The Convair B58 Hustler was the world's first operational Mach 2 bomber. Designed to fly high and fast to quickly penetrate the soviet union and deliver its nuclear payload, The B58 served for nearly ...

While the B-58 was a bomber, it had no internal bomb bay and at first carried only a single nuclear weapon alongside fuel in a special bomb and fuel pod beneath the fuselage. Eventually ...

Armament-wise, the B-58 didn’t have a bomb bay but could carry one nuclear weapon externally with the centerline fuel pod fitting over it; four weapons, whether nuclear or conventional ...

Yet it never did see flight, while the B-58 bomber itself only had a 10-year career. The Air Force only built 116, and retired them in 1970 in favor of the big, slow B-52.

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.16394407.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.16394407.2 When the B-58 Hustler bomber entered service in 1958 it was a very futuristic looking ...

Powered by four General Electric J79 engines housed in underwing pods and featuring a large delta wing design, the Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational bomber capable of reaching Mach 2.