Skip Bombing

[rayace1]

why dont you try using some rockets in your favorite fast plane.  see how good your chances of survival are against cv ack.  then think about skip bombing again.  and no skip bombing wasnt used on land   .


semp

Actually the P-51 strike fighter squadrons used skip bombing on land.

[VoX]

So how is my Skip Bombing idea coming along, it must be nearly ready for deployment by now?   

[pembquist]

Nice back from the dead thread. Just wanted to say that you can do mast head bombing do the cv as long as no one in the 5" is looking your way. You kind of toss the bomb pulling up from on the deck.  If your fast you can survive the auto ack more than 50 percent of the time.

[F77]

As for aircraft skipping on land...

There was a series of novels by a retired RAF pilot, Robert Jackson, following a pilot through the war, from a Hurricane at the Battle of France, through 1940 and to the end of the war in the Gloster Meteor and afterwards in to the Vampire  .  Two of the novels focus on the beloved Mossie. (Yes, I have the full run of novels!).  One of these two novels focus on low level precision raids.

On one sortie they come across a train heading for a tunnel.  They skip a 500lb bomb in at the far end of the tunnel, run back and skip one in the other, blocking the train in.

The next they get sent on a special op to skip a bomb in to a large ammo dump, or similar, through a mine entrance.

The last is a raid to take out a gestapo HQ.

Yes, it is fiction.  Yes it has probably been 15 years since I read them.  But by a retired pilot based on experience.

Regards,

Leonard

[mthrockmor]

why dont you try using some rockets in your favorite fast plane.  see how good your chances of survival are against cv ack.  then think about skip bombing again.  and no skip bombing wasnt used on land    .


semp

I read an account of a Butcher Bird pilot who flew the 'F8' ground attack model. He spoke of coming in low, on the deck and skip bombing. It is the only reference I've read and who knows but...

Boo

[Eric19]

MUST...........RESIST........ ...THE..........URGE......... .TO..........FLY..........NOE ............WITH.........A... ..........B29


  +1 on skip bombing lol

[Ack-Ack]

I read an account of a Butcher Bird pilot who flew the 'F8' ground attack model. He spoke of coming in low, on the deck and skip bombing. It is the only reference I've read and who knows but...

Boo

Look at some of the videos of F4Us hitting Japanese fortified positions using skip bombing techniques, especially with the napalm bombs.

ack-ack

[tuton25]

The last is a raid to take out a gestapo HQ.

This actualy happened. The Gestapo put political prisoners on the top floor of the HQ so the allies would not attempt to hit it. The Mossies skipped small bombs in at about 1,000ft so not to harm the prisoner

[MK-84]

Could we have skip bombing please on water and land, nothing would satisfy me more than to skip bomb a 250 into the side of Mr Tiger or Mr CV. (Obviously the 'nothing would satisfy me more' was for effect, i do actually have a life, just not found it yet!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_bombing

I know its Wiki, the art of fiction made real!   

 

Wiki is not fiction, errors here and there perhaps but overall a good source of info.  You could also view the citation's listed at the bottom of the page.

[matt]

MUST...........RESIST...........THE..........URGE..........TO..........FLY..........NOE............WITH.........A.............B29


  +1 on skip bombing lol

[TheRhino]

Skip bombing on land was a widely used tactic among pilots of the A-36, the P-51's predecessor. I have footage if anyone is in doubt. I fully agree with skip bombing, and hope to see it in the future.

+1
 

[MK-84]

Skip bombing on land was a widely used tactic among pilots of the A-36, the P-51's predecessor. I have footage if anyone is in doubt. I fully agree with skip bombing, and hope to see it in the future.

+1
 

How does this work?  I mean I understand the principle.  I thought there was a propeller on the front of the bomb that has to rotate so many times to arm it.  How does it not get demolished as soon as the bomb hits the ground?

[tuton25]

How does this work?  I mean I understand the principle.  I thought there was a propeller on the front of the bomb that has to rotate so many times to arm it.  How does it not get demolished as soon as the bomb hits the ground?

To skip bomb you need to have a delay fuse bomb and be at very low altitude. The delay in the fuse alows the bomb to skip along the ground before detonating several seconds later, and letting the plane escape

[icepac]

It's been active in warbirds since version 2.77, I believe.

One thing you have to do is immediately break off as the skipping bombs will skip along below you and blow you up.

[MK-84]

To skip bomb you need to have a delay fuse bomb and be at very low altitude. The delay in the fuse alows the bomb to skip along the ground before detonating several seconds later, and letting the plane escape

Ahhh so it's a specific type of bomb then.  Somehow I was thinking that it was done with a regular iron bomb.