Why aren’t bomber aircraft still used on the battlefield today?

[redskulldangerzone64]

[Anonymous]

B52s were used in Afghanistan.

https://youtu.be/2VCCiY17hKw

Bombers are too vulnerable in modern warfare and the role they played up until Vietnam has largely been replaced with cruise missiles plus a modern fighter like the f18 or f15 can carry as much ordnance as a ww2 era B17.

Look again the Ukraine war where the Russian airforce is basically grounded by modern SAM & stinger missles. The Russians operate an SU27 variant the SU34 as dedicated ground attack bomber, SU24 & SU25. Now image them using their big TU22 & TU 95 bombers over Ukraine, it would be a massacre much cheaper and less risky to use cruise missiles.

[Rangers]

The short answer is that they'd easily be shot down.

A big, super slow, low flying aircraft would be easily shot down with surface to air missiles, a 30mm machine gun that BMP-2 vehicles have, a Dksh heavy machine gun, a drone, or a helicopter would tear a bomber to pieces in no time

[richardcory]

Bombers are mostly useful for dropping large quantities of dumb bombs and there isn't much use for that in modern warfare. Often wars are fought in areas that have a mix of enemies and friendlies, so more precision weapons are appropriate.

[call_me_scar]

Do u mean the advancement of drones because those are still used or do you mean the huge WW2 aircrafts because those would easily be shot down today

[redskulldangerzone64]

Yes the huge ww2 aircraft

[call_me_scar]

Yeah they would be worthless on the battlefield today sure they look cool but they would probably easily get shot down with ground forces

[magiusX26]

they are. just more advanced and usually a stealth aircraft

[Pterodon]

They’ve been replaced by multirole aircraft

[Anonymous]

Technically the F-117A is a bomber. They call it a fighter because they wanted fighter pilots to fly it.

[Anonymous]

Too slow for modern warfare.