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The only US aircraft to carry a nuclear reactor was the NB-36H. The reactor was never actually connected to the engines. [1] The program was canceled in 1958. A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy.
The CL-1201 design project studied a nuclear-powered aircraft of extreme size, with a wingspan of 1,120 feet (340 m). [4] Had it been built, it would have had the largest wingspan of any airplane to date, [5] and more than three times that of any aircraft of the 20th century.
Buttler, Tony; Gordon, Yefim (2004). "Chapter 6: Nuclear Power and Flying Wings". Soviet secret projects : Bombers since 1945. Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-194-6. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012
The first American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was USS Enterprise, commissioned in 1961. All of US Navy's current carriers, which are a mix of Nimitz- and Ford-class carriers, are nuclear ...
Japan, South Korea and Poland [citation needed] are generally considered de facto nuclear states due to their believed ability to wield nuclear weapons within 1 to 3 years. [17] [18] [19] South Africa produced six nuclear weapons in the 1980s, but dismantled them in the early 1990s. South Africa signed the NPT in 1991.
US and Canadian fighter jets intercepted Russian and Chinese nuclear-capable bombers after they were detected near Alaska.. The Russian Tu-95MS “Bear” strategic bombers and Chinese Xi’an H-6 ...
The report states that a B-21 could fly 2,500 miles (4,000 km) without refueling while carrying more munitions as compared to the maximum 930 miles (1,500 km) range of the RAAF's F-35 fighter jets, which require air-to-air refueling. A single B-21 can also deliver the same impact as several F-35As.
The ANP program used modified B-36s to study shielding requirements for an airborne reactor to determine whether a nuclear-powered aircraft was feasible. [46] Convair modified two B-36s under the MX-1589 project. The Nuclear Test Aircraft was a B-36H-20-CF (serial number 51-5712) that had been damaged in a tornado at Carswell AFB on 1 September ...