I had the most embarrassing moment when my bomber died to an armored car. Which I tried to bomb. This must have been that rare, that Gaijin never coded that fully into the messages, see:
Or isn’t that what was happening here?
Bombs that happily explode when bullets are in their general vicinity is somewhat new. Ahem, don’t bombs have iron hulls?
Rifle calibre shouldn’t pen it constantly.
– E.
I believe its a thing now in the game, I have shot down and been shot down in planes through the same mechanic and from ground vehicles as well. You can even detonate bombs on the ground with a long timer by shooting at them.
It is all a bit meh and very unrealistic just another mechanic to shorten the match timer and give out easier kills to players, another dumb down mechanic.
Especially the bit where the bomb will only damage the team of the person dropping it and not the team of the person shooting it… so not only do bombs unrealistically detonate from even the smallest AP round hitting them, it also grants the shooter and their team a forcefield that magically nullifies the entire blast.
For me when i was killed by own hitscan aaa defending a mini-base whilst attacking a Pe-2 which was trying to bomb this base. Own aaa got both of us 😂
No, happens all the time. There are at least 2 threads which dealt with the topic bombs inside or outside the bomb bay, likelihood of hits / energy transfers strong enough to detonate phlegmatic explosives and even wall thickness of bombs. Boils down that it could happen irl in theory but wt exaggerated the probability.
Best solution to avoid this: Use incendiary bombs if you can - I recently managed to destroy all 6 remaining C 250 flamm bombs of a Do 217 (he killed a base with 2) - 2 of them outside the bomber - 4 inside whilst the 217 was more or less undamaged even by the internal detonations as flamm bombs produce just minor damage.
As a general rule:
If you get killed by random ai midfield aaa or armored trucks you played in most cases way too effective for a lot of matches in a row - RNG has often a kind of hidden dynamic most people never notice.
Same as getting damaged by usually harmless random midfield aaa - happens usually very late game when u managed to turn around a number disadvantage into 1 vs 1 - boom oil leak and you have to rtb and lose the match by tickets - happened way to often in 30k Air RB battles to call it confirmation bias. Best experience ever: Direct hit in my right engine 4 or 5 years ago at 7,200 meters on Sicily map in a B 18B
Have a good one!