Yeah, but bombs are, well, they are bombs.
The Taurus is a cruise missile (extreme range) that is designed to penetrate deep into the earth (or a ships hull) and then explode.
While I think it would be funny to see a missile of that size fly right through a tank, they wouldn’t really work in-game unless Gaijin starts implementing proper targets for them.
there is an impact fuse setting for Taurus
and yes it has range, but, that range isn’t realisable and neither important to Warthunder
what is important is that it’s got a fat warhead and GPS guidance, that combo won’t get you kills in ground RB but it’ll give funny moments in all other modes and add something unique
it has to be released at a considerable altitude even which balances it’s range as you’ll be easily interceptable way up there
also keep in mind that there are plenty of other missiles with similar roles for nations other that UK and Germany
That’s fair, I just really don’t see why they would add that kind weapon with the current gamemodes
well there’s this funny glide bomb on only one plane
it has quite the effective range even, I think 19km was the tested maximum
The ki 148 or the KH 38?
Coz the ki 148 to me is just a hard to use, yet very rewarding gimmick weapon.
The KH 38 tho, yeah, it’s unfortunate that Gaijin felt the need to add that, but would a gps guided cruise missile really be comparable to that?
You know more about German Tornado’s than me.
Any chance we’d see any other ordinance on the premium one it doesn’t have yet? Firebombs maybe?
I know about the crazy cluster pods but not expecting those anytime soon.
no thr JF-17s GPS glide bombs
since it’s supposed to be a pre series/prototype/test variant I don’t think so
although the Standard skin is from a later tornado that already had acess to Komoran and the submunitions pod
iirc the Luftwaffe stopped using fire weapons entirely in the early 80s and I haven’t seen them mentioned with the Tornados at all
the Idea that the tornado embodies was an airframe capable of using a bunch of new smart ammunition, which were seen as the future of airborne combat at the time it was designed and thus not much time was invested into making it compatible with all those old unguided weapons
the IDS tornado was supposed to be a precision weapon that should never come too close to ground combat where Napalm and rockets would’ve been useful
How are those comparable to Taurus or Storm Shadows tho
There is/was a glide bomb developed by Diehl that could be added to the Tornado, the HOPE/HOSBO, but there seems to be very little info about it online
And they should be able to carry GBU-54s
The early standoff GPS guided cruise missile short-range because range lower 100 km.
But Taurus it’s advanced standoff guided Air-to-Ground munitions and long-range
Yup, the Taurus has up to 500km range, but even the early low range cruise missiles have too much range for most of the currently available maps
2 planes*
Also not comparable to the taurus lol, unless they limit it’s range to 60-80km max.
Not like it would make a difference with the current ground RB map sizes. The speed is probably more important there, which IIRC was still below Mach for the Taurus. I could be wrong tho
Mach 0.95 afaik
as long as the GPS designation system in game stays the same the range is limited to the range of your designator pod which barely exceeds 20km
Why bro, just do a square orbit around the entire Denmark map first. 4x 128km.
model it like the blue shell from Mario kart
Ahem, please allow me to plug my suggestion here
I mentioned it earlier in the discussion