Medium Bomber - Examples

Examples

Introduced prior to WWII

• Armstrong Whitworth Whitley - first of three British medium bombers
• Bloch MB.210
• CANT Z.1007
• Dornier Do 23
• Fiat BR.20 - first all-metal Italian bomber
• Handley Page Hampden - British medium bomber, almost as fast as the Bristol Blenheim
• Heinkel He 111 - considered a heavy bomber by the Luftwaffe for some missions
• Ilyushin DB-3 - precursor to the Il-4 (see below)
• Junkers Ju 86
• Lioré et Olivier LeO 45 - fast French medium bomber
• Mitsubishi G3M - known to the Allies as "Nell"
• Mitsubishi Ki-21 - "Sally"; replaced some Fiat BR.20 bombers in Imperial Japanese Army Air Force service
• PZL.37 Łoś
• Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
• Vickers Wellington - most-produced medium bomber, capable of a range of 2,500 miles

World War II

• Dornier Do 217 - considered a heavy bomber by the Luftwaffe for some missions
• Ilyushin Il-4 - long ranged Soviet bomber
• Junkers Ju 88
• Martin B-26 Marauder
• Mitsubishi G4M - known to the Allies as "Betty"
• Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryū - Allied reporting name "Peggy"; classified as heavy by Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
• Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu - "Helen"
• North American B-25 Mitchell
• Tupolev Tu-2
• Yermolayev Yer-2
• Yokosuka P1Y Ginga - a medium bomber to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service; but in size, weight, speed etc. similar to Allied light bombers such as the Douglas A-26 Invader

Post war

• English Electric Canberra
• Ilyushin Il-28 - Soviet jet bomber
• Martin B-57 Canberra - U.S. development of the Canberra
• Boeing B-47 Stratojet - U.S. jet bomber
• Convair B-58 Hustler - U.S. supersonic jet bomber
• General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - U.S. swing-wing jet bomber