XB-42 was a re-modified aircraft, previously known as XA-42. The Douglas Airplane Company came up with the XB-42 design in early 1943 after the US Army Air Force wanted a replacement for the XA-42. Back in 1939, General H. H. Arnold recommended that it is safer to fight the enemy with light bombers and bomb loads rather than depending on the machine guns of attack type aircrafts; this recommendation made the
F-15E officially first compatible fighter for B61-12 nuclear bomb
An F-15E strike fighter aircraft demonstrating weapon system deployment of an inert B61-12 munition at Sandia...
