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I never understood why they needed to fly all the way down that narrow trench, they're in space, just enter the trench right next to the exhaust port.
On real planes some missiles are guided by directional radios mounted on the noses of the planes they're fired from, and approaching it from too high would expose fighters to AA turrets all over the surface so the trench would be useful as cover
I don't think the turrets were much of a problem, it's been a while since I watched the movie, but most if not all of the rebel fighters were taken out by TIEs.
Hell, they couldn't even hit the much bigger Millennium Falcon, although that's probably more a plot hole.
Since the Millennium Falcon is really fast at full speed maybe it strafed the ties while they were preoccupied and outran them before they could react, like a MIG-31 ambushing a trio of F-15s