The aircraft had Blackstone's insignia painted on the undersides of their wings: a cracked, fissured stone in the shape of a triangle.
They were clearly much larger than the other aircraft and looked somewhat more clumsy and solid. They did not look frightening at all! These were Blackstone Aviation's latest bombers. They had completely abandoned some unnecessary designs and had no capability for close- or medium-range combat. If an enemy fighter attacked them now, it would be difficult for these bombers to escape being completely destroyed.
That was because they had no way to effectively defend against or attack other airborne units in the sky!
This differed from aircraft produced by other companies. Lan Ying Industries' bombers, for example, still had positions for three machine gunners—above the cockpit, below the cockpit, and at the rear.
On the surface, these arrangements seemed to give the bombers short-range defensive capabilities, but in reality, they were completely useless! There was no need for fighters to engage bombers at close range. They could destroy them from medium range.
The so-called short-range defensive measures were actually nothing more than a sales strategy.
It was like insurance salesmen telling customers who obviously knew nothing that, as long as they spent a little money buying insurance, they would have someone to rely on for the rest of their lives.
That was what they said, but if you really believed it, you were an idiot! In actual use, the machine gunners, machine guns, and ammunition would take up the bombers' already limited payload capacity.
They also provided no meaningful defensive value. Those agile fighters had plenty of ways to attack these large aircraft while maintaining their distance, constantly adjusting their positions and angles.
Rather than calling Lan Ying's bombers bombers, it would be more accurate to call them