Howdy. I was looking to see if anyone had tips or recommendations for bombing without CCIP or CCRP. I enjoy mid tier play around rank 5. And I also enjoy the opportunity to take out aircraft. But I am horrible at accurately judging bomb release distance, time, and angle of attack. I was wondering if anyone had some good tips to help with improving in this area. Or indicators/references on the aircraft I can use to accurately know when to release bombs. Thanks!
It takes lots of practice. Even more for rockets. There are good youtoobes tutorials that show how to do it, like point of aim. But really it just takes practice.
You always can use A-21 with CCRP, at least try, to understand basics like a half of your nose to mouse pointer and etc
Hello, yes it takes a lot of training.
You may want to start by setting the primer to 2 seconds to prevent your own aircraft from being damaged by the bomb’s detonation.
There are 3 ways to bomb without CCIP/CCRP:
- using a bomber sight, as on heavy bombers like the B-17/B-24 or light bombers like the Tu-2/Pe-2/Ar-234
- Dive-bombing (45 -70°) (I invite you to start with this method) see image below:
This consists of swooping towards the target you’ve set yourself, aiming with the nose of your aircraft (crosshair) and releasing the bombs just as you’re about to make your resource.
This technique can destroy targets even with light bombs (50-100 kgs).
Here's a video of CAS - dive-bombing in 5th rank :
- Slightly level bombing: this consists of flying towards your target at a flatter angle (10-30°) and releasing your bombs a little earlier, which will reach your target by gliding along the ground.
This is the technique that requires the most training, every time you change planes and bomb tonnage.
In this screenshot, you can see my two bombs circled in blue gliding towards the IS-3 circled in red.
I had dropped them at least 200-300 m before this screen shot.
In my F-84F, I only ever really use CCRP if there’s enemy SPAA. Aside from that, I just take a low, fast, and shallow approach dropping the bomb ~100 meters from the tank (which for reference is about the length of 2 average Texas yards).
Basically, I’m going so fast and close to the ground that I’m not dropping the bombs on the tanks, I’m very forcefully shoving the bomb into the tank. I do it this way bc I was once watching a yootoob vid about bombing, and the yootoober said you’re not dropping the bombs, you’re throwing them.
Set fuse to 1.5s, try going into custom matches and go low and fast, there’s no real help I can give you, it’s just a knack, or you can just try think of the aiming reticle in arcade mode, try and imagine where the bomb is going to drop, that’s how I started, but eventually I just got the knack, and it only takes a split second of subconscious calculations to figure out when I need to drop my bomb, 9/10 times it killed the enemy, if not more, and 1/2 the time it’s a direct hit on top of the tank. You will get it, just need to practice lots.