German late WW2 already 2 MCLOS (Fritz X and the air to air missile) so let’s jump directly into low tier GNSS guidance lol
If it’d be implemented and work like it did in Il-2 1946 it wouldn’t be good at all to be fair
yeah the hit rate on those was exceptionally bad/difficult to aim.
But honeslty no matter how bad it is, it is fun (think of the Ki-148)
As the event comes to an end and people have gotten their B-52s and Tu-95s, I got mine and had a question.
Why is there a massive gap in capability to bomb?
The TU-95M is 8.3 and only has a total explosive damage of 96,944
Meanwhile the B-52 is merely 8.7 and has:
Yes, over double the explosive mass.
What should be done to make them more equal?
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- give the TU-95M a small yield nuclear warhead
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- Change the bomb load / model to accommodate bigger bombs
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- Lower the Br of the TU-95M
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- Increase the Br of the B-52
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- Other (list it)
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You forgot the option of “Nothing at all because I am wrong”
guns guns guns.
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This lmao
“Weaker than B-52” dude said
23mms as a defensive armament really isn’t a be all end all.
If AI gunners were good, I’d agree.
Nor am I wrong. Why are you so obtuse? Do you argue the fact that the B-52 doesn’t have 2.3~ times the explosive mass? Enough to nuke a runways in sim in one pass?
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Where’s the option for no change?
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It might carry more bombs, but spaa and jets don’t care about that. Gaijin already said that the B-52H won’t receive it’s guided weapons for “balancing reasons”. So i see 0 reason to increase it’s br at this moment.
Just because it can carry 21x 2000lb bombs doenst mean that the smaller bombs can cause as much damage as the 4x FAB3000 loadout.
(Yes the overall estimated damage of the B-52 is higher, but calculated on a maximum hit).
The bigger bomb size of a singel fab3000 is currently more effective then dropping a line of 2000lb boys.
Keep in mind, both models are currently incomplete and full of bugs.
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You can hit literally half of your 2000 lbs bombs and cause the same damage.
Are planes scary ? Sure. To both they are.
The B-52 is also faster btw.
Have you ever played Air sim?
There isn’t, because there is a bit of a imbalance that warrants more than a mere 0.4 br difference.
Yeah but I’m gonna be real I’d rather not get screwed over even more by meeting 9.7 jets like a lightning in my Tu-95 also welcome to compression hell
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About the payload part, maybe OP might be right. Tu-95 has a smaller payload than B-52H.
About the self-defence side, Tu-95 might be better than B-52. because they have better turrets.
About the in-game meta side, both Tu-95 and B-52H are worthless.
Oh, don’t ever think about mentioning GRB again because tag said Air-rb which means this topic is focused more to Air-RB.
We need to fix lots of things in the bomber.
Oh, and OP. @UniqueScorpions-live
Honestly, the payload difference between Tu-95 and B-52H is worthless if we think about Air RB.
1- Every bomber is forced to have a loadout enough to kill a single base because if you carry more, the base reward multiplier will fucked up.
2- Both B-52H and Tu-95 might not reach base within time before IL-28 or Canberra reaches.
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It isn’t just compression hell.
B-66B is 9.0 and the B-52 is 8.7 they should swap tbh
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Pre bomb nerf the BRs of Tu-95m and B-52 should have been reversed.
With the bomb nerf they’re equally useless. They exist for a “funni”.
But you even considering a nuclear option as a way to “balance” (what you really mean is that it’s not busted enough for a rusian vehicle and you want a fix for that) tu-95m is hilarious.
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Both should be 8.7 it’s again compression now even worse given the new Chinese event jet has 9J missiles at 9.3 lmao
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Who said anything about grb?
Also, sure the difference may be marginal in Air RB, maybe not. If you get the ability, you can nuke all the bases, and tons of ground units with the B-52.
But the issue here lies more in Sim air. Because in sim air, the estimated base damage needed to destroy 1 airfield is around 120k~. 8.7 has no great spaa to take out the B-52 at height, and sure it’s late and so on, but the fact of the matter is, it’s still likely to get to an airfield, and take at least one out, in one pass, possibly even two.
Another problem is it seems USA gets the biggest bomb loads only, F-111 is a great example.
I’m just looking for a bit better balance.
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He will.
He spams russian bias things all over the forum.
I saw him in another B-52H and Tu-95M topic and he complained about Pantisr.
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IF you can hit half your bombs. And they need to be direct hits to even reach the maximum calculated damage. However, the sky brick isn’t a big fan of turning. So doing 10 seperate bombing runs will be a very rare thing to see. Meanwhile you have an increasing swarm of spaa’s spawning looking at that flying appartment complex circling the field.
And since the ECM was only a event thing, a single air to air missle will end you.
How fun! You can fly around 100kmh faster on paper. In reality your stuck at around 6 to 700kmh when you have to increase altitude to survive.
Speed wise in a battle situation, the TU-95M will out perform the BUFF in a climb and turnrate.
Do i play air sim? No i’m more of a ground rb player with a touch of air rb bomber pilot.
But then again, that doesn’t really matter for how these things will be used 95% of the time
That’s kinda just his thing is to talk about russia
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