Nuclear Future: Underwater and in the Skies
... in small-scale. However, despite new weapons, missile bombers still had several problems that resulted in only the USA and Russia (and to some extent China with its program for designing a new bomber, which likely has lesser priority than developing ICBMs and nuclear submarines) keeping them in service. The main problem is their low survivability compared to other components of the SNF triad. In the times of peace, large aircraft with highest requirements for land-based infrastructure are concentrated in several air bases, while under threat they can be distributed between several other potentially ready air bases, but they will ...