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They would not have enough trying to perform carpet bombing missions. The "big bomber" is a very fragile, easy to hit and take out target these days. Even the US only uses its strategic bombers to fly conventional bomber missions in combat where they are assured that the enemy has no means at all to reach them. True carpet bombing would expose those bombers unnecessarily. Far better to stand off with them and have them launch missiles and the like.
Between strategic bombers and heavy tactical bombers like the Su-24 and -34, they have more than 400 bombers. That’s easily equal to a WW2 carpet bombing raid in both aircraft and bomb load.