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What is the difference beween a fighter plane and a bomber plane?
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Jet fighters have no interior space to store bombs. Fighter/bombers such as the F105 Thunderchief do, which is why it was the number one bomber over North Vietnam...and suffered the highest loss rates of the war (for the amount of F105s built which was 833, of which nearly 400 were lost in the war). Fighters, such as the F100 Super Sabre, F101 Voodoo, F102 Delta dagger, F104 Starfighter, F8 Crusader, F4 Phantom II, were strictly fighters but were forced into bombing missions also. However, the fighters couldn't carry half the bomb load of the F105 thunderchief...while the "Thud" might carry 24 bombs, the F100 Super Sabre might carry only 4 bombs.
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