nowhere near shrugging off, the first one effectively crippled me with severe damage, the kill was theirs anyway. How about you go play your tu95
Level flight for the next 5 minutes “crippled me”
fighters getting 1% of their wingtip snapped off would struggle to fly for 1 minute.
If you want to lie, do it somewhere where there isn’t a wholly accessible replay of you still afloat.
Sounds like a fighter flight model issue, that will be fixed later on.
And yes, bombers die slow, as they did irl, sorry you need to wait for the funny red “aircraft destroyed” text to pop up
Ah yes, is that why only 3 countries operate them and all at standoff distances? Almost like they aren’t very survivable irl.
I’ve seen severely damaged fighters land with more crippled airframes. Assuming you’d die with that damage when you’re still flying is cope at best.
Cause those 3 countries are the only ones that have a need for long range strategic strike capabilities… and why put such an expensive aircraft and valuable pilots at risk? That is such a foolish argument
“Only 3 countries operate bombers and only at standoff ranges, they must be terrible” No, the technology has developed to the point where it isnt necessary to send them IN like in vietnam for example, and even in vietnam we had b52s tanking SA-2s with 130kg warheads, some multiple, without breaking apart, more severe cases ending up limping back over friendly airspace then ejecting
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And if bombers are so durable, tough, and can easily make back after 10 missile hits, why do they phase out most traditional bombers for low altitude attack aircraft?
element of surprise, its expensive to repair bombers, pilots dont like being shot at and have a will to live, and also if you’re getting intercepted by fighters, they carry more than one missile, so even if your bomber can tank one, they can just send more until you’re dead
buddy thinks hes onto something
We got plenty of examples of bombers and even smaller fighter type aircraft eating missiles, to critical areas too, we had a B52 eat a HARM directly to the radar in its tail and it flew home, and that has a comparable warhead size to the AAMs we have ingame
Or or, hear me out, lumbering, slow, easy to kill bombers are dogshit irl?
Lol, people trying to defend their new cheat mode is quite funny. [2]
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Black thursday, 9 B29s swarmed by 56 mig 15s that bypasses the fighter escort, despite that, only 3 didnt make it back to base, another 3 were so shot up they were written off upon returning
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Operation linebacker 2 gave us PLENTY of data with how b52 type aircraft eat missiles, read
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Did you forget
While in WT those migs would be dead
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As long as you ignore the severly crippled ones or the ones that eat one hit and die, sure. And these were early SAMs btw, not even the modern 21st century crap.
Meanwhile this guy shrugs off 9 modern ARHs “but they didnt shoot the right spot”
And we’re supposed to believe ts.
Because modern jets were designed to be unstable and need to be auto-micro-managed by an in-flight computer.
“early SAMS”
250m lethal radius at b52 altitude
130kg of tnt
65m accuracy
you’re within the smallest QUARTER of the lethal radius, their prox fuses are set to that, and yet they aint breaking apart or even instantly dying
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“but but im effectively crippled and out of the match!!!” "RoyalWaffles probably
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I see a bomber shot at by idiots that were unloading dead center mass, and left the wings, tail, and most of the engines alone. And it didnt die and rewards those idiots. good
You know the sample size of War Thunder is much bigger right? You are just looking at the surviving case here.