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Should India consider buying a strategic bomber

 

Bombers are aircraft's which are used to destroy the enemies ground targets or providing close air support to the ground forces




according to the modern classifications bombers can be classified into two parts 




1. Tactical Bombers           


                                                               

2. Strategic bombers



As compared to the strategic bombers tactical bombers are the aircraft which are smaller in size , faster , have lesser range  and can carry a limited amount of bombs with it for bombing missions . These type of aircraft are used to do special strikes in the enemies territory with precision like the Balakot strike of the Indian air force in Pakistan

In other words we can say that these aircraft's are the most efficient aircraft's in the terms of economics of a force as they can carry very less payload to achieve maximum effect .


Any fighter aircraft or a armed drone in the world  could be used as a tactical bomber where as on the other hand strategic bombers are those aircraft's which are bigger in size , have huge ranges , carry maximum payload to do carpet bombing 


Carpet bombing is known as saturation bombing , it is a large area bombardment done in manner to inflict maximum damage to a selected area of the enemies land . The phrase evokes a image of explosions completely covering a area in the same way a carpet covers a floor . Carpet bombings is achieved by dropping many unguided bombs in the target area

The strategic bombers are used to cripple the enemies ability to fight back in the form of destroying the enemies air defenses , military installations , logistics bases etc . Moreover the edge which a strategic bomber does have over the tactical bomber is that they can be used during the unprecedented times of a nuclear war as , as compared to the tactical bombers which can carry not more than 2 nuclear bombs at a time (due to safety reasons )  the strategic bombers can carry more than 10 to 12 nuclear bombs at a  time and also they can carry both supersonic and hyper sonic cruise missiles on which the nukes can also be deployed and for a defense system top destroy these missile is very difficult 




WHY    DOES   INDIA   NEED   BOMBER 


People argue that for India it is not moral to posses a strategic bomber aircraft as they can cause harm to innocent civilians in large numbers but it is not like that because it is not the first time that India is thinking of operating a strategic bomber . Ever since its independence the Indian air force had been operating all types of heavy and light bombers such as the British Bristol Blenheim






 or the American B 24 J Liberator  

More over if we consider the copying capacity of the Chinese it is very much possible that with the new H 20 Chinese bombers possess a great threat to the India as if not the from the North East of India and even they can come from their future bases in Pakistan or from the Island nations in the Indian ocean region


So to counter these threats India needs to work on both the aspects i.e the offensive counter and the defensive counter . As of now the India air force have publicly stated that they are working in the collaboration with the DRDO to make over the horizon radar  which would be able to detect even stealth bombers from thousands of kilometres away 


But when it comes to the offensive counters like actual strategic bombers India doesn't seems to do well in this field but the options which are open to the indian air force can be

1. conversion of the GHATAK UCAV into a bigger version a manned stealth bomber 


2. purchasing any of the functional bombers like the 


                                                       american B 52 Stratofortress

which is very highly unlikely as the still he US can not afford to sell any of its prestigious aircraft to a foreign countries and the last option with which the Indian air force could go is the russian




TU 22 M3


 and the                                                                  TU 160





CONCLUSION

India  should be working on both the types of the counter measures for the chinese bombers i.e the bombers and new OTH Radars and when it comes to which type of bomber india should look more towards the russian bomber TU 160 as it is the worlds biggst bomber as well as the worlds fastest bomber

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