High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A heavy bomber is a bomber aircraft of the largest size, and typically longest ranges. The term was used primarily prior to and during World War II, when engine power was so scarce that designs had to be carefully tailored to their missions. The heavy bomber was generally considered to be any design that delivered 8000 pounds (3600 kg) of bombs or more on distant targets, with medium bombers having loads of 4000 to 8000 pounds (1800 to 3600 kg), and light bombers 2000 to 4000 pounds (910 to 1800 kg). These distinctions were already disappearing by the middle of WWII, when the average fighter aircraft could now carry a 2000 pounds (910 kg) load and the "light" designs had now largely taken over the missions formerly filled by "mediums".

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