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*Good targets for bombers: Battlecruiser, battleships. You will be most effective against larger targets like battlecruisers and battleships. At no point should a bomber ever consider engaging any cruiser or frigate by itself. Cynabals and Dramiels are bomber eating machines.

*Medium targets for bombers: cruisers, a ship with active microwarpdrive. Target painters will help against cruiser hulls, but what you really want is for them to activate their MWD.

*Bad targets for bombers: frigates. Frigate hulls can shrug off a lot of torpedoes. You can whore on the mail if you really must, but if you haven't yet uncloaked and there's some intel value in not revealing your presence to anything in d-scan range, you may want to consider holding off.

*Bad targets for bombers: frigates. Frigate hulls can shrug off a lot of torpedoes. You can whore on the mail if you really must, but if you haven't yet uncloaked and there's some intel value in not revealing your presence to anything in d-scan range, you may want to consider holding off.<br />

The torpedo explosion radius will be too large to apply full damage to the small signature radius of a frigate, unless:

*the frigate is locked (no warp, no velocity) and still in space, and

*the frigate is affected by ten or more target painters, and

*your fleetmates have some kind of fleet booster that will shrink your torpedo explosion radius down to 40m to match the target frigate's signature radius (no way possible), but

even under the above conditions, the target frigate will absorb only a fraction of the torpedo damage. Save your expensive torpedoes, practice launching cheaper torpedoes.

== Bombing techniques ==

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 *Good targets for bombers:  Battlecruiser, battleships.  You will be most effective against larger targets like battlecruisers and battleships. At no point should a bomber ever consider engaging any cruiser or frigate by itself. Cynabals and Dramiels are bomber eating machines.
 *Medium targets for bombers:  cruisers, a ship with active microwarpdrive.  Target painters will help against cruiser hulls, but what you really want is for them to activate their MWD.
-*Bad targets for bombers:  frigates.  Frigate hulls can shrug off a lot of torpedoes. You can whore on the mail if you really must, but if you haven't yet uncloaked and there's some intel value in not revealing your presence to anything in d-scan range, you may want to consider holding off.
+*Bad targets for bombers:  frigates.  Frigate hulls can shrug off a lot of torpedoes. You can whore on the mail if you really must, but if you haven't yet uncloaked and there's some intel value in not revealing your presence to anything in d-scan range, you may want to consider holding off.<br />
+The torpedo explosion radius will be too large to apply full damage to the small signature radius of a frigate, unless:
+*the frigate is locked (no warp, no velocity) and still in space, and
+*the frigate is affected by ten or more target painters, and
+*your fleetmates have some kind of fleet booster that will shrink your torpedo explosion radius down to 40m to match the target frigate's signature radius (no way possible), but
+even under the above conditions, the target frigate will absorb only a fraction of the torpedo damage.  Save your expensive torpedoes, practice launching cheaper torpedoes.
 == Bombing techniques ==