Title says it all.
Counting payload, performance, etc
The bomber Mosquito might be one of the better Rank III bombers at the moment, being quite fast, agile and still having a decent bomb load, though you cant do anything to enemy aircraft.
Ju-288C is probably the best Rank IV bomber (fast, stupid survivability, good weapons coverage and good turrets)
Canberra/B-57 are very good at Rank V (Air spawn, fairly fast, can kill a base and usually RTB )
Rank VI… gets kinda messy, but the Buc S2 can be quite solid, great defensive suite, relatively fast and huge bomb load… just ARB lets it down loads.
Im kinda partial to the Tornado GR4 at Rank VIII but the Mirage 2000D-R1 and Mirage 2000D-RMV are probably better (If you still count them as “bombers”)
I feel like at lower tiers whatever nation has the “SB2C” (any of its variants) is the uncontested better overall bomber given the fact that thing can perform the bomber role and also intercept enemy aircraft unlike most other bombers in the game.
At mid tier hard to say, I enjoyed spading both russian IL-28’s (the rear turrets are insanely good).
For higher tiers I wouldn’t know, they’re all just “food” for enemy jets at that point. Thats when you probably should decide to jump into strike aircraft x)
Su-34 for Rank VIII
Best rank III bomber - B-18B at 4.0 in Air RB, very good high alt performance; extremely difficult to kill if experienced players use them - up to BR 4.7 two base kills, at 5.0 u need 2; good damage model, nerfed but still “ok” defensive 13,2 akan cannons.
Best rank III fighter disguised as bomber: B7A2 (TT and BP version) BR 3.7 in Air RB, 8 x 60 kg kills every base even in full uptiers. Best weapon vs Yak-3 and CHN Ki-44 spam, very good high alt (=9-10 km alt) performance, outturns everything faster and is faster than everything that turns better
Partially correct, but in direct comparison vs a JP B7A2 a SB2C is just a free kill.
Fighter-bomber multitool swiss knives like mig27m/k, su34, su17m4 (or su22m4 in german tree because its export). All of those have access to essentially mach 2 guided bomb withup to 200kg tnt warhead. All of those are supersonic and have access to air to air munitions to deal with air units as well instead of being rp pinata. Tho iirc mig27k a2g munitions take away a2a missiles so all you get is cannon and mig23 mobility (because mig27 is designation of bomber variant of mig23) which is still better than being huge rp pinata with defensive airsoft guns. Phantoms are also good swiss knife bomber fighter 15 in 1. Specifically e variant because this thing has 6 agm65b and 2 walleyes while being supersonic with 2 good engines (trust me you will feel like gagarin after going from subsonic ayit to this thing). Plus dogfight sparrows but your radar isnt pd and acm is garbage. If enemy is close to surface you will have to use aim9s or m61 vulcan. Otherwise you can catch some high flying guys and even use them in dogfight as name implies.
Would recommend to avoid touching pure bombers because in most cases those are huge, slow and easy to kill targets. And big payload isnt something huge. Just look at american tree where fighters have “tiny” tims and 500, 1000 kg bombs glued to them and they work just fine. Also take a look at a2d1. 2000 kg and 2x 1000 kg bombs + hvars. On turboprob plane. I doubt there is 7.0 bomber which is as good as this thing.
Rank I: TB-3
Why? Yes. That is a question.