Out of general curiosity here, does anyone know why the Tu-95 in the Nuclear Thunder Event can adjust its Chaff/Flare count, but the B-52 cannot? Part of me wants to say it’s a bug, but it’s definitely Russian bias (Joking). I haven’t seen any reports on this or anyone else talking about this in game, but has struck my curiosity.
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Could be a bug as they can be adjusted in the test
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That’s what I was thinking, I only noticed it yesterday. I got in the Tu-95 and saw I could adjust it, couple games later I tried to do the same thing in the B-52 and realized I couldn’t. I honestly wasn’t surprised, seems like this recent update has had a lot of bugs.
Always a “bug” when it comes to NATO, right…
It might be a bug, but it really doesn’t matter for the event imo. You still need to take in some flares. And imo the amount of Flares and Chaff in the B-52 is perfect. I was able to leave periodic countermeasures on for the entire flight to their base, and had plenty of flares to use for interceptors.
I was even spamming 3-4 chaff each time I got a warning that one of the S-300 sites had launched on me.
Tu-95M
Tu-95 has 1,000 LARGE caliber chaff.
The 400 other countermeasures are SMALL size. It would be BAD to change ANY of those flares into small sized countermeasures, when you already have 1,000 LARGE chaff to use. BAD IDEA.
Regular chaff countermeasures are almost worthless compared to large caliber chaff.
B-52H, countermeasures:
Now, even though the B-52H does have 100% large caliber countermeasures, again it would be a VERY bad idea to change any of those 192 flares into chaff. You are not going to run out of 1126 chaff before you drop the big nuke on their main airfield.
It’s fine for now. If it still happens in real matches, then it will be worth making a bug report about. Until then, meh.
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I agree it would probably be a bad idea, but yeah just something I was curious about. Gives the option for people to think they need full chaff and no flares (Me praying to R-24T and R-60M spam the people who think that lol)
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Unsignificant bug. You wouldn’t hit it anyway.
What’s the point of that post lol
What is russian bias although, is a 9000kg bomb in the russian bomber VS ridiculous tiny bombs in the american bomber.
The 9000kg bomb that’s worse than the 5000kg bomb on the 4.3 bomber?
Russian bias!1!11!
Russian bias is when a plane has such a large heat signature, that flares will never help it.
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You realize that such a high ir signature makes flares useless? But not being able to select chaff instead of flares is such a big deal, it isnt like you have 1000more of them.
“ridiculously tiny bombs” 2000lb bombs, while the 9000kg bombs is literally worse than the fab 5000 or the 12000ld british bomb yes russian bias, also 4 500 kg bombs as stock loadout is also russian bias i guess
Such a biased stock grind my dude…
The 9000kg bomb that’s worse than the 5000kg bomb on the 4.3 bomber?
Russian bias!1!11!
Do NATO has the equivalent ? No.
Russian bias is when a plane has such a large heat signature, that flares will never help it.
Again, from 98km away, it’s insignificant. Ofc it’s gonna lock the flares instead at shorter ranges.
You realize that such a high ir signature makes flares useless?
Again, it won’t act like that at closer ranges. You WILL lock the flares instead.
“ridiculously tiny bombs” 2000lb bombs, while the 9000kg bombs is literally worse than the fab 5000 or the 12000ld british bomb yes russian bias, also 4 500 kg bombs as stock loadout is also russian bias i guess
The overall payload doesn’t mater.
If you throw 1363738399kg of TNT thanks to 16464439334844568 bombs while 85% of them actually miss their target (because it is what happens when you carpet bomb, the large majority of your bombs won’t hit anything) → your 1363738399kg of TNT actually becomes 5kg of usefull TNT.
As it is nearly impossible to be accurate when horizontally moving the bomber’s sight while bombing, it will actually require multiple runs to “”“accuratly”“” drop all your bombs, on as many targets as you can. And you will most likely get shot before that happens. So don’t even think about doing multiple carpet bombings as well.
The russian bomber is more easy to use and straightforward. 1 big bomb dropped, everyone die in a large radius, lots of kills, back to the base. No miss, no multiple runs, no death. And if you have the time and are able to be precise in your shot, you also have some less big bombs to drop, that you can actually drop at once during a single run. And which will definitely do massive damage and several kills as well.
You don’t understand the lifespan of a bomber is very limited in GRB. Throwing a very big singular bomb is always better than throwing your 75 bombs over 10 runs. You don’t need to survive 10 minutes, and your only bomb makes a lot of kills (unlike your 75 bombs as american).
Plus again, the american bomber is cooked because of its BR. 8.7 means A LOT of 9.0/9.3 IR missile SPAAs, and even some 9.7 SACLOS SPAAs. The russian bomber has much less problems in that mater being 8.3.
So yes, once again, it is russian bias. But we’re used to it now.