Anti-flash white

Some variants of the Xian H-6 had the underside of the fuselage painted anti-flash white. ==Soviet Union/Russia==

with anti-flash white on the underside Some nuclear bombers had the underside of the fuselage painted anti-flash white with the upper surfaces painted light silver-gray. This was true for the specially fitted, single Soviet Tu-95V bomber that test-deployed the most powerful bomb of any kind – the 50+ MT-rating Tsar Bomba on 30 October 1961 – as it had the anti-flash white on all its undersurfaces and sides. in all-over anti-flash white with pale fin flash The Tupolev Tu-160 of the 1980s was the first series-built Soviet/Russian bomber aircraft to be painted anti-flash white all over, leading to its Beliy Lebed ("White Swan") Russian nickname. ==United Kingdom==

at the 1962 Farnborough Airshow in anti-flash white with pale roundels Anti-flash white was used on the Royal Air Force V bombers force and the Royal Navy Blackburn Buccaneer when used in the nuclear strike role. Nuclear bombers were given – though not at first, until the problem was considered – salmon pink and baby blue roundels and fin flash rather than the traditional dark red, white and blue. Anti-flash white was applied to several prototype aircraft, including the British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2. Paint used on the Avro Vulcan was manufactured by Cellon, and that on the Handley Page Victor by Titanine Ltd. ==United States==

airborne, painted in anti-flash white {{infobox color Many Strategic Air Command nuclear bombers carried anti-flash white without insignia on the underside of the fuselage with light silver-gray or natural metal (later light camouflage) on the upper surfaces. United States Navy E-6 Mercury remain painted in anti-flash white, as of October 2023. == Other aircraft==

Concorde was painted white to reduce the effects of the sun's heat on its aluminum skin, which was already heated to more than at Mach 2 by aerodynamic heating. Aircraft with at least part of the fuselage painted anti-flash white on nuclear delivery variants: • CF-105 Arrow prototypes • Xian H-6 / • Myasishchev M-4 • Tupolev Tu-16 • Tupolev Tu-95 • Tupolev Tu-22M • Tupolev Tu-160 • V bombers • Avro Vulcan • Handley Page Victor • Vickers Valiant • Blackburn Buccaneer • English Electric Canberra (experimental) • BAC TSR-2 prototype • Saunders-Roe SR.53 interceptor prototype • Convair B-36 • Boeing B-47 Stratojet • Boeing B-52 Stratofortress • North American A-5 Vigilante • North American XB-70 Valkyrie prototype • Rockwell B-1 Lancer prototype == See also ==