Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Babban bindigogi na Yammacin duniya ya kawo musu babbar fa'ida a yaƙi. Alal misali, a Yaƙin Ƙwaya da aka yi a ƙasar Sin a ƙarni na 19, jiragen yaƙi na Britaniya sun yi ruwan bama-bamai a kan yankunan da ke bakin teku da kuma sansanin soja daga nesa, ba tare da bindigogin ƙasar Sin ba. Hakazalika, yaƙi mafi guntu a tarihi, yaƙin Anglo-Zanzibar
na shekara ta 1896, an kawo shi zuwa ga ƙarshe ta hanyar harbe-harbe daga jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya. Halin da ba shi da kyau game da sojojin da aka yi wa rajista a gaban dakarun da ke da karfi a fagen ya zama tushen kalmar "ciwon daji", wanda François-René de Chateaubriand ya fara amfani da shi, a 1814; duk da haka, William Shakespeare ya ambaci ra'ayi na kallon sojoji a matsayin "abinci don foda" tun farkon 1598, a Henry IV, Sashe na 1.