Author Topic: Stuka Bomb load and the reality of AH. (Read 877 times)

hitech · « **Reply #30 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:11:46 PM »

Urchin is correct.

HiTech

airspro · « **Reply #31 on:** December 02, 2002, 11:15:05 PM »

Thanks everyone .

brady · « **Reply #32 on:** December 02, 2002, 11:56:20 PM »

Ya thanks, this is one of the cool things about this game I am still learning.

Tumor · « **Reply #33 on:** December 03, 2002, 01:54:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Mister Fork
Easy for you to say Tumor. But for us lufties, it's a real pain.

Oh no offense. I just wanted to be the first "LUFTWHINER" love muffin in the thread!

AtmkRstr · « **Reply #34 on:** December 03, 2002, 12:52:47 PM »

Anybody know if German bombs had a similar explosive/iron cassing weight ratio as allied bombs?

I read somwhere that allied iron bombs are about 50% iron case and 50% explosive by weight.

I'm wondering if any differences are related to german hand grenade design philisophy. Early German hand grenades (ie potatoe masher) used much more explosive and much less shrapnel than allied grenades. They were therefore less effective at killing people and more effective at giving a shock/stun effect. Some later German grenades were of similar construction to allied grenades.

whgates3 · « **Reply #35 on:** December 03, 2002, 02:26:45 PM »

according to this page
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/bombs.html
500 kg luftwaffe GP bomb was 44% charge
250 kg was 52%
50 kg was 46%