AD101
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Dive bombing involves huge risk.Why would you want to risk the life of a pilot(which obviously is the most precious resource),when you can do the same job safely from 10 kms away.
If I was a general i would always prefer to sent a $50 million plane with precision guided weapons than a $1 million dive bomber,because the $50 million plane ensures the safe return of my pilot.
and what if we have got no $50 million than? Keep on asking americans for LGBs and JDAMs? BTW dive bombing involved risks of black out which can be solved through the use of G-suits and automatic pull up systems. And in Case of COIN, i have never seen a plane shot down by just pointing and shooting AK-47 in the sky. Even hundreds of bullets wont bring it down. A cobra straffing bullets is at much more risk than a stuka releasing its bomb at 1500 feet.
And if I am a General I would definitely not like to spend millions of dollars on one plane stripping me of resources from other important areas.
If it is a Bunker, what use does 2 or 3 aircraft, crude aircraft do, when you can drop one guided munition, bang on the bullseye, with a 95% + success rate?
2 or 3 will create a psychological impact which is called Shock and Awe. Remember hundreds of cruise missiles targetting Baghdad and other cities during desert storm. You can't create that type of Shock and Awe with Eurofighters or F-16s. You simply cant afford it. But those old screaming planes could do it for you. And you can achieve a high accuracy rate with dive bombing as well.