Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20151013050733/@comment-26574811-20151117005147

Hayashi H wrote: (omitted) Well I was mostly talking about PVP, so combined fleet isn't really an issue here.

And wikiwiki stated that AA assignment is NOT the same with aircraft's attack targeting, in other words, your squadron can attack enemy ship A, while being AA-ed by ship B.

It's here:

このとき、 迎撃を行う艦と実際攻撃を受ける艦は同じとは限らず、また水上艦であるとも限りません.

Ship executing AA fire to a certain squadron is not limited to the ship under attack from said squadron, it is also not limited to surface ships. (i.e. a squardon can be assigned to be AA-ed by a submarine, resulting in very low losses)

Never seen "18-plane slots survive while 46-plane slots wiped out" myself though. I fight against 4-5 every month, and cleared all the way to E6 in summer, maybe this only occurs in E7?