First Flights with Neil Armstrong

Supersonic Bombers: The Elusive Search (2x6)

Air date: Apr 08, 1992

At the height of the cold war in the 1960s, the U.S. and Soviet Union raced to build huge supersonic bombers capable of delivering nuclear payloads. High costs and the accuracy of high speed cruise missiles changed priorities, and the U.S. bombers developed in the 1980s were subsonic: the low-flying, radar evading B-1B and the B-2 Stealth Bomber.