The way the game switches your camera angle is the most annoying part about using the Schräge Musik cannons
They would actually be easier to use without being forced to look upwards
do you have like a report or something for this
that was a HEI shell btw
first burst!
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when calculating. You would need around 12 hits for a 71% chance of fire.
I would recommend you do the test again and instead single shot at the aircraft.
It’s possible you are scoring a fuel fire, but the emitter placed in-game sets the fire at the engine.
Shoot at the other fuel tanks too.
A report for which part exactly, im pointing out 3 different things here
The dedicated cameraman?
Communists being communists?
Or the difficulty of recording video of B52s due to the lack of cameramen/windows + their altitude making it difficult to record from the ground by aformentioned communists
I fired a single shot. Just out of curiosity I did repeat it, and once again one hit fire with the HEI shell.
I’m using this plane because Bf 110 G-4 has no “escort bombers” single player mission.
That’s a wing tank though. It’s the most exposed. Any fuselage tank would risk something hitting the engine.
B7A also has no other fuel tanks, and a big armor plate covering the engine
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the claim of a b52 surviving multiple sa-2s
oh my god
I can do it too, and its far more accurate!
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so six out of the seven hit went down (six seven lol)
Literally 22, count em, 22 messages up.
Also found more of that same operation
https://migflug.com/afterburner/operation-linebacker-ii-b52s-hanoi-1972/
“15 B-52s destroyed, ten falling in North Vietnam and five crashing in Laos or Thailand, with more damaged. Of the 92 crewmen aboard the lost aircraft, 26 were rescued, 33 captured, 25 listed missing and eight killed or dead of wounds.”
That was one part of the operation or do I need to read for you too
I looked at the wrong shell.
HEI has a 2.5% chance.
What’s highly likely happening is that fuel chances change based off damage to the tank
Bombers have insanely high HP so you’re never ever hitting it with enough damage singularly at once to actually cause it to catch alight.
Did some more digging and found in the files of the P-38J the fuel tank ignition chances.
It sounds like thresholds. If a round does a specific amount of damage, it will get a fire.
Cannons are so ridiculously strong in-game, their incendiary effect never shows up. This update changes that.
So if fires are directly correlated to the damage you cause per round into the tank.
That explains why .50s suck so much at lighting stuff up.
Are other aircraft besides bombers buffed?
How many times have I been proven wrong in this entire thread? You got the skin thickness being 1.6mm, not 2mm (0.4mm is alot for you, isnt it) aaaaaand…
I have no idea what you are talking about for skin thickness of whatever it is, I havent said anything about any of that.
so, at least once now?
There is also 1800 replies now of people arguing that you are wrong
everyone is the hero of their own story though
It doesn’t, because the fuel tanks themselves don’t actually take damage and/or never catch on fire lol
only them and some bomber-based attackers
Also, I specifically chose the Ryusei as a target because thankfully it has NOT received the bomber buff.
the following day seemed to go very well for them
like looking at this pretty much all of them were either instantly destroyed or had to be abandoned after 1 sam hit and ur soy pointing at the single one that was hit by two and survived long enough to also be abandoned lol
Out of almost 1700 messages, once, which i admitted to, and corrected, which barely even changed the end result of my equations anyway.
So this dumb shit meme is pretty inaccurate considering the competition
The entire operation resulted in 15 bomber losses, 5 of those bombers were lost after limping back to friendly territory and ejecting, the remaining 10 were lost over northern vietnam in varying states of damage, and a further 9-12 B52s were damaged and managed to land back home
During this operation a B52 even scored a kill on a mig21 with its tail gunner
were those from direct hits or the missile being close or maybe from the missile being just far enough to set off the proxy fuse but not quite close enough to destroy it
we cant know because as you said theres no footage or pictures and whatnot