Just be content with the status quo. The B-25J is a bombing fortress in the air, and once destroyed, it becomes a paratrooper commando force, each soldier armed with a submachine gun. Where else can you find something that achieves two goals at once? To say it’s weak is something I simply cannot understand.
There is an art to using the planes without being able to fire as the piot. They are plenty deadly. Tight circle around the map will have 3 of those guys always firing and unless you are following a plane good luck with that. I love using my bombers that way.
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I rarely fly fighter planes. Once I have dropped my bombs and get turned around and headed back to reload, I always switch to my gunners so I can engage any plane that tries to flame me. 
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I catch a ton of people out that way myself. I Nose up drop speed and then let my tail gunner soften them up and I take the out as they over pass me. All my secondary pilots have max detection,.
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When I have a fighter plane coming in from the rear, I throttle down, deploy flaps and 80% of the time the fighter zooms past me since he can’t slow that fast. Then I switch to pilot and gun him down after he’s blown past and usually flies right into my gun sights. Kind of like Maverick in Top Gun, hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by.
I’ve noticed some good fighter pilots who will bank away before they fly past and readjust their angle. Maybe they’ve been shot down a time or two that way and have learned.
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That is a winning tactic for sure. I do not even bother with the flaps that is why I go nose up after going nose down towards the reload greatest speed difference, I should use flaps to slow down even more. Heck I do not even know the button. But I fly a bomber like its a fighter since I use to place this game called Heroes and Generals. It is how well your mind wraps around 3d space.
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