju 86
  • Lioré et Olivier LeO 45 - fast French medium bomber
  • Mitsubishi G3M - known to the Allies as "Nell"
  • Mitsubishi Ki-21 - "Sally"; replaced some Fiat BR.20 bombers in Imperial Japanese Army Air Force service
  • PZL.37 Łoś
  • Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
  • Vickers Wellington - most-produced medium bomber, capable of a range of 2,500 miles
World War II
  • Dornier Do 217 - considered a heavy bomber by the Luftwaffe for some missions
  • Ilyushin Il-4 - long ranged Soviet bomber
  • Junkers Ju 88
  • Martin B-26 Marauder
  • Mitsubishi G4M - known to the Allies as "Betty"
  • Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryū - Allied reporting name "Peggy"; classified as heavy by Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
  • Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu - "Helen"
  • North American B-25 Mitchell
  • Tupolev Tu-2
  • Yermolayev Yer-2
  • Yokosuka P1Y Ginga - a medium bomber to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service; but in size, weight, speed etc. similar to Allied light bombers such as the Douglas A-26 Invader
Post war
  • English Electric Canberra
  • Ilyushin Il-28 - Soviet jet bomber
  • Martin B-57 Canberra - U.S. development of the Canberra
  • Boeing B-47 Stratojet - U.S. jet bomber
  • Convair B-58 Hustler - U.S. supersonic jet bomber
  • General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - U.S. swing-wing jet bomber

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