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{{Short description|American bomber aircraft}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox aircraft |name=B-10 |image=File:Martin-B-10B.jpg |image_caption=B-10 being flown during a training session at [[Maxwell Air Force Base|Maxwell Field]] |aircraft_type= [[Bomber aircraft]] |manufacturer=[[Glenn L. Martin Company]] |designer=[[Peyton M. Magruder]] |first_flight=16 February 1932 |introduction=November [[1934 in aviation|1934]] |retired=[[1949 in aviation|1949]] ([[Royal Thai Air Force]]) |primary_user=[[United States Army Air Corps]] |more_users=[[Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force|Netherlands East Indies Air Force]]<br/>[[Turkish Air Force]] |produced=[[1933 in aviation|1933]]β[[1940 in aviation|1940]] |number_built=121 B-10<br>82 model 166<br>32 B-12<br>348 of all variants including 182 export versions |program cost=<!--should be used only for experimental programs--> |unit cost= $52,083<ref name="fitz46"/> |variants=[[Martin Model 146]] }} The '''Martin B-10''' is a [[bomber]] aircraft designed by the [[Glenn L. Martin Company]]. It was the first all-metal [[monoplane]] bomber to be regularly used by the [[United States Army Air Corps]], having entered service in June 1934.<ref name="jackson">Jackson 2003, p. 246.</ref> It was also the first mass-produced bomber whose performance was superior to that of the Army's [[fighter aircraft|pursuit]] [[aircraft]] of the time.<ref name="world1">Eden and Moeng 2002, p. 931.</ref> The B-10 served as the airframe for the '''B-12''', '''B-13''', '''B-14''', '''A-15''' and '''O-45''' designations using [[Pratt & Whitney]] engines instead of Wright Cyclones. A total of 348 of all versions were built. The largest users were the US, with 166, and the Netherlands, with 121.
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