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USA was weird with that, most countries didn't stick a big battery of fixed guns on their medium bombers, especially those not meant to often double as heavy attack planes (like Tu-2). Many iconic medium bombers like Wellington, G4M, Ju-88 indeed had no forward fixed guns. Yeah, though that in...

Yeah, attackers aren't light bombers - the distinction here being that while in theory they can fight like dedicated light bombers, they can also do things light bombers can't, and the tactics of their use were adjusted accordingly. For all practical purposes, technically they are closer to twin...

A-20, as the designation implies, is an attacker, while B-26 with its crew of 7 kinda sticks out away from any proper light bombers. Also USA did built some Blenheim style light bombers earlier - Hudson and Maryland. For discussed reasons they did not get too popular though, still they were...

Since when are A-20 and B-26 light bombers? Those are medium bombers, in the same class as Tu-2 and Ju-88, they are pretty big, twin engined planes, with almost/over twice the empty weight of a Blenheim, which is a light bomber, and over 3 times its bombload. Yup. Though considering the...

The main problems with early war light bombers were that the ones that are seen as kinda useless were built with insufficiently powerful engines, kinda ruining one of the purposes of being light bombers - ability to avoid effective interception (fighters were getting major advancements at the...