no, like, the Jaguar, WHEN IT DROPS ITS BOMB (from when I’ve used it in my nuke games personally) will be at like 1000kph IAS max, because it accelerates so poorly it takes ages to get speed especially since the bomb presumably weighs something and produces presumably bad drag because its external
You can’t spawn a plane to catch a nuke basically at any BR because the nuke has already spawned in and is some % of the way to the battle already before you hear the siren
You should not be able to catch a nuke if you we’re on the ground when you heard the siren, it shouldent be hard it should not be possible, you should not be able to intercept a nuke by J-ing out and getting in a fighter
Yea I like the current gameplay where what you say is already more or less the case, because it promotes doing CAP and I think that is more 3 dimensional gameplay
The higher airspeed and higher climb rate will clearly be true, although practically speaking, it isn’t enouth to give enough of an advantage to successfully change the situation. I agree the B-29 is far too weak but, frankly, Gaijin has nerfed all propeller bombers to the point that you ought to be able to load a NERF Football into your game tank cannon, point the gun in the opposite direction and still shoot down a prop bomber and that just isn’t right.
But you do not want to climb with nukes, you can never gain enough of an altitude advantage to not be caught by somebody, and you become far more visible to the eye or radars. Later nuke carriers don’t even get flares to avoid IR SAMs.
Dunno man, I’ve spotted the nuke carrier half way between his AF and the battle and by the time I ran him down and shot him his burning wreck just torpedoed into the battlefield and dropped anyway.
what you are asking for would make interception impossible at early BRs fullstop, improving the survivability of bombers in general and increasing the spawn altitude of the nuke B-29 I’m all for, spawning a B57 at 6.7 you may as well join the thread asking for the nuke to just be an “I WIN” button that plays the cut scene the second you push it.
but thats just my opinion on it.
they do need better top tier carriers F-15s and such are nuclear capable.
I’ve also done exactly as I’m saying here and caught the jaguar in his initial acceleration cause he’s so slow to get to speed. Like you do hear me saying that the jag isnt even hitting 4 digit speeds sometimes before it drops, especially if it has to do any sort of climbing/turning off airfield yea?
I think Gaijin should give the Po-2 biplane a nuke with a yield of 350 kilotons. After he drops the nuke (if he survives to drop) he has to clear the blast radius or all players on both teams lose all points and everyone needs to pay for their own repairs.
For those who can’t tell, sarcasm mode fully engaged on this comment.