WarpObscura
Sleepy Big Stick
- Location
- A dot at the edge of continental Asia.
My main reason for focusing on strategic bombers is because I have doubts about the range of tactical fighter-bombers out of China/Japan/inland Indochina to strike abyssal-controlled/contested Asia Pacific targets, even with standoff munitions, especially with carrier casualties and potential abyssal interception of tankers.Ah... I see the problem.
You want to use the bombers as air support.
Thats a really bad idea, especially with unguided munitions.
The Air Force try to do so in Nam, called Arclight Strikes. Basically B52s flying at 30k deopping their load on the Cong in support of the firebases. They will lay their bombs in four lines around tge outside of the base, removing jungle a often slowinv the Cong assualt.
Mind you this was during the time that the Air Force was being kinda... Useless.
Work well enough... Til a bomber nav system was off by a few degrees and basically wiped out an entire Army and Marine unit...
Using fighter bombers is safer for everyone and just used the Strategic Bombers for STRATEGIC needs. Where a 16 hour flights nothing.
Edit: Plus Strategic Bombers are not ment for quick reaction or multi missions a day. Thats the fighter bombers/meduim job. Strategic bombers are nent for one a day mission or one every other day. Even during the hight of the bombing campaign in WW2 no bomber squad did missions every day. They rotated between squadrons to give each a Day off for R&R. Cause from UK to Germany was a 12 hour trip for those old birds. Let alone the B29 flights over Japan.