Author Topic: Skip Bombing---B-25 (Read 1417 times)

Sweet2th · « **on:** August 24, 2007, 11:04:28 AM »

In WW2 The 5th Air Force incorparated skip bombing into it's arsenal.

Wonder if we'll be able to do the same thing here in AH-2??

whiteman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2007, 11:10:58 AM »

what you going to skip bombs at??

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2007, 11:28:32 AM »

Camaros

whiteman · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2007, 11:39:20 AM »

guess i'll cancel the trip to the river this weekend.

VansCrew1 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2007, 11:40:27 AM »

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Originally posted by whiteman
what you going to skip bombs at??

cv?

Krusty · « **Reply #5 on:** August 24, 2007, 12:21:31 PM »

Skip bombing was used against lightly armed TRANSPORTS, for the most part. On WARSHIPS you have armored sides, and a bomb won't do as much damage (especially near the waterline armor belt), and you'll never get into attack range before being killed by defensive fire.

You take it up against a CV you'll die 5k out from puffy ack.

TUXC · « **Reply #6 on:** August 24, 2007, 12:29:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
Skip bombing was used against lightly armed TRANSPORTS, for the most part.

Destroyers are pretty lightly armored. Not sure how much work would have to be done to implement it, though. Some kind of on the fly calculations would have to be done with speed, altitude, bomb weight, and impact angle to determine whether the bomb skips or not.

Treize69 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 24, 2007, 12:33:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
Skip bombing was used against lightly armed TRANSPORTS, for the most part.

Ok, the interisland Barges on some of the maps come to mind.

Also, they could (and did) skip bomb ground targets. Drop OTD, turn away, bomb keeps going and you are getting out of the line of fire a lot sooner.

When are we getting parafrags?

Sweet2th · « **Reply #8 on:** August 24, 2007, 12:37:09 PM »

They dropped the bombs at 200 feet and 200 MHP while setting the fuse to a 5 second delay, so that the bomb would get far into the ship before detonating.

Laciner · « **Reply #9 on:** August 24, 2007, 12:54:02 PM »

"They dropped the bombs at 200 feet and 200 MHP while setting the fuse to a 5 second delay, so that the bomb would get far into the ship before detonating."

Presumably the bombs would have an armoured cap, otherwise they would just break apart on impact. It looks like there's a book on the subject, "Skip Bombing" by James T Murphy:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2287q9

He flew B-17s. He is a Buff buff. According to the blurb, "the aircraft were flown at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night. One-thousand pound bombs, equipped with four-to-five second fuses, were dropped from the B-17s."

Skip Bombing would be a great name for a fighter ace.

Yknurd · « **Reply #10 on:** August 24, 2007, 01:31:56 PM »

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Originally posted by whiteman
what you going to skip bombs at??

Dams.

Sweet2th · « **Reply #11 on:** August 24, 2007, 01:34:34 PM »

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Originally posted by whiteman
what you going to skip bombs at??

CV's, LVT's, Barges, Destroyers, Cruisers, etc, etc.

Kweassa · « **Reply #12 on:** August 24, 2007, 01:35:30 PM »

Well..

.. we already have a bunch of tards who SKIP the entire process of calibration, fly 200ft @ 200mph over an ack-blazing airbase, spray the entire payload in a damned messy pattern, and then either auger or miserably get shot down by a lot of annoyed fighter pilots.

...

So yeah, AH does have skip bombing. The only difference is it ain't the bombs skipping around, but rather the smoldering carcasses of witless pawns with a lazy attitude.

Sweet2th · « **Reply #13 on:** August 24, 2007, 02:25:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Kweassa
Well..

.. we already have a bunch of tards who SKIP the entire process of calibration, fly 200ft @ 200mph over an ack-blazing airbase, spray the entire payload in a damned messy pattern, and then either auger or miserably get shot down by a lot of annoyed fighter pilots.

...

So yeah, AH does have skip bombing. The only difference is it ain't the bombs skipping around, but rather the smoldering carcasses of witless pawns with a lazy attitude.

Don't be a hater.Just cuz someone else enjoys something you don't.And whats the big deal if someone augers??Oh thats right, they will mess up thier K/D ratio.So why are you worried about someone else Augering?You didn't get the kills for them augering and no wtg's from the peanut gallery???Is your score drastically effect by this???

Now after i fly low level and bomb a target i can turn around switch to the HEAVY GUN and demolish what ever else.

Krusty · « **Reply #14 on:** August 24, 2007, 02:37:05 PM »

It's not being a "hater" to hate the morons. Morons deserve our hate, sometimes.

I've seen too many tards go WAY out of their way simply to cause greif for other players in this game. I sort of agree with Kweassa's underlying point.

Sure, you can have skip bombs....

....When CV groups get 200% as many ack guns as they do now, all with increased lethality. Make it so you never pass over the CV on the way through, make it so you get shot down horribly and violently before even reaching the center of the fleet.

THEN you can have skip bombing.