A Bomber with Fighter Jets Stuck on Its Wings

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For World War 2 bomber crews, flying alone meant annihilation.
When fighter escorts reached their range limit and turned back, they became vulnerable targets.

A decade later, things hadn’t improved. This was especially true for American pilots tasked with penetrating Soviet airspace, a continent-wide fortress bristling with radars, missiles, and high-speed interceptors.

Escort fighters weren’t just impractical. They were impossible.
Smaller aircraft lacked the range. Only strategic bombers like the B-29 Superfortress could go the distance.

That’s when someone floated a radical idea:
The inspiration was almost absurd: grainy World War 1 footage of biplanes dangling from massive dirigibles.
In the atomic age, what if bombers carried their own fighters inside them?


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