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Q: What advantaged did intercontinental ballistic missiles have over nuclear armed bombers?
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What development during the 1950s made long-range bombers obsolete?

The development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) during the 1950s made long-range bombers obsolete. ICBMs provided a much faster, more direct and accurate means of delivering nuclear weapons to distant targets, making the need for manned long-range bombers less relevant in terms of strategic deterrence.


What devices were developed to deliver powerful nuclear weapons?

The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was the eventual method developed to deliver nuclear weapons. The variants IRBM (intermediate range ballistic missile) and SLBM (submarine launched ballistic missile) are currently used, along with cruise missiles. However, some weapons are still carried by jet bombers in the USAF's Air Force Global Strike Command (formerly Strategic Air Command).


What was the nuclear triad?

A nuclear triad refers to a nuclear arsenal which consists of three components, traditionally strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). The purpose of having a three-branched nuclear capability is to significantly reduce the possibility that an enemy could destroy all of a nation's nuclear forces in a first-strike attack; this, in turn, ensures a credible threat of a second strike, and thus increases a nation's nuclear deterrence.[1][2][3]


What is the difference between a Surface to Air Missile and a Theater Ballistic Missile?

SAMs (Surface to Air Missiles) which gained notoriety during the Vietnam War (shooting down B-52 bombers/and fighter bombers) are for air defense and are part of the air defense system; as were deployed by North Vietnam during the war. ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles=Nuclear Warheads/Atomic Weapons) were to supplement or replace manned bombers which were offensive weapons (aircraft=bombers) to strike enemy cities and other targets (missile sites, sea ports, air fields, repair facilities, ammuntion depots, factories, etc.).


What made the Torpedo Bombers obsolete?

Anti-Ship Missiles


What year Germany turns its blitzkrieg on London?

1940, but the bombing of London came to be known as the Blitz, and I think it went on sporadically until 1944, including hits by V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 ballistic missiles as well as German bombers. Blitzkrieg was a form of land warfare which was never visited upon London.


How did war influence aviation?

It meant better development of fighters, bombers and missiles.


What are Bombers?

Bombers are military aircrafts designed to attack targets on both land and sea. They can drop bombs, fire torpedo's or launch missiles.


Why is there nuclear missiles?

more efficient, reliable, faster delivery to target. hard to defend against, compared to bombers.


How do missile defense systems help nations?

Missile defense systems are very limited in nature. If one missile gets out of control, it might be shot down as the USS Lake Erie shot down a USA missile in a test on Feb. 14, 2009. If there are several missiles coming at you, they will overwhelm the best defense systems. Missile defense systems do Nothing to stop aircraft bombers. Bombers that fly below radar. Bombers that have stealth anti radar covering. Bombers that carry air-to-air and/or air-to-ground rockets and or missiles. Bombers can get around most missile defense systems.


What does Mutually Assured Destruction mean?

Mutually assured destruction (MAD) was a post-WW2 term used during the Cold War when USA and USSR were building up their arsenal of nuclear weapons (e.g., bombs, strategic bombers, and intercontinental ballistic missiles. MAD is a doctrine for defending your country, and its premise is that you have enough nuclear weapons that would allow you to completely destroy your enemy if it should start a nuclear war. This threat assures the enemy that no one will survive the nuclear war and therefore it is useless to start one. There is no such thing is a limited nuclear war. If one country started it, the other would retaliate in a full-scale attack.


Why was the f-117 invented?

Because during the Vietnam War the U.S. was having problems with their bombers being shot down. So they developed the F-117 so that surface to air missiles would not be able to detect the bombers and shoot them down.