Just because nobody knows how to use the guns any more or how to fly doesn't mean bombers are easy to kill.
Also I didn't say they were easy. I said they are easy enough to kill. Meaning there is some skill to it.
I'd like to see this one backed up. In cases of rounds that actually did kill tanks (Il-2 guns, 40mms), sure. .50s? Not so sure about that on the tanks we have in-game. A Panzer II or III, maybe.
Besides their bomb and rocket payloads, the P-47 and the Typhoon both boasted powerful gun armaments. The Typhoon had four 20mm Hispano cannon. The P-47 carried eight .50 cal. machine guns with 400 rounds per gun, and it proved "particularly successful" against transports. The machine guns occasionally even caused casualties to tanks and tank crews. The .50 cal. armor-piercing bullets often penetrated the underside of vehicles after ricocheting off the road, or penetrated the exhaust system of the tanks, ricocheting around the interior of the armored hull, killing or wounding the crew and sometimes igniting the fuel supply or detonating ammunition storage. This seemed surprising at first, given the typically heavy armor of German tanks. Yet Maj. Gen. J. Lawton "Lightning Joe" Collins, Commander of First Army's VII Corps, was impressed enough to mention to Quesada the success that P-47s had strafing tanks with .50 cal. machine gun fire.
Further more the M3 is the main culprett for my statment. They are as hard to kill as a M8. My tank rounds bounced off the sides 3 times yeesterday at 800. WTF...he was sitting still. The shermans that were spawning in got one shot and boom.
Another sortie I was 10 feet from a M3 and shooting him right in the drivers compartment with .50. Nothing happened. I put atleast 150 rounds into him before he drove away through some trees. This occasion he wsa also sitting still.
Back to my point if M3's were as vulnerable to fire as they really were in RL nobody would bother to up them. I'm certain that these two guys were rolling on the floor as they were sneaking away.