Also flew as pathfinders for high-altitude bombers.

Inevitably, though, they run a much greater risk of ground fire than the high-altitude bombers have faced.

The missiles had been intended to shoot down high-altitude Soviet bombers.

The weapon was intended to counter high-altitude nuclear-armed bombers before they could release their weapons.

The morning of 3 August 1942, she found her antiaircraft guns of little use against two attacks by high-altitude Japanese bombers.

On the 8th, about 20 high-altitude bombers attacked the transport area, and Southard succeeded in shooting down at least one enemy plane.

But since the Kosovo campaign in 1999, the Pentagon has modified high-altitude bombers, including B-52's, to perform this same mission with much less risk to the pilots.

The original B-1 was to have been a supersonic, high-altitude nuclear bomber.

The long-standing Air Corps tactic for attacking shipping called for large formations of high-altitude bombers.

Though the B-29 was designed as a high-altitude daytime bomber, it was used extensively in low-altitude night-time incendiary bombing missions.