That’s a ducking flak bullet btw
They all managed to land btw.
Not to be that guy, but if one flak shell does that, what do you think is gonna happen when another one hits?
yep and you can lose most of your control surfaces on the current live sever and keep flying too
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Some planes can even fly surprisingly well without wings lol
those all show what only a few hits from flak if not only one hit from it alone can do to you
A FEW IF NOT ONE HIT
so what do you think happens if a bit more hits?
Theres like 50 more if you scroll up
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in Sim, bombers are much more dangerous since they’re using the exact same gunner controls and mechanics as in AB and RB while everyone else actually gets Simulator controls (and limitations).
So they’re even. In RB.
Gunners consistently overclaimed kills to an incredible degree, probably more than anyone else
Sure. And right now on the dev server it causes no meaningful damage. Not even a fuel fire, which is the minimum that can be realistically expected.
I posted R-40RD (x2), R-27ER (x3) hits from a direct side aspect, Phoenix (12x) from a front quarter aspect, AIM-9L (2x) and 7M (1x) from front aspect. None resulted in a kill.
Even when structural failure is not achieved, a fire is easy to start and the fuel tanks cannot hope to seal such heavy damage:
this was one Sparrow fired from a Cutlass
75mm and two 88mm AAA kills respectively. We can each pick a myriad of photos proving both of us right.
The target aircraft, aspect, and weapon used is very easy to see.
This is the damage from a 1kg HE projectile. How do we know the other bullet will hit the same spot?
Yes, these are just a few of the ones I remember.
what? based on these images all we know for sure is it was a flak round that did it (assuming what you said was true) we have zero idea exactly how close it was. what im saying is that you can shoot off the elevators and or rudder of a b17 in game and it will be able to continue flying.
A plane that kept flying even after being hit by a 105mm flak round And the shrapnel effect of this bullet wasn’t even enough to damage the engines.
Also according to the Germans, the effectiveness of a 20mm shell depended on whether or not it had a delay fuze. Since the destruction radius of a 20mm explosive charge was very limited relative to the larger wing chord length of four-engine bombers.
The strength of a structural member doesn’t sit at any single point - it’s the whole section working as a system. The fact that lightening holes can be cut into it without compromising integrity shows there’s margin built in, and that the material around can redistribute the load without issue. A small puncture, even if irregular, should work under the same principle, provided the remaining material is still a significant percentage of the original section (which it is in most cases for small fragments). I mean, structural redundancy is the reason why many aircraft were able to return with clean cuts straight through the spar.
Engines and everything needed to keep them running.
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All that you are proving with these images is that these planes can take one shell, depending on where it hit the plane.
It doesn’t prove that they could survive taking another hit and it doesn’t mean that they will always survive a flak hit.
Good explanation
Is it me or do I see the wreck of a fighter just off where the tail is, was that a ram attack?
it was an r4m shot apparently
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If you scroll up you got reports for how many rounds a b25 is able to take for a certain % chance of a kill, and the best part is, these reports never even mention actual full on structural failures, because they simply didnt happen short of a genuinely airframe shattering hit from guns that planes simply didnt carry
Source or shut
?? can you circle the supposed fighter corpse?