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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Not in most modern bombers. Most fighters aren’t very heavily armored at all. The A-10 famously has a titanium bathtub around the pilot, but that’s not necessarily going to keep the plane flying longer, though you could argue that 1 piece of shrapnel in the cockpit will make the plane a smoking hole in the ground. Planes today mostly rely on air defenses being taken out first, speed, countermeasures and range as their primary methods of defense. They aren’t more heavily armored than they were during WWII. If you hit a modern MBT with a WWII anti-tank weapon even in the most vulnerable areas it would probably just tickle the tank crew. If you hit a modern fighter with a WWII style AAA round in the right place you’d instantly disable it.
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