So, we are again in buff bashing mode
Bombers in AH
are unrealistic, as for precision, and for defense.
Anyway, when I take a bomber and spent the time to climb at an almost safe alt (usually 20k is the patience limit for me), risking in any moment that a single fighter with a very short burst can shot down me, and dropping bombs witch effects are useful
only when scoring direct hits, I prefer to have this laser guided bombs and this almost laserguns (even if they dont work for me as they seem with others, my gunnery sucks).
My dream?
To have a realistic use of bombers, with some gameplay concessions.
Tone down accuracy, make bombs dispersion higher, much highter (if there is any)
About the salvo issue, I've seen the selection panels in some bomber, so maybe that is realistic, but if dispersion get high enough, will be unusable to drop a single bomb on a target, and we will need to drop a cross salvo, hoping for some of them to fall near enough to cause damage.
Tone way up blast effect, increasing maybe the resistance of some target, aka bunkers, but decreasing other soft targets, like hangars, fuel tanks, buildings, in this way carpet bombing become more useful and we will see more bombers heading to strategic targets, and less heading for field bombing, having effect to the use of the full salvo option.
As the defensive aspect, we dont have large formation flying, so we need to give something to the defensive capacity of single buffs in a dense environment, by maintaining the actual situation, or, if toning down turrets gun, increase the toughness of bombers, meaning more hits needed to kill them.
And this will have some effect to the use of jabos, because they will become the more precise bomb platform (but with small load) with the apex in the dive bombers.
Toning down the precision of level bombers without modification of the bomb effects will relegate the bombers to the use we hate more, ackstarring and carbombing.
If dispersion and blast effect can permit "blind" carpet bombing of strat targets with some results, and at the same time, the destruction of a big fat target (say a VH) possible with 2 bombs of 1000 lbs that miss for 2 meters dropped by a jabo (how many times this happen to you?), we may have a more realistic use of the planes in their historical role.
My opinon.