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The bomber gap was the Cold War belief that the Soviet Union's Long Range Aviation department had gained an advantage in deploying jet-powered strategic bombers. Widely accepted for several years, the gap was used as a political talking point in the United States to justify a great increase in defense spending. One result was a massive buildup of the US Air Force bomber fleet, which peaked at over 2500 bombers to counter the perceived Soviet threat. Surveillance flights by the U-2 aircraft indicated that the bomber gap did not exist.

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dbo:abstract The bomber gap was the Cold War belief that the Soviet Union's Long Range Aviation department had gained an advantage in deploying jet-powered strategic bombers. Widely accepted for several years, the gap was used as a political talking point in the United States to justify a great increase in defense spending. One result was a massive buildup of the US Air Force bomber fleet, which peaked at over 2500 bombers to counter the perceived Soviet threat. Surveillance flights by the U-2 aircraft indicated that the bomber gap did not exist. (en) La denominada brecha de los bombarderos fue la infundada creencia estadounidense durante los inicios de la Guerra Fría de que la Unión Soviética estaba obteniendo una decisiva ventaja en el número de bombarderos estratégicos (los que, hipotética y eventualmente, eran capaces de transportar bombas nucleares al corazón del territorio del enemigo). Esto incluía afirmaciones acerca de aviones VTOL (de despegue y aterrizaje vertical) supersónicos similares al fallido “platillo volador” canadiense Avrocar, incluso un bombardero de propulsión nuclear y, tan sólo unos pocos años después, la que sería denominada como brecha de los misiles. Uno de las consecuencias que tuvo eso fue el masivo incremento de la flota de bombarderos de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos (USAF), la cual alcanzó los 2.500 bombarderos, para hacer frente a esa aparente amenaza soviética. Durante varios años se aceptó ampliamente que la supuesta brecha fue utilizada políticamente dentro de los círculos político-militares de los Estados Unidos para así intentar incrementar los gastos de defensa. No obstante, al haberse dado cuenta de que la mera y simple creencia en la existencia de la brecha era un arma de financiamiento extremadamente efectiva, una serie de supuestos e inexistentes extraordinarios avances tecnológicos militares soviéticos siguieron apareciendo en los EE. UU., en una táctica que llegaría a ser conocida como “política a través de la prensa”. Los vuelos de vigilancia de gran altitud de los aviones espías Lockheed U-2 claramente sugerirían posteriormente que tal brecha no existía en realidad. (es)
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rdfs:comment The bomber gap was the Cold War belief that the Soviet Union's Long Range Aviation department had gained an advantage in deploying jet-powered strategic bombers. Widely accepted for several years, the gap was used as a political talking point in the United States to justify a great increase in defense spending. One result was a massive buildup of the US Air Force bomber fleet, which peaked at over 2500 bombers to counter the perceived Soviet threat. Surveillance flights by the U-2 aircraft indicated that the bomber gap did not exist. (en) La denominada brecha de los bombarderos fue la infundada creencia estadounidense durante los inicios de la Guerra Fría de que la Unión Soviética estaba obteniendo una decisiva ventaja en el número de bombarderos estratégicos (los que, hipotética y eventualmente, eran capaces de transportar bombas nucleares al corazón del territorio del enemigo). Uno de las consecuencias que tuvo eso fue el masivo incremento de la flota de bombarderos de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos (USAF), la cual alcanzó los 2.500 bombarderos, para hacer frente a esa aparente amenaza soviética. (es)
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