Author Topic: Bomber drones  (Read 717 times)

Offline Vinkman

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Re: Bomber drones
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2013, 03:22:18 PM »
Please fix or Explain to me why the bomber drones can't stay with the lead...... I like to bomb at very low speed so i can hit more targets but when i get to the minumum speed i can with out losing alt the drones fall out of the sky.... If I can maintain low speed and level why the hell can't they? Same with turns.... if I can make a hard bank to come around to target, why cant they make the same banking manuever?

I was going to ask the exact opposite question. I chased a formation of Arados around the other day in a 262. the guys barrel rolled the formation about 5 times and never lost a drone. The drone AI routine is drones to having them Warp back to position so I had to be extremely cautious not to collide. This caused me to lay quite far back which put in danger of getting 20mm'ed. The "Crash into my drones, or get shot" defense was quite effective for a long time. If the bandit hadn't been deep in out territory he would have escaped as fighter support probably would have saved him, as we were low and slow when I finally got him, having started at 25K.

I could not believe that those drones stayed with him during all those gyrations.  :eek:
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Offline earl1937

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Re: Bomber drones
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2013, 04:39:46 PM »
My B-24 was not clumsy!!  She was ummm...sedate.

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:old: How about "deliberate"?
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