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57 Squadron Avro Lancaster with the “Usual” area bombing load of a 4,000lb bomb and 12 Small Bomb Containers, each filled with 4lb incendiary bombs. 4,000 lb bomb being loaded onto de Havilland Mosquito. A blockbuster bomb or cookie was any of several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the […]

B-52H serial 60-0036 operated by the 412th Test Wing’s 419th Flight Test Squadron conducts a captive carry test with a prototype of the hypersonic AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) on June 12. B-52H CARRIAGE TESTS UNDER WAY AT EDWARDS AFB The USAF conducted the first flight test of its hypersonic AGM-183A Air Launched […]

This Me110G-4 mounts the huge ‘stag-antler’ antennae of the metre-wave Lichtenstein SN-2. However, the small aerial cluster in the centre of the nose gives away that this aircraft is equipped with the SN-2b radar. These early SN-2 sets had a very large minimum range, and so a second radar set from a Lichtenstein C-1 was […]