Why Heavy Strategic Bombers Don't Use Air-to-Air Missiles?
· 25.03.2024 · 18:46:02 ··· Montag ⭐ 0 🎬 0
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Heavy bombers rarely utilize air-to-air missiles for many reasons. Air-to-air missiles are expensive to develop, acquire, and operate and developed for agile fighter aircraft that can maneuver swiftly and engage in dogfights. Equipping big strategic bombers with such missiles would be costly and may not boost their defensive capabilities. A bomber's main goal is to enter hostile airspace, avoid air defenses, and drop bombs. Heavy bombers' size, weight, and configuration are optimized for munitions delivery, not air combat. Heavy bombers have advanced self-defense systems to counter opposing aircraft. These systems usually feature radar warning receivers, electronic countermeasures, chaff and flare dispensers, and machine-gun-equipped defense turrets. Instead of using air-to-air missiles, these defensive techniques discourage and engage enemy aircraft. Fighter jets are the final and most significant factor. Fighter jets always accompany heavy bombs. Jets provide air cover and protection during. Fighter escorts engage and neutralize adversary aircraft, allowing heavy strategic bombers to bomb ground objectives. Bombers and fighter escorts work together to boost the formation's defenses.
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