If an aircraft carrier is destroyed, her player will still retain control of the current aircraft squadron until all shells are fired or until three minutes expire.Īttack aircraft carry rockets with high explosive (HE) or armor-piercing (AP) warheads. Bombers are almost universally slower than fighters while carrying their ordnance to a target. (While some fighters are also launched from a carrier, they are not player-controlled.)Įach of these aircraft types can attack surface ships only and their payload is single-use, meaning that once their rockets or bombs or torpedoes are expended, they must return to their carrier in order to re-arm and launch again.