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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WW2 bombers used to have a lot heavier armor, modern planes that bomb at high level rely on speed and stealth rather than protection, ground attack aircraft or multirole aircraft tend to be more heavily protected with the warthog A-10 Thunderbolt II being at the high end of the protection scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II
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