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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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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1. They do carry a lot of weapons, and the weapons can be delivered very accurately (relative to things like artillery) which make them deadly to fortified positions and infrastructure targets.
2. They have an enormous strike range, the recent bombing runs on Yemen by the British were launched from Cyprus, 2,500km away – a 5,000km round trip. It requires in-air refuelling but still its incredible warfighting potential. Moscow is about 2500km from the UK.

The only thing which comes close to it is long range ballistic missiles, which are much easier to shoot down, less precise and very very expensive, both in terms of the missile itself but also the launch platform.

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