Timeline for What makes a bomber able to deliver nuclear bombs?
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| Apr 27, 2015 at 19:28 | comment | added | jwenting | @Mark true, though that's implicitly covered under "electronics". A lot of work has been done to make nuclear weapons rather accurate btw, in order to enable smaller warheads to take out heavily hardened targets. | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 19:00 | comment | added | Mark | You forget to mention the software requirements, as well. Bomb Weights and shapes and flight times are all carefully combined to be dropped on target via the Aircrafts avionics, if they aren't setup correctly on the aircraft you won't hit what you aim at (though this is a minor issue with something as damaging as a Nuke). | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 8:00 | comment | added | jwenting | @MartinSchröder yes, you need those, and that means space and power for them. And with space at a premium that's often not installed. | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 7:47 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | That's what I mean with "special electronics for arming". | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 4:24 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |