Yeah, the only thing with the Incidinaries with the Lancaster, is that Gaijin might class them as a form of Cluster munition, which we dont have modeled in game yet.
But I think someone was working on a report but that was the last I heard of it
RAF manuals, factory documents, books if you have two or more since they are a secondary source afaik
that is a very goodpoint, it just seems that unless your america or soviet goodluck getting the loadout accurate to how it was irl, did the Harrier GR1 even get sraams?
yes and no.
SRAAMs never actually made it into service, but the T8 Harrier (I think it was) at RAF Boscombe Down (I think) did test fire an SRAAM. Which is why it got it in game. I could be wrong, but I dont think the Gr1 ever had an AAM and the Gr3 only got AIm-9Gs during the Falklands.
Im not sure what the story is behind the F6 getting SRAAMs, but probably the same,
Yeah… Tornado Gr1 missing Martels, FGR2 missing Bullpups, Gr7 has a number of loadout issues. Etc etc. And then you also have the lack of ePaveway for GPS guided bombs for the Gr7 and Napalm for the aforementioned aircraft
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ill never understand why they didnt add the GR7A, atleast it would then have a much closer flight performance to the american harrier 2, but alas, what happens to those bug reports tho? do they get shelved/ignored or…?
No… But Gunjob often has to poke Gaijin very hard with a sharpened poking stick for many reports to get fixed
But I do feel our reports are often a lower priority
Gunjob?
Tech mod, does a LOT of the reporting and poking for British stuff, Active in most of the British main threads
ah fair enough, atleast one day, in the semi near future, britian will become the best tech tree at top tier air and will stay like that until gaijin adds stealth
oh who am i kidding, gaijin would add the F35 before they add the Eurofighter or ASRAAM
That was not my point.
Do some research about British incendiaries used in WW 2. We talk about masses of very small bombs. You see the dispersion of those bomb clusters after the drop, the higher you fly and the lower the weight, the more your bombs will have a chance to miss a rather small target. That’s why you can’t achieve any accuracy from higher alt for purposes like base bombing.
That’s why these very small bombs might be useful for WW 2 BRs if gaijin would implement area targets, and that’s why i wrote this:
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it be fun tho
Are bases not large enough for these kinds of munitions? They’re also buffed against bases right? They would be pretty effective although that’s if you reach the base before your flying trash can is blown out of the sky…
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I tested some days ago the effectiveness of the German C 250 incendiary bomb. You can kill with a very small payload (8 x C 250) of a BR 4.3 Do 217 up to 4 bases, as even in a 5.0 match just 2 x C 250s kills a base.
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The challenge with an incendiary bomb is that you have to hit the base almost perfect in the center, as soon as you miss the center the radius of the flames might be outside the base and the base won’t burn down.
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Gaijin has implemented artificial spread / dispersion to bomb drops (you see this in crew skills) which increases the higher you fly. So in order to hit the center you have to slow down (to extend the time frame to drop) and you have to consider the delay between pressing the button and the actual release which varies.
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So in order to hit perfectly with hundreds of very small British WW 2 incendiary bombs (~ 10 - 15 kg each) from 5-6 km alt you need to fly very slow and you need luck - and that would require even more luck as especially British bombers are as seen as snack for enemy interceptors.
I guess the only short term answer is to make the airfield a bomb able target in RB like it is in SB. Probably about large enough for Lancaster firestorm
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We do have larger calibre incendiary bombs. Up to 500lbs last I checked. Would be nice to have.
Yeah, that would work fine
I’ll need to browse my sources. I’ll get back to this in an hour or so.
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Your homework is a bug report for Lancaster with 500lb Incidinary bombs :P
You beat me to it : ) Maybe we need a game where the aim is to eliminate as many civilians as possible.
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War crime simulator 2007.
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