I think the planes of the Bombing Run should be replaced with heavy bomber planes. Heavy bombers were used for strategic bombing, crippling the enemies morale, industry, and resources. Heavy bomber planes will likely never be implemented as playable vehicles, I doubt they’ll ever let us do CAS with a B17. So these planes will at least be represented in game by being the Bombing Runs, giving a chance to at least experience these iconic planes
B-17 Flying Fortress
Lancaster (called by British Radio squad)
Pe-8
He-177 Greif
P.108 (called by Italian Radio squad)
G8N Renzan
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Having 5 B-17 in the air might aswell just shut down the entire airspace with as much guns as they have but then it would still be very silly to have such a large strategic bombers capable of leveling entire streets and then for it to only drop 4 tiny 100lb bombs.
Having them drop that piss poor payload would for me be more immersion breaking than not having them at all.
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If it becomes anything but a total waste I could get behind it. What really matters is increasing the bomb payload to a level that both does enough damage to warrant the incredibly long call in time while also not being too overpowered
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Bombing runs need an overhaul for sure.
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As much as I love the old B-17’s, B-24’s and Lancaster bombers, they did do some carpet bombing towards the end of the war, but for the most part I think they spent more time leveling factories then troops. The heavy bombers carried more payload then any of the medium bombers currently in the game, which would cause more in game damage, which TBH along with the constant artillery barrages I am not sure dropping heavier bomb payloads to the small maps would be a good thing.
Of course, in Gaijin’s world as long as you have roof over your head, plane bombs don’t seem to affect you, so, give every soldier an umbrella and add the bombers since they would be protected. 
Don’t they already call lancasters?
I get these bombers mixed easily. Thanks for correcting me
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It’s almost funny sometimes I’ve seen bombing runs do literally no damage. Zero hits, zero kills, nothing. I’m not saying they have to always be OP, but sometimes they just feel like a waste. I feel they should at least be a little bit more effective…AT LEAST
I agree making these heavies drop baby bombs would be a little disrespectful to them, but for the sake of balance we’d just have to tolerate it.
I agree. We can at least bump up their bombs a little bit. They don’t have to be too strong but they shouldn’t be too weak either
Different variations of the bombing run would also be nice, imagine how useful it could be if it were clusters of Napalm or Incendiaries instead of the tiny bombs we have right now
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I think Incendiary Bombing Runs could be an additional Radio ability and the current BR should be buffed a little bit, but in general I think the planes themselves should be heavy bombers
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make the raid more worth the time it takes for them to reach battlefield 3 waves of 5 bombers 16 500lb bombs each per bomber.
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In their current state Bombing runs are just too lackluster. They need some buffs
