surely the point is how many bombs / missiles / rockets you can drop on those below?
In the scenario in the last post
"If you only had one ac, and it could fly for 23 hours then land and turn in one hour, it would have a sortie rate of one per day!" and only one payload per day!
"Another sole ac flying 10 x 2 hour sorties a day is providing 10x the sortie rate yet is actually providing far less actual coverage (20 hours minus 20x transit times)." But it gets to drop 10 payloads per day...
OK not all aircraft are equal and some carry more than others, but given the act that you're in a war of aggression, trying to destroy as much enemy infrastructure as possible, surely the quantity of ordnance dropped is what counts?