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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A plane can kill you from 50+ miles away before you’ve even seen or heard it, and is incredibly hard to shoot down even with the correct anti-air weapons.
Modern warfare is a game of rock, paper, scissors. If you have the right counter, you can stop the enemy. If you don’t, you’re essentially defenceless.
* Someone with a gun can kill someone without a gun.
* Someone with an assault rifle can kill someone with a pistol before the pistol is even within range to shoot them.
* Someone with a tank can kill someone with an assault rifle.
* Someone with a fighter jet can kill a tank.
* Someone with a better fighter jet can probably kill a worse one.
* Once you get to a really good fighter jet, it’s very hard to kill it, or even avoid being killed by it.
Aerial superiority is very important in modern warfare as the best planes in the sky, backed up with good anti-air weapons, essentially deny the enemy from doing anything in the air.
If you can’t get your planes up, all you have is ground forces, meaning your vehicles, troops and bases can be blown up by aircraft you can’t see, shoot at or defend against.
To shoot down a fighter jet you have to detect and identify it, send planes to intercept or use ground weapons to shoot it down, all of which is incredibly expensive and difficult.
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