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Bombowiec średniego zasięgu, zdolny do osiągania prędkości przydźwiękowych. Jego zadaniem była penetracja przestrzeni powietrznej ZSRR. Był podstawową maszyną amerykańskich sił uderzeniowych w latach 50, do czasu, gdy zastąpiony został w tej roli przez samolot Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft.
The Stratojet was the first production bomber to utilize the unique "bicycle" type landing gear, although not the first aircraft to be so equipped. Other variations of the B-47 include the reconnaissance and weather-photo types as the RB-47E and RB-47K.
1 gru 1997 · The Air Force’s B-47 bomber was radically new in design, a sleek, swept-wing beauty built with all the expertise that Boeing had acquired in World War II and inspired by the latest and best in American and German technology. Unlike previous aircraft, the new bomber was powered by six jet engines.
1 lut 2013 · The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was the perfect strategic weapon for its time, so feared by its enemies that the bomber never had to perform its lethal nuclear mission. The Soviet leadership knew the B-47—swiftly deployed in ever greater numbers—gave the United States an unstoppable nuclear strike force.
The B-47 became the first true modern bomber to fill the ranks of General Curtiss Lemay's new Strategic Air Command. With long range, high altitude capabilities, the "Stratojet" became the backbone of SAC in the early 1950s.
The B-47 Stratojet in the Cold War. The B-47 Stratojet became an essential component of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as a nuclear bomber and a reconnaissance aircraft.
