So i was flying to the battle Field and an A2D destroyed my bomb While it was in my BombBay with the doors closed. If that’s intended it needs to be removed Right now
not true, otherwise thered be a whole lot more craters irl
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That’s not how nuclear warheads work. Shooting them doesn’t make them explode.
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We all know this IRL, but in the game the nuke should go off.
But the snail feeds off of our suffering, and what better way to make suffering than to reward a prize for a difficult challenge the yank the prize away last second.
I have genuinely never seen nor heard this ever happening… huh do you have a video because I searched it up and have come up with nothing.
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lol what? there should be a special animation lol like a glowing green bomb spinning in circles.
It shouldn’t explode if it is shot down, just like getting enough points to spawn a nuke plane shouldn’t guarantee a win.
It should, just like regular bombs. They also deal damage to anyone near them when exploding.
Well, if boolets can detonate the conventional explosives of conventional bombs in War Thunder, then boolets can also detonate the conventional explosives part of the nukes in War Thunder, which would initiate the uncontrolled fission reaction, detonating the nuke.
Nukes don’t explode if they get shot though.
If anything, the guy that manages to shoot down a nuke should get rewarded.
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That’s not how nukes work
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I’m 98% sure it is, let me find a diagram real quick
Edit: Found Diagram, I do in fact be correct
Diagram
What exactly is that diagram supposed to prove?
If the reaction doesn’t happen in the exact right order no nuclear blast happens. It is highly unlikely that a bullet piercing that “trigger” would cause it to act exactly the way it is supposed to.
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actually shooting a nuke down midair would actually cause alot more damage than it would if it detonated on the ground source: the fact that airburst is actually the most common way nukes are set to explode and basic knowledge of physics (ground deflects most damage upwards when detonated on the ground)
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that charts not correct actually but you statements still correct the 1st nukes were detonated by a conventional explosive forcing a reaction inside the casing (by passing something into something else cant remember what and that’s what jumpstart the reaction )IIRC
If a nuke was shot down midair it would cause next to no damage.
ummmmm dude… what makes you think that a nuke that gets shot midair and detonated because of that hit would cause no damage?
Mate, a nuke wouldn’t cause a nuclear blast if it was shot down.
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yes, yes they can they very easily could any pen into a nuke can easily cause the core to go supercritical (btw shot down means hit and detonated mid air, in game its not actually supposed to be possible to disarm a bomb by shooting it)
The core of a nuclear bomb doesn’t go supercritical just because the bomb was damage. If any of the important components of a nuclear bomb is damaged the reaction that is required for the material inside the bomb to go supercritical and the bomb to cause a nuclear blast is not going to succeed.
The possibility of a bomb being “disarmed” by shooting it depends on the type of explosive filler of the bomb and the ammunition that hits the bomb. Certain bombs will explode if hit by certain types of ammunition. For simplicity reasons the game treats all bombs the same way, causing them to explode if they are hit by bullets.
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