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Dive Bombers out of reach for A2A while diving.

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 8:44 pm
by Wiedrock
When a Dive bomber Dives it gets hit by low level Flak which can reach it at 1k altitude. (works)

But.

When a DiveBomber Dives (which is flying its mission at an altitude above the maximun enemy fighter altitude), it will remain out of reach for enemy fighters in regards to A2A combat (no matter if ESCORT or PATROL fighters).
→ e.g. when flying at 40k altitude while enemy fighter planes only have a "max altitude" of 35k they are never able to intercept the dive bomber.

This is related to this subject where Escorting planes teleport altitudes to intercept. But in this case highlighted above they can't since they can not teleport to the altitude the planes fly at before diving (understandably) and they also do not realize the dive altitude (or do fail to teleport there in time).

Re: Dive Bombers out of reach for A2A while diving.

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2026 9:09 pm
by Joel Billings
Do you have a save for this we can use to verify any change? I can add this to the list to look at in the future, but having a save makes it much more likely any change will be effective. Hopefully there is a simple fix to prevent the gamey aspect of flying so high the a/c can't be intercepted, even though they clearly need to come down first to make their bombing runs. Thanks.