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A light bomber is a relatively small and fast type of military bomber aircraft that was primarily employed before the 1950s. Such aircraft would typically not carry more than one ton of ordnance. The dedicated light bomber disappeared as fighters, due to advancements in powerplants and aircraft design, were eventually able to deliver equal or greater bomb loads while also carrying out other missions and roles.
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The air base facilities had also been beefed up: Sunan was the new home to one full air combat command, including a light bomber regiment, two ground-attack air regiments, five interceptor regiments, ten transport regiments, and three air defense regiments.
There is more activity than usual on the light bomber airfields facing NATO, but so far no positive indication that an attack is intended.
They'd come in aboard a light bomber, racing in at low level to a military airport east of Berlin, no more than four staff members to an aircraft.
Most of the slower-than-light bomber consisted of fuel containment vessels, and the huge inverted funnel of the ram field generator.
He had been looking toward the landing strip and a car racing toward the shipa car whose dust trail led back to the light bomber.
It was a Douglas light bomber with a Pratt-Whitney engine, probably 750 horsepower.
Harried, the coralskippers and picket vessels that formed the tips of the tentacles began to disperse, and as soon as they did the dagger-shaped TIE interceptors and light bomber Y-wings were on them, weaving through the budding chaos with blinding speed and loosing proton torpedoes and bursts of high-powered laserfire.