Yes, a proper man's map lasting a month, at least, is what we need to add some
immersion and job satisfaction. Just think of the party to celebrate mission
complete :)
I think you have a direct hit on something of an idea there Stickz old chap.
Perhaps you should post something like this as a suggestion on the Combat Box
forum thread. Could be the start of one of those nice long threads that gets
everyone nice and exercised, lol.
Should stop bomber pilots getting those quick easy kills me thinks. Call this
a combat simulation, pha!
Happy landings,
Talisman
On Sunday, 24 November 2019, 18:41:32 GMT, tim foster
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is a very old video of American P47s in Italy where they filmed a
mission which included bombing a bridge (it made a name for P47 called hun
hunter). Think 12 bombed it, 2 bombs each, still appeared intact at the end,
almost all missed it. They dropped from much higher than the average on line.
And online I would guess the average hit rate is about 80%. And whilst I
frequently see bombs bounce and skip from a ground target, I seldom remember
seeing it happen on a bridge. Although its a very good excuse for missing.
But the strength is not really modelled, its just a hit point number. Does
not matter where you hit - in fact you can just hit the ramp on some to do it.
Look at how much they threw at Remargen. And there was a bridge in Korea? that
the Americans threw a lot of effort to destroy to no avail. And how much
explosive did it take for engineers to blow one - and thats being able to place
it at specific weak points. That was why combat box actually added bunkers
around bridges that also needed destroying on later missions, so could not
kill it with one bomb (and got complained at).
Thats 200-400 1000lb bombs, put that kind of strength on line and you would
get missions lasting a month (in particular bridge to far).
TTFN Stickz
On 24/11/2019 13:28, 56RAF_phoenix wrote:
Shores, 2nd TAF, p. 7, "... fighter-bombers, which required an average of
between 100 and 200 tons of bombs and rockets to destroy a bridge, compared
with 640 tons for level bombers."
Since one bomb is pretty much the same as any other of the same weight,
accuracy is the issue and 100-200 tons refers to total delivered with
fighter-bomber accuracy.
Of course, some bridges would be metal girders, others stone or even wood. But
is makes the amount we drop to destroy a bridge look nowhere near enough.
56RAF_phoenix
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