Delta Force
Banned
Until the mid-1930s, bombers were considered to be unstoppable. Not only was radar not developed yet, minimizing warning time (people would have to see/hear them), but the single engine aircraft expected to intercept them lacked speed and heavy armament. Eventually improvements in air defense detection systems and networks and aircraft allowed for a credible defense. However, bombers can still carry larger payloads than interceptors, and due to their size can have greater endurance. How would bombers have served as interceptors, with pre-1950s designs carrying large caliber guns to allow for devastating attacks outside of defensive gun range with cannons capable of destroying aircraft in a single shot, and later designs carrying large radars and massive missiles to shoot down incoming bombers?