Why Heavy Strategic Bombers Don't Use Air-to-Air Missiles?

Heavy bombers rarely utilize air-to-air missiles for many reasons. Air-to-air missiles are expensive to develop, acquire, and operate and developed for agile fighter aircraft that can maneuver swiftly and engage in dogfights. Equipping big strategic bombers with such missiles would be costly and may not boost their defensive capabilities. A bomber's main goal is to enter hostile airspace, avoid air defenses, and drop bombs. Heavy bombers' size, weight, and configuration are optimized for munitions delivery, not air combat. Heavy bombers have advanced self-defense systems to counter opposing aircraft. These systems usually feature radar warning receivers, electronic countermeasures, chaff and flare dispensers, and machine-gun-equipped defense turrets. Instead of using air-to-air missiles, these defensive techniques discourage and engage enemy aircraft. Fighter jets are the final and most significant factor. Fighter jets always accompany heavy bombs. Jets provide air cover and protection during. Fighter escorts engage and neutralize adversary aircraft, allowing heavy strategic bombers to bomb ground objectives. Bombers and fighter escorts work together to boost the formation's defenses.

[@TextualTennis28]

Equipping bombers with long range missiles would make them powerful BVR missile trucks because they could carry insane amounts of the missiles. For close range which needs agility they wouldn't be suitable.

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[@cfett198]

The lead reason why bombers shouldn't be used as a BVR misssile platform is that it puts way too many eggs in one basket, and thus actually makes them less effective.
Barring that the bomber dosen't get attacked before firing all its missiles and ruining entry geometry, the fact that launching a large amount of missiles from a roughly same starting point doesnt really raised pK, especially if trying to engaged mutiple targets with decent spacing.
Targets flying with functional IRSTs will detect the missile salvo launch and maneuver to turn and burn BVR missiles out of the sky. The launch platform or buddy aircraft will have to keep track on target via radar to provide midcourse updates, keeping them at risk. Breaking contact means reduced pK for inertial guided, active radar terminal phase if those targets maneuvered away.
One is much better having four aircraft launch four missiles each from a decently spread line than one aircraft launching 16 missiles from a roughly single point.

[@joeanderson8839]

Maybe they should.

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