Meet The A-36: The Supersonic Bomber Designed To Hit Russia With Nuclear Weapons.

Meet The A-36: The Supersonic Bomber Designed To Hit Russia With Nuclear Weapons.

The Project 1300 bomber was Sweden’s effort to build a bomber that could fly at supersonic speed to hit Russia with a nuclear weapon – or at least deter Russia from doing the same. The plane is also known as the A-36 – and it was never built:

During the 1950s Sweden may have maintained a policy of neutrality, yet it still sought to develop a rather well-stocked arsenal of domestically-produced military hardware.

From 1952-57 the Scandinavian nation even conducted a feasibility study to develop a delta-wing supersonic bomber that would have a nuclear strike capability.