Bombers Away
December, 2007
WE'RE SET TO SPEND $320 BILLION ON FIGHTERS. BUT BOMBERS CAN DO THE SAME JOB AT A FRACTION OF THE COSTBombers have been going out of fashion for decades. Military planners have long assumed fighters, which are more accurate because they fly lower, would take over bombing duties. But the precision of smart bombs has increased even as their price has fallen. The result is that up to 80 percent of munitions dropped during the initial phases of our recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq fell from bombe...
