Planes getting shot down by every unit?

[Thore]

Whats the point of having AA, when every single unit in the game shoots down planes as well?

[Thore]

And why make planes invisible to radar, when they're at the target and back again within 1 turn, leaving no room for the enemy to react?

[N3rull]

And why make planes invisible to radar, when they're at the target and back again within 1 turn, leaving no room for the enemy to react?

When your aircraft is not invisible to radar, enemy SAM vehicles will shoot it down as it flies beyond their view range, but at last scratching their radar range. I know, I've seen quite a few fighters and transport planes go down the instant they merely touched a SAM vehicle's radar range.

So basically, if you don't want your aircraft shot down, stay out of radar ranges of enemy SAM units (this is hard, they're usually huge). If you have stealthy aircraft, you can fly through their radar range but merely out of the view range and not get attacked (as long as another enemy unit doesn't spot your aircraft normally while it's still in the SAM site's weapon range).

But yeah, SAM units are relatively useless cause you can quite easily lose a Class 4 Tactical bomber against Class 3 tank, infantry or artillery. Only develop these when the enemy has those annoying spy planes flying, when he uses paratroops or when he's abusing missiles/bombers.