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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: DREDger on November 21, 2008, 05:55:06 PM
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I've read accounts and heard interviews of WW2 bomb crews, who indicated sometimes bombers (under fire) would just explode and disintegrate completely.
I can imagine a critical hit with flack, maybe combined with an air/gas ratio that would cause this affect.
I wonder though, if sometimes a flack round would hit the playload of bombs, and that would set off a chain reaction so to speak. In other words, the bombs would explode and this created the affect witnessed.
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Shouldn't be hard to test in AH. The lanc's bomb bay is probably the easiest target, lots of exposed bombs.
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US Army tests determined that TNT has about a 4% chance of being shocked into detonation from the impact of a high powered rifle round. I wouldn't doubt that freak detonations occured sometimes. Payload detonation isn't modeled in AH.