Talk:Fall 2017 Event/@comment-33777047-20171201101301/@comment-26082284-20171201111558

Fighter combat is calculated first. It counts all your and enemy planes (fighters and bombers with AA stat) and returns AS or AP result.

Then it calculates planes shot down in that phase - it's percentage value and it affects both fighters and bombers.

Only after that game calculates surface AA (this is when green guns come into action), counts bombers (and only bombers) shot down and then damage caused by surviving bombers.

If LBAS is involved then whole formula is repeated for LBAS planes first (with their separate AP/AS result for each pass), and then - with remaining enemy planes - for you fleet with their planes.

So first LBAS (fighters and bombers with AA stat) thin the herd - shot down percentage of enemy planes, THEN your fleet planes (fighters and bombers with AA stat) duke it out high in the sky with the remaining enemy planes (and this is the moment when AS/AP that matters is calculated), and after that remaining bombers (and only bombers) close down on the targets and are shot down by AA fire from the surface. So green guns help defend your fleet and shot down enemy bombers, but doesn't affect enemy fighters nor help achieve air superiority.