Bomber Drone Warps

[grizz441]

6 Second clip of a B17 drone warping from behind me directly into the middle of my aircraft.  Is this drone warping really the best solution possible to keeping the formation close?  Seems pretty weak when stuff like this happens.

http://www.dasmuppets.com/public/Grizz/jetwarp.ahf

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[TwinBoom]

warping drones are bad mothers

[Ack-Ack]

That's why I never target the lead bomber anymore until he's the last one. I used to get collisions when the drone would warp to the lead position as I flew through the formation after blowing up the lead (manned) bomber.

ack-ack 

[Shuffler]

The gamey buff drivers will stretch out their drones to help instigate this. You'd think the warping drones could be fixed.

[Lusche]

That's why I never target the lead bomber anymore until he's the last one.

That's the right way to counter the warp-after-death problem.

But you can't do nothing about drones warping due to bomber maneuvering. Either by wild maneuvers (huge collision risk for the fighter) or by relatively shallow turns at high speeds, where the drones simply jump out of your gunsight again and again.

[Babalonian]

Drone warping from my perspective seems to be worse than usual this month, I must admit.  In particular the situation that Ack Ack mentioned, the first initial warp/jump of a drone when the manned/lead bomber is suddenly destroyed as it moves up and into the lead position is brutal if we (the attacking fighter aircraft) don't keep a wide berth from the formation.

[Wingnutt]

I often run into the issue where  shoot the wing of the lead, and as he spirals down the pilot does not bail, so his drones just jump and bounce all over the sky, invulnerable until he bails or hits the ground, then they snap back into formation..


I often dont target the lead for this exact reason, but sometimes especially in a 30mm bird coming in from a high 3/9 at high speed, I tend to pepper the whole formation on the initial pass.

[bj229r]

That's why I never target the lead bomber anymore until he's the last one. I used to get collisions when the drone would warp to the lead position as I flew through the formation after blowing up the lead (manned) bomber.

ack-ack 

On the other hand, if he's in a fairly drastic turn, the drones are all over, and the leader is the only consistent target

[lyric1]

Hmmm Every post in this thread I agree with 100% go figure?

[uptown]

Go for the right drone 1st, then the left and the lead last. Do it in that order and they won't warp. 

[Lusche]

Go for the right drone 1st, then the left and the lead last. Do it in that order and they won't warp.  

That's not the major warp problem though ...

[smoe]

I believe the warping drones were invented late in WWII to counter the 262 threat.