Because I frequently look up military aircraft a lot on Wikipedia, and time and time again, I keep hearing how bombers are slower and less maneuverable than either fighters, attackers, or multirole aircraft. So does that mean that bombers are more heavily armored than the other three types of military aircraft? If not, and armor just weighs down *any* plane, why are bombers the largest, slowest, and leave maneuverable of the military aircraft, anyway?
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They’re not “armored” at all, really. Strategic bombers are used leveling large asset areas (airfields, bases, trench lines, etc) only after they can do so relatively safely. That’s why multirole strike fighters and air superiority fighters always go in first: to clear out enemy aircraft threats and conduct suppression of enemy air defences.
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