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
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