The Doolittle Raid's B-25s were the only aircraft to bomb Tokyo until 1944, when B-29 Superfortresses began operating from the Mariana Islands. The B-25 bomber soldiered in every theater of war, excelling in multiple roles, chiefly as a ground-attack aircraft later in the war. B-25J of the Burma Bridge Busters, 490th Bombardment SquadronThe Conventional Weapons Module, fitted into each of the B-1B’s three internal bomb bays, can carry up to twenty-eight Mk.82 high-explosive five-hundred-pound bombs or eight Mk. 84 two-thousand
The B-52 already has the capability to carry the MOP bomb internally, and the pylon upgrade would allow it to also carry MOAB bombs. The B-52 can carry a maximum of 70,000 pounds of bombs, making
The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber aircraft has become the first U.S. warplane to be cleared to carry the B61-12, the newest nuclear bomb on the block. A B-2 Spirit drops one of two GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator bunker-busting bombs as seen in a Boeing's new F-15EX can carry 29,500 pounds of weapons according to the company. Each B-2 can carry up to 16 nuclear bombs (the B61-7, B61-11, and B83-1 gravity bombs), and each B-52 H can carry up to 20 air-launched cruise missiles (the AGM-86B). B-52 H bombers are no longer assigned gravity bombs (Kristensen 2017b). U2wQV.