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Welcome to the SK Bomber Training Page
A bomber's strength is in the formation with which if flies. Practice, attention to detail, preparation prior to reaching target are the key elements to a bomber pilot's success. Know your base layouts and the primary targets on a base. Understand what it takes to destroy the targets to which you are assigned in a single pass.
It is preferrable to drop all of your bombs in order to destroy your assigned targets in a single pass than it is to preserve ordnance (just in case). Always work toward, one pass, one base destroyed.
The interlocking fields of fire of a formation are crucial to the survival of the bomber group. Bullets from a bombers defensive aresenal will reach to a distance of 1000 yards (actually, the server throws them out at somewhere around d1.2). However, the optimal distance for a kill is where the bullets converge for your entire formation (see link to the left - Convergence Example) at approximately 500 yards. Unfortunately, this also has the enemy fighter getting into his optimal gun range as well!