Trust me, bombs are affected by wind.
Well, yes and no. From my experience, once you drop your bombs, they're not affected by any changes in the wind as they fall -- so if you have a 20kt wind at 150° from 15,000' up, and you drop from 20,000', the bombs will fall as if they were experiencing that wind all the way to the ground. However, the line of fall -- what vector the bombs take when they drop -- is a function of your airspeed and heading plus any wind at your drop alt. So you're right, Beefcake, in that the wind controls how the bombs will fall, but ImADot's right in that, once they're dropped, their fall doesn't depend on the wind any more.
Absolutely correct and provable.
Offline set 20 mph wind from 0 to 10k and equal an opposite wind above that
Fly perpendicular to the top wind layer above and below 20K, site your target and get calibration perfect and drop the bombs
If wind effected bombs as they pass between layers one would assume there is an altitude near 20k that would eliminate drift altogether.
Never happens.
Reset the wind to only one direction and repeat the test...compare the total drift distance to the drift distance you observed in the first tests
I wish bombs were effected by wind layering.
It would be a fascinating little computer program to write to calculate the impact point based on layers, speed, altitude, heading and then display that as a cross hair painted over a fully zoomed screen shot through the bomb site of a generic target with range marks.
