Would like to know what the attack and defense values of air units mean, does the attack value influence the chances of success when making a bombing ran while the defense influence the chances of successfull intercepting an enemy bomber/strike fighter?

We have 3 types of air units (not counting missiles and stuff):
Interceptors
Multi role strike fighters
Bombers

How should I balance them? Knowing strike fighters should have better chances of avoiding enemy interceptors but wont do as much damage (less fire power than bombers), does this mean they should have better defense than bombers (defense vs interceptors) or better attack than bombers (if what influences interceptor's success is their defense, then i guess strike fighters should have higher attack to increase their chances?).

Anyone has modding experience in this area?

Guess noone knows or has any comments to offer?

AFAIK the air units' stats are:

Attack: Chance of successfully intercepting an enemy unit
Defense: Chance of defending against an interceptor
Bombard: Chance of inflicting damage on ground targets during bombing run

Hope this helps

It does, thanks Der PH! :)