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A lot of jets have speed brakes and a lot of them carry bombs, doesn't mean they are dive bombers.
Of course there is the famous episode of IJN Ace Saburo Sakai approaching what he thought were a division of Wildcats and found to his dismay they were actually a formation SBDs (I"ve also heard TBFs) that tightened their formation and focused all rearward guns on his aircraft, wrecking (but astonishingly not destroying or killing) both pilot and plane.
But perhaps more akin to Rudel's experience are the A6M claims submitted by Swede Vejtasa flying an SDB on anti-torpedo plane patrol at Coral Sea when he battled multiple Zekes and survived evidently either killing two or at least damaging them.
I believe that is an F-15E Strike Eagle fight-bomber in your pic, isn't it?
Things like this did crop up, I have heard an account of a Avro Anson shooting down multiple Me 109's over the English Channel in 1940
Hans-Ulrich Rudel got a maneuvering kill (though some speculate that the rear gunner got the kill) against the Hero of the Soviet Union, '26' victory ace, Lev Shestakov. That's pretty good in my book.
I think both were good planes but did rather different jobs, both may have been "dive bombers" but I don't think one could really substitute for the other.
Of course there is the famous episode of IJN Ace Saburo Sakai approaching what he thought were a division of Wildcats and found to his dismay they were actually a formation SBDs (I"ve also heard TBFs) that tightened their formation and focused all rearward guns on his aircraft, wrecking (but astonishingly not destroying or killing) both pilot and plane.
But perhaps more akin to Rudel's experience are the A6M claims submitted by Swede Vejtasa flying an SDB on anti-torpedo plane patrol at Coral Sea when he battled multiple Zekes and survived evidently either killing two or at least damaging them.