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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Putting any extra weight on a plane is tricky and a bomber is basically a flying box.
I remember reading an interview with an expert on ww2 bombers. He said the smartest designers analyzed the bullet damage on the planes they had available for study.
Those planes being the ones that made it back. They were trying to figure out the best place to put extra armour and were focused on the parts of the planes with holes in them.
One guy pointed out that these were the planes that made it back, so nothing really vital was hit and they should armour up the parts that had no bullet holes instead.
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