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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The B-52 is faster in climb, and faster in speed, even at sea level, it has a bigger bomb load, and radar systems in which aren’t currently working, but may work in the future.
The TU-95 has less than have the bomb load, and will only do its max speed at a height of 8000 meters.
Yeah I saw him complaining about the BMPT earlier, then showed a clip of him shooting the same spot over and over with an hstvl… expecting different results.
You might not nuke all the base or tons of ground units with B-52H
because conventional bombs are inaccurate, and those supersonic badasss just won’t let you bomb freely.
Think about B-29 or Tu-4, or Lancaster(7.7mm turret one).
All of those are worthless even though they are not facing F-104A/C.
This part maaay be fair since I don’t have experience with Air Sim. so I will pass about this part.
I want to concentrate about Air RB.
Maybe because Americans loved Greedy bomb loads?
F-111A’s wing bomb capablity which can kill swept-wing feature was truly insane idea.
I love that plane.
If Soviet also developed planes with that level of madness, then maybe soviets have similar things ig?
So, In conclusion of mine
Yes, Tu-95M might be worse than B-52H
but no, it shouldn’t be solved with Sending B-52H to 9.0BR (Because it will literally kill it just like how Gaijin did to B-66B)
I think we shouldn’t fight each other and fight for better bombers.
