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20 Radical Military Airplanes that Didn’t Make the Cut

Boeing XF8B

With an invasion of Japan looming on the horizon, Boeing built a massive fighter that could do it all: interceptor, long-range escort fighter, dive bomber, and torpedo bomber. The prototype featured two counter-rotating propellers and could carry two torpedoes or 6,400 lbs. of bombs in its internal bomb bay. With the end of World War II and the dawning of the jet age, the XF8B never went into production.