Why are airplanes so important in modern warfare? After all, they do not carry a lot of weapons with them and can be an easy target for missiles
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If you want an animated explanation of what happens when you have absolute control of the sky:
[First day of Desert Storm](https://youtu.be/zxRgfBXn6Mg?si=bcp4zJinoVnO5flC)
This was the first day and Saddam’s army was basically done for, all from the sky.
In modern warfare it’s generally not so much how many bombs you can launch but how accurately you can launch them.
Six well placed shells can often do more work than 200 shells shot hapazardly.
Controlling the sky allows you to place extremely precise missiles exactly where you need them.
The US Even has the [Hellfire R9X](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/08/03/ayman-al-zawahiri-s-death-what-is-the-hellfire-r9x-missile-that-the-americans-purportedly-used_5992310_4.html) that is so precise it allows them to take out an important target on the move and basically kill no one else around (it has no explosive charge, it just deployes blades on impact that shred the target).
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