Call me really wishes that maybe some of the republics sleep at showing up in one of the film.
See so crazy none of the cpuld not had been spare that remained help fight the Order.
Yes. The sequels suffer from their narrow focus on just the Resistance vs First Order to the exclusion of everything else, even the New Republic fleets.
ONE bomber took out a 7000+ meter long dreadnought in one bombing run. They can carry over 1000 proton bombs each.
I’d say they meet your requirement.
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For those 8 heavy bombers with their extreme vulnerability to flak/interceptors, larger crew requirement/greater maintenance needs/bigger logistical tail, under 30-year veteran commanders like Leia and Ackbar(who in the original EU was responsible for the B-Wing project for this very lack in the Rebel fleet capability), you could get an equivalent 2-3 squadrons of B-Wings. New EU B-Wings can even drop bombs in addition to their 2 proton torpedo launchers.
24-36 B-Wings that attacked that single dreadnought from multiple vectors after Poe had knocked out their AA turrets and their escorts dealt with enemy interceptors would've had a much higher survival rate while accomplishing the same objective.
Smaller fighters are superior to big fighters due to maneuverability and cost. This has been proven since at least World War II, where heavy twin-engine fighters kept losing to single-engine light fighters. With the technology level of Star Wars, B-Wings are more practical than the heavy bombers.
Avoiding this kind of bomber losses was also why the Brits switched to night bombing in WWII due to conserving a small precious bomber force i.e. you don't charge openly into the enemy in full visibility like in TLJ.