Cluster Bombs in Air Battles!

Asking the real questions…

Skyshark?
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prob falls under “sonic weapon” category

Yesn’t

SkyShark

Soviet Union WW2 clusterbombs when?

From what I have tested, the cluster bombs is currently an invisible standard bomb, that when it hits the ground and explodes, it then has a radius where it do small explosions to simulate the cluster ammunition. This is why that they only explodes in a circle and not a more oval pattern, and there is no difference in the radius of the cluster pattern depending on speed and altitude.

Impact pattern of BL755 to show what patter should look like
Impact pattern dropped from ~1000m

Impact pattern dropped from ~5000m

Impact pattern dropped from ~150m going ~300km/h

Impact pattern dropped from ~150m going ~700km/h

While the drop when going 700km/h looks to be more oval, i think it might be the camera angle that is maybe changing it visually.

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The most useless version possible meawhile NATO keeps frying all the SAMs in NE using stealth weapons while having twice as much blue side sams and nerfing the kh31 to the ground with magical all knowing radar operators.

NE is just unplayable on the redfor side at 11.3+ and it’s the only place where the rbk would be even slightly useful.

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Thats a shame they didnt model them with any effort, where release conditions mattered

In GRB, with the AA already in the game, such weapons are an absolute non issue lmao, and even at lower BR, they are an order of magnitude less effective than even early ARMs.

Maybe more advanced sensor fused submunitions would be more problematic, but even there, i fail to see what’s so scary about clusters respect to kh31, spices, agm179, lmur etc etc, considering that most of those submunitions would probabl yfail at destroying a MBT in WT even in the more advanced iterations.

At lower BR agm65/agm45 equipped airplanes basically run uncontrsted already so even there even very advanced cluster dispensers would just be a novelty more than a gamebreaking addition.

Maybe stealth MITL cruise missles should be added only to NT so the bluefor oppression can be countered with a good dose of Kh59Mk2 without completely breaking GRB, but even then just not adding RCS mechanics in GRB would be enough (wich already happens with spoce/gbu39 wich have reduced rcs in NE but not in GRB).