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Marginal utility except in the crucial battle for sir space control. Without fighters, all other airplanes and surface targets are sitting ducks.


Exactly. Fighters intercept bombers. Fighters intercept other fighters. Bombers allow for cheap and reliable mass destruction of any ground target - compared to icbms and ground vehicles.

That these arguments come up only show how brain washed we are by the media.




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