Strategic Aviation En Route to Updating

... Hustler was retired in January 1970 Rocket and missile engineering dealt a heavy blow to strategic aviation. It appeared that the emergence of intercontinental ballistic missiles... ... aircraft in the 1970s-1980s, the United States and the Soviet Union began to establish new aviation complexes due to a number of unique features of strategic bombers compared... ... is no alternative but to develop new aircraft. The terms of New START (the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) are another incentive for the development of the strategic bombing...