Why does US not get Napalm below rank IV?

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Whats the real reason why Germany gets Napalm on a-lot of its aircraft but Rank III and below for US are barren? It would be cool to have them on B-25/B-2 and P-47.

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Did those aircraft use it IRL

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Yes

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you mean the M-69? I believe it isn’t available because it’s more of a cluster munition unlike the Flam C 250 or ZAB-50FP bomb

here’s a little video I found.
M-69 Incendiary Bomb (1945)

It’s also not very “explosive” let’s say. it was more comparable to if someone throws a bunch of molotovs at the typical japanese urban center

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Gaijin can be really wierd with loadout sometimes.

Like Britain is still missing Napalm from the Buc S2 and Sea Vixen and that was reported 3 or 4 years ago now. Let alone also missing from the Lancasters and co

But has it actually been reported?

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we’ve had Napalm for 4 years already???

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I have no idea when Napalm was added to the game, but it was certainly reported by Flame on the old forum before the current bug report site existed (It is still an active bug report, Gunjob checked)

Edit:

Napalm was added and 3.7 ish years ago. June 2022

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The Elektronbrandbombe are still missing though

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Just to clarify i used Germany as an example and fixed the original post

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did you make that name up?

this entire document doesn’t mention a bomb like that and I’ve literally never heard of it

neither does it make any sense in german

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https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C222345

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/v1GGTvOzIFCi

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hey cluster munitions are on the way, maybe now M-69 can hop back to War thunder and burn bases to a crisp

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WW2 clusters would he peak

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I thought the same about USSR TT, where first napalm bomb was on I-125. I searched some documents, found one about Il-2 and its fire bombs. Reported it.

2 years later they implemented it, you will see this in new update. So, it works, just report it if you have actual documentation (I guess most ww2-related documentation is not a secret)

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I mentioned cluster napalm munitions in a report about Il-2, but they only implemented regular fire bombs, so, maybe cluster munitions will be reserved only for NE-capable planes.

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