Its not a bug
Because you have to actually drop it first
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Then why can’t it be like in CoD, where if you nuked a nuke, you instantly drop it?
This is a different video game.
Its pretty close to balanced how it is, doesn’t really need to be much easier by not even having to drop it.
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The reddit posts I linked say that they wouldn’t actually make it explode.
Have you tried to land and re-arm?
Why would they add a “i won” button?
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Bombs in the game after a patch became physical, so that they can be detonated by simply hitting them (even inside the plane if a shell/bullet penetrates through the plane). And even in real life, a nuke doesn’t detonate like, well, a nuclear bomb, simply from getting hit by bullets/rounds, it must be activated first. So honestly, Gaijin really can’t be blamed here, since they unintentionally just made it more realistic (tho if it was very realistic, the plane crew would slowly die from radiation poisoning, since it still contains radioactive materials).
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More specifically (for the implosion-type devices in game) the nuke must have the proximity fuse trigger the detonation sequence for the primary explosives to correctly initiate the chain reaction. (There is more to explain as to why a nuke has a proximity fuse instead of an impact fuse but it’s not really relevant to this)
The USA tested failure modes of their more modern nuclear devices back in the late fifties; where only one detonator out of the multiple required triggered correctly and the result was a detonation much smaller than anticipated. A large detonation with a fairly high yield relative to the explosive mass of the traditional explosives inside the bomb occurred, but the full power of the weapon was not unleashed at all. (Fun fact, the largest explosion done for a film actually had higher explosive yield relative to these tests)
In that case, it may actually be most realistic to have a nuke that gets shot midair act like a trio of 5000kg FAB-5000s going off all at once. Still explodes, still makes a big boom but not quite the “portable star” one expects from a proper nuclear chain reaction.
https://youtu.be/W8QdjXyz_qQ - fairly well researched video on the smallest nuclear booms in the USA
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makes sense to shoot it especially of how hard it is
the nuke wont respawn, watch the video posted above
I don’t watch videos where I’m waiting around trying to watch what happens because I don’t understand the language…
I also don’t think there would be a quick reload for a nuke IRL, because really, there’s not that much of an idea to rearm a nuke in that respect… It’d be more thought of a one-way trip, or that it’d be done and anything else would be retaliatory and missile based.
The fact of the matter is that it won’t explode, and that the denial of this being dropped as the OP is pointing to, isn’t to do with them sitting on the airfield, it’s the bomb being shot out of the sky.
Tbf its a bit idiotic if your able to fly your nuke all the way to the battlefield dodging spaa, he-vt, and other planes. Using all your sp to drop the game winning weapon. Only for a .50 and such to say nope and destroy your nuke mid air even though you did everything right.
Now your in the middle of a map with little sp, probably at the end of the game with spaa around, and need to make a 2 trips just to do it again.
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I was “hit” by a bomb while it was in the airplane, with the bomb hatch closed, with a bullet from a 12.7mm machine gun. THAT’S FUCKING AWESOME. That you pulled your team to victory when your team just died and your only chance of winning was you, but the game told you: the dudes on the enemy team with a K/D of 0.5 should win, not you. It’s simple here, the developer is just a dumb monkey who didn’t even finish elementary school, but decided he can make games and sell bags for 80 dollars!
And yes, watch the video with subtitles or translate it using AI, otherwise you have to chew everything up like a little kid.
So the point is, it’s not even in the air when the bomb is dropped, it’s in the airplane when the bomb hatch is closed. I’ve lost the game a few times because of that.
so magically u can shoot bombs in the air but in the plane it somehow has a unlimited level of protection to not detonate (IRL if u shoot a bomb in mid air or in a plane it’ll blow up there n then)
thing is, you dont even get a second trip! you dont get the nuke by rearming!
With normal airplanes yes, it does, you can’t detonate a bomb in a closed bomb bay, but not with a nuke plane. That’s why I say it’s a bug!
I guess we must go back in time and rewrite history
What story?! Dude, what are you talking about?! I’m telling you about the game, not real life. War Thunder is not even a simulation, not even a “realistic game”!
what story? u brought up a story
Small mistake: not a story, but a history. So what’s the history?!