Either the B-36 or the YB-60.
If there isn’t already one, make a suggestion for the YB-60.
Edit: actually he’s seen the suggestion he replied to it so I will remove the @
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Well, that’s not exactly accurate either. Gaijin’s model has entire wing structures as one model. Realistically, wings can sustain far more damage as multispar design and stressed metals are what provide that strength. However, Gaijin simplifies it but making the wings into large sections and all spars as one damage model in said section.
+111111111111 PLEASE YES IVE WANTED THIS THING FOR SO LONG
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Considering we do not have stressed skin bombers in the game, only spar based wing structures, if the main forward or rear spar fails, the wing normally folds or deconstructively due to resonance tears itself apart.
Bombers used to be stronger back in the olden days but Gaijin did make the change. I do not know if it reflects real life though. But from readings it does and does not as there is proof of bombers eating a few mine shells and buckling but also the ones that limp home with lots of damage. But also equally a large amount that suffered a slow death.
…what? Most of the aircraft, to include bombers, are semi-monocoque design. The wing loads aren’t strictly on the stringers/spars/ribs (which the stringers and ribs aren’t even modeled in game). That’s how you have IRL photos of B17s missing CHUNKS out of its tail but still returning like this photo.
B17 #124406, known as the All American, was rammed by a Bf 109 on a Tunis mission and flew back. Seeing how it’s missing a good 10+ feet of framing support, Gaijin would make you believe the tail would come off. Fun fact, she actually managed to return home using the bombsight autopilot as the normal control wires were severed. The Nordon autopilot actually used electrical motors to adjust the control surfaces, which was unaffected by the collision.
Or, B17 #238078, known as Sweet Pea, who got cracked open by a flak burst and flew the 800 miles home. Granted, some of this damage is from the landing (in regards to the bend), but that’s a massive chunk missing out of the section holding most of the stress of the tail forces.
Or this interesting one of a B17G attached to the 91st Bomb Group in the same section. It actually has the ball turret replaced with a radar system, H2X. This was actually done to permit “blind” bombing through clouds. There’s some pretty interesting B17 designs with radars (H2S radar, the original H2X design had the radar behind the 17G’s chin turret and then the SB-17H)
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That is body damage where the spars and braces reflect a similar level of structural strength. When it comes to the wings, most bombers in the game except the Lancaster did not have the skin handle a large portion of the load still relying on the main spars. Even in the Lanc’s case, if the main spars got hit badly the skin wouldn’t support the weight.
Again you are showing extreme examples of airframes that survived whilst thousands with similar damage didn’t.
I have nothing against the skill of those crew and especially their luck not to encounter strong turbulance or cross winds. But the untold other bombers that got hit with similar damage never made it past france, let alone across the channel.
My point is, there’s plenty that are semi-monocoque.
Depends. The Lancaster was also dual spar so hitting one wouldn’t damage the other, which is how Gaijin does it now. Sure, the G-load tolerance would drop, but that doesn’t mean the wing would break in half from it as the Lancaster also used stressed skin. Hell, we’ve seen plenty of WW2 era bombers (especially B17s) be grounded in the last few years due to broken spars and those were caught under inspection, meaning they were flying with them damaged/broken before being caught.
That’s exactly my point though, they can make it back if damaged if the right conditions are met. Which, currently, War Thunder doesn’t do at all. I remember back in the day flying back bombers that were torn up and barely flying. Now, you get hit a handful of times and there goes entire tails/wings because they’ve nerfed damage models into the ground.