Best Bomber From Every Era Explained

The best bomber from every era, explained: the youngest B-52 still flying left the factory in 1962, and the US Air Force plans to keep it in the sky past 2050. Some of its pilots fly the same airframes their grandfathers flew. But does that make it the best bomber ever built? This animated history goes era by era through the bombers everybody knows: Igor Sikorsky's Ilya Muromets of 1914, the first four-engine plane with a cabin and a toilet; the German Gotha that bombed London in daylight and accidentally created the Royal Air Force; the Stuka and its "trumpet of Jericho" siren; the B-17 Flying Fortress and the crash that invented the pilot checklist; the Avro Lancaster and the Dambusters' bouncing bomb; the B-29 Superfortress and Stalin's exact copy, the Tu-4; the B-52 Stratofortress, designed over one weekend in a Dayton hotel; the Tu-95 Bear; the B-2 Spirit; and the final verdict. 0:00 Built in 1962 0:32 1914: Ilya Muromets 1:54 1917: the Gotha 3:34 1939: the Stuka 5:19 1938: the B-17 Flying Fortress 7:03 1942: the Lancaster 9:05 1944: the B-29 12:05 1955: the B-52 15:21 1956: the Tu-95 Bear 16:40 1997: the B-2 Spirit 18:36 The final verdict How this video was made: the script was researched from aviation histories, museum collections and veterans' accounts, cross-checked between sources, then written and narrated for this channel. Where sources disagree (Rudel's claimed tank kills, the Tu-4 repair patch story, how many crews survived 25 missions) we say so in the video. This is a history video, not a guide: nothing here explains how to build or use a weapon. Every scene is hand-drawn in our doodle style, and the real aircraft, people and places are shown in photographs. Sources: National Museum of the US Air Force; Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; RAF Museum, London; International Bomber Command Centre; Imperial War Museums; Bill Yenne, "B-52 Stratofortress"; Paul Brickhill, "The Dam Busters"; Igor Sikorsky Historical Archives. Figures are approximate. Real photos: Wikimedia Commons (authors and licences in the pinned comment). Next on Doodle Arsenal: the best fighter jet from every era. #B52 #Bomber #Lancaster #B17 #DoodleArsenal #MilitaryHistory #History #AviationHistory #B29 #Stuka #B2Spirit #WW2 #Warplanes #AnimatedHistory #EveryEra