Well spaa obvioulsy is looking up but if yoa re bombing tanks that are engaging other tanks they often cannot look at you or even move. And even if they can move dropping the bombs low enough still gives them not enough time to move as many vehicles take a bit to move from a standstill.
But wouldn’t they hear it coming down?
The main advantage of using retarded over free-fall is usually impact angle.
If you combine it with CCRP to control the precise release point, you can fly low and fast, letting the Ballistic computer handle the drop. With free-fall, the release angle can sometimes result in bombs hitting buildings or hils if you arent careful with your exact attack path, but with retarded bombs, they’ll fall directly down onto the target.
Imo, assuming you’re dropping from fairly low alt, then the time difference between retarted bombs with impact fuse vs free-fall with a slight fuse delay is extremely minimal.
Wouldn’t it be quite risky to get shot down by AA guns or any players like. if literally 1 bullet hit your bomb your aircraft and other bombs will explode in to pieces. Don’t you think it better to just fly very high and drop bombs from a safer distance or probably use the dive-bombing way (my fav way). Or a risky way is to toss your bomb using the CCRP.
It entirely depends on the exact aircraft and BR.
Sometimes flying high is more dangerous than flying low and fast. Dive bombing can work well, but can also just result in being immediately nailed by a SAM.
Lofting is another option, though I find is highly dependent on the aircraft being good enough to thorw the bombs far enough to be worth it
It all depends on how you use them, you have the intel advantage you see where everyone is and whats going on in the battlefield; what you can do is lets say you see you have lottle teammates on B and a high amount of enemies woth trajectory towards capturing it, you can drop the bomb early and oncr the bomb get to the ground thwy are already standing there.
They require more skill but are very usful
How about guided bombs? the most accurate bomb.
GBUs are an entirely different case.
As I loft those whilst sat at 20k ft and still nail targets perfectly. But you wouldnt manage that with a unguided free fall bomb
How long does it take the retarded bomb to get to ground if drop around 200m?
Id have to test it. Give me a sec. Though 200m is still higher than I was thinking. I was thinking more like 50m
50m a little low those deadly tree will kill you and worse if the map is hilly which make it harder to get out. but What speed you are doing?
Flat out without AB (so about mach 0.94 in the GR4)
Retarded at 650ft: Approx 8 seconds
Retarded at 150ft: Approx 3 seconds
Free-fall at 650ft: Approx 7 seconds
Free-fall at 150ft: Approx 2-3 seconds
So depending on assault fuse delay or manual delay so you survive when using free-fall. They are close enough the same.
I’ve never really struggled with sitting around 100ft on most maps (about 30m). 150-200ft is really easy
But how fast you flying? like i normally drop at mach 0.99 and enter supersonic immediate after dropping it because flying at high speed and at low attitude may kinda mess up accuracy sometimes.
Litereally at the top.
Realistically speaking, aircraft that I would be using unguided bombs over guided wepaons are probably like the Harrier and Buc both of which would max out at about mach 0.92-0.94 anyway. Jags probably a bit higher as you probably wont reach supersonic with bombs.
In the Tonka, AB will easily push you over Mach 1 and so you wont be able to release, so id throttle out of reheat or tap the airbrakes and so slow down to 0.95 ish.
What the biggest retarded bomb though? Because if it like the Fab-3000 like what the russian have. they can simply just drop it far away even if it inaccurate and still kill bunch of targets instead of relying on retarded bomb.
1000lb is the standard for most other nations.
alr so 450kg. that quite small which gonna require it to land more closely to the tank.
Yep. Which is why high alt unguided drops generally dont work for most nato aircraft. A few have 2000lb bombs, but they are few and far between
it would be nice if they add the B-2 Bomber and add the GBU-57a
Yep, Grand Slam too