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Flaks are only useful if you're fighting dumb people. A good bomber pilot will be drifting about 2K away from the battleship, changing direction every 2-3 seconds to avoid fire while sniping at it's target. It'll be near enough unhittable unless they make a mistake, and you won't be able to catch them because of their thrusters. That's an escort job.
The last time I got killed by flak was when I was fighting a Kusari BS, and it was focus firing on two Dessies, so I thought it was ignoring me. I flew up close to try and shoot off it's mortar (or whatever the big one is) and he switched target and tore me in half before I could change direction:PThat's known as being stupid.