Talk:Spring 2019 Event/@comment-190.113.101.109-20190525053514/@comment-26082284-20190525091924

Torpedo bombers are torpedo bombers only in English. As Tennousu mentioned, Japanese called those planes simply attack planes, and they were basically level bombers with enough payload to carry torpedoes. Actually, they  were used more often against land targets (carrying 800kg bomb or a number of smaller ones) than against shipping (carrying torpedoes).

Japoanese dive bombers at the beggining of war could carry load of, say, two 50kg bombs or at best single 250kg AP bomb, that was good to punch hole through cruiser deck, but couldn't do much damage to airfield or pillbox.

Later in war new designs of planes entered service, and they could do dive bombing while carrying heavier loads of bombs. With one of recent updates devs finally acknowledged that. Most foreign DBs and some Suiseis are capable of attacking installations now. But be aware that CVCI doesn't activate against installations, so it's regular shelling only.