except uhh, that same jaguar wont even reach its max speed before it hits the drop point in most maps due to its shitty acceleration. If a F-86 is already flying above 900kph at the battle when the jag nuke spawns you can easily intercept the jag because it too will be going like 750-900kph ias at sea level
there is a difference between easily catchable and un catchable, a Canberra at the first nuke BRs could probably drop the nuke before the other side could get to the main battlefield in prop fighters, never mind have a chance to intercept.
If you are already camping the enemy airfield maybe, if you hear the siren and then spawn to intercept you are going to be intercepting right as he drops.
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
It could take literal minutes for the nuke to land then
No it couldn’t, nukes don’t fall slower than other bombs
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
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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
Higher power, higher airspeed, higher altitude, higher climb rate, all defensive guns 20mm (number dependent upon model).
you ground spawn (or in b29’s case, airspawn flying 400kph directly over the airfield at sea level) so are these things rly gonna be true
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.
I assume you agree with me because of this
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?
no it just means:
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.
350kt? Way too small of a yield for such an aircraft.
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more engine power more guns and 4 jet engines but if at all possible id like B57 or B66
They’re too brittle as is. And the bomb wouldn’t take the long to drop…
You’d actually be able to drop if a little further out.
not really bombers are far from IRL levels of survivablitiy they fall apart way to easy 1 20mm HE colt round can kill a bomber its absurd
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Pretty sure it has max fuel load too. Or at least one of the Nuke droppers is forced to spawn on airfield with full fuel.
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