First Flights with Neil Armstrong (19/39) : Supersonic Bombers - The Elusive Search

For educational purposes<br /><br />At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, the U.S. and Soviet Union raced to build huge supersonic bombers capable of delivering nuclear payloads. <br /><br />High costs and the accuracy of high speed cruise missiles changed priorities, and the U.S. bombers developed in the 1980s were subsonic: the low-flying, radar evading B-1B and the B-2 Stealth Bomber.<br /><br />Featured Aircraft: <br />- North American XB-70 Valkyrie<br />- General Dynamics F-111<br />- Rockwell B -1 Lancer