- Yes, It need to be 25 or 30 meters of Proximity range.
- I said No.
The RB05A Is a multi purpose Missile, designed for Destroying ground, Air, And naval targets, In Air, it was designed To destroy Big soviet bombers with a long distance Proximity fuse, In war thunder the RB05A has a Proximity fuse of only 6 meters, which is not logical for the following reasons:
1.Warhead size
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A 76.8 kg TNTeq warhead is massive for a missile of this class. To put it in perspective:
- It is comparable to a 500lb bomb in explosive power
- Its calculated fragmentation dispersion radius is approximately 100 meters
A 6m fuse means the warhead detonates after the missile has already passed within its own lethal fragmentation envelope. The missile is essentially wasting its own potential.
2.Air-to-air role
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The missile was explicitly designed to engage Soviet bombers. Bombers are large, relatively slow, and often traveled in formations. The entire point of a proximity fuse against such targets is to detonate close enough that the blast and fragments cause damage without requiring a direct hit.
A 6m fuse against a bomber with a 30-40m wingspan means the missile must fly extremely Close to the wingtip to detonate. Which is not realistic Neither practical.
3. The fragmentation factor
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If fragments can travel 100 meters, setting the fuse to only 6 meters means the target only gets hit if it is at the very center of the explosion. A 25-30m fuse would place the target well inside the lethal fragmentation cloud during a near miss, which is exactly what you want against a bomber.
4. Tactical common sense
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Imagine designing a missile with a massive warhead, giving it an air-to-air mode, but then setting the fuse so short. Why would any military do that? They wouldn’t. In real life, Realistically, It Had much longer proximity detection than in WT.
In summary
In War Thunder the RB05A Have a Theoretical unconfirmed 6 meters radius of proximity detection ( its like a placeholder ) Which is not realistic for this missile class Since also there was no Sources from gaijin about the exact proxy fuse detection range, Including It also made for engaging large bomber formations as i mentioned before, The best thing would do is Increasing the Detection range of its proximity fuse from a range about 25 to 30 meters, so it can Do its role realistically.
Thanks for reading, happy to read your comments
Best regards, Major Claymore.
