Modern bombers evasive maneuvers against fighters

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Modern bombers equipped with tail guns (Tu-95, Tu-142, Tu-22M3) take evasive maneuvers when attacked by fighters. This is a fruitless maneuver against a fighter and will actually make the bomber easier to catch-up to and shoot down (turning aircraft present a larger profile). In the case of the Tu-22M it is especially counterproductive as its high speed should force any trailing fighter to slowly creep up from dead astern in its tail gun field of fire. Instead it will try to turn against fighters. Bombers will also lose mutual protection from defensive fire from any wingmen.

Reaction to threat setting has no effect (to be expected, works against ground threats only).

Restrict Air-Air Attack will stop them from maneuvering against air threats but will also prevent them from shooting their tail guns at all.

The WWII bombers in DCS actually fly straight and level while engaging with defensive guns. The modern bombers should do the same.

Attached track shows no particular outcome. It just illustrates that modern bombers go evasive while WWII do not.

EvasiveBombers.trk