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Parent topics
- Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. [e]
- Stealth [r]: The popular term for a collection of techniques that make a military vehicle (air, space, land, sea, or undersea) hard to detect and harder to direct weapons against [e]
- Unified Combatant Command [r]: Operational line-of-commands for United States military groups. [e]
Subtopics
- Eighth Air Force [r]: The organization currently "owning" the bombers, information operations, and most intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force; it conducted strategic bombing against Germany in the Second World War [e]
- Whiteman Air Force Base [r]: U.S. Air Force base in Missouri, home to the only wing of B-2 "stealth" bombers [e]
- United States Strategic Command [r]: The U.S. unified headquarters for the missions of worldwide nuclear and conventional precision strike; command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of strategic operations; global network operations of the Global Information Grid, information operations, ballistic missile defense, and reduction of Weapons of Mass Destruction threats [e]
- United States Central Command [r]: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General David Petraeus [e]
- Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- United States Pacific Command [r]: The U.S. Unified Combatant Command, headquartered in Hawaii, and responsible for the Pacific and East Asia [e]
- Guam [r]: A civilian-governed U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific, it is a major U.S. military base, including a prepositioning ship squadron and Anderson Air Force Base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- Anderson Air Force Base [r]: A major U.S. Air Force base on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam; a major launching site for ARC LIGHT and Operation LINEBACKER II B-52 bombers in the Vietnam War; forward base for B-2 Spirit stealth bombers operating in the Western Pacific [e]
- Guam [r]: A civilian-governed U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific, it is a major U.S. military base, including a prepositioning ship squadron and Anderson Air Force Base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
Other related topics
- B83 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear gravity bomb whose variable yield can be set to the highest of any deployed U.S. nuclear weapon [e]
- B61 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear fusion device implemented as a "tactical" gravity bomb that has a low to medium variable yield; the B61-11 version has limited ground penetration capability [e]
- Joint Direct Action Munition [r]: An add-on guidance kit that converts a standard "dumb bomb" into a precision-guided munition [e]
- Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
- F-117 Nighthawk [r]: Although it has a fighter designation, actually the first operational stealth light bomber of the U.S. Air Force [e]
