Word: bombload
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...bombers, in fact, were able to walk their sticks of bombs to within 100 yds. of the perimeter of the Marine bastion. Flying the 5,200 mile round trip from their Guam base, they averaged 40 to 50 strikes each day. Hardly an hour passed without a bombload falling on the Communists. In ten weeks, a total of 103,500 tons of explosives were dumped on the five-mile-square battlefield around the base...
...Stratoforts swept in at 15,000 ft. from their base on Guam, 2,600 miles away. En route, two of the $8,000,000 planes collided while refueling off the Philippines, and over the target area another plane was unable to release its bombload because of a mechanical failure. The remaining bombers unloaded a torrent of high explosives-270 tons in all-on the tangled forest floor. Then they wheeled for home, confident that they had dispersed the Viet Cong and killed many. But had they...
Douglas claims that the plane is the smallest and lightest jet combat plane ever built in the U.S. It has a 39-ft.-long fuselage and short, 25-ft., batlike wings, only half the spread of the Skyraider. But the plane has the range and bombload (including the Abomb) to match most World War II medium bombers. The engine is a Wright J-65 turbojet (7,200 Ibs. of thrust), and though its speed is a tightly guarded secret, experts say it can outrace Russia's latest-model MIG interceptors, make its way home without escort...
...Iliushin). Three-or four-place, twin-jet medium bomber. Speed, about 600 m.p.h.; range, around 2,000 miles; bombload, unknown, but a Red navy version has been fitted to carry a torpedo. Armament, two 37-mm. cannon in the nose, twin 12.7-mm. machine guns in side, top and tail turrets...
...Tupolev). Direct copy of the U.S. B29. Speed, about 400 m.p.h.; range, 4,000-5,000 miles; bombload, 10,000 Ibs.; armament, 10-20-mm. cannon in four turrets. Tupolev has also built a long-nosed version of the B29, which some observers at the Aviation Day show mistook fora...