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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Alucard_II on February 14, 2015, 09:10:52 PM
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Been a while, its Allie. :t
I flew my first 29 today... flew about 20 sectors and annihilated a bishie aaa fac. It was so intensely fun.
Thanks to LTOWN for walking me through flying the behemoth and gunning down a few fighters trying to get us down :aok
After that, I was wondering.
Say if we actually did have a nuclear bomb in the game. Would you be able to takeoff, fly, drop it, and return home?
YES.
(not a wish for a atomic bomb, i actually find the idea stupid and it would ruin the game)
I did some research and found out some interesting things...
A bare B-29 with 1 Atomic bomb, would be easier to take off than the 4000lbers. (im using the fat man bomb as a basis)
With the B-29 loadout, you can equip up to 4x 4000lb GP bombs. That adds up to 16,000lbs of cargo.
The B-29 has a maximum payload carry weight of up to 20,000lbs. (wait... why not one more 4000lber HTC?) :headscratch:
Anyways, the Fat Man atomic bomb weighed roughly 10,300lbs in total.
So, it'd be easier to take off with the atomic bomb than it would be with the 4000lbers :eek:
I just found this really wierd and interesting. Hopefully some of you do as well.
Thanks
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*Waits for the few folks who will think this is a wish for the nuke*
:D
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The B-29 has a maximum payload carry weight of up to 20,000lbs. (wait... why not one more 4000lber HTC?) :headscratch:
Because weight isn't the only limiting factor. You have to have somewhere to hang the bomb.
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4x4000lb is an HQ setup. Basically you have 16kx3=48,000 lbs.
If you use 5x4000 your at 60,000 which is over kill.
B29 is a much better HQ killer. You don't see them used for it due to perks and lack of desire to bail after drp because of cost.
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4x4000lb is an HQ setup. Basically you have 16kx3=48,000 lbs.t.
A 4k cookie doesn't do 4000lb of damage but 2344lb. So you have an effective destructive power of only just over 28,000lb.
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8x2000lbs is the only loadout that can take out HQ in one pass when in B-29. It can be done with 40x500 too but it requires at least 2 passes because u don't get enough bombs out in time to hit the HQ in one pass.
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I believe both the "Enola Gay" and "Box Car" were stripped of their 50s to save weight. They may have only had a tail gunner. So that may improve performance slightly?
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I believe both the "Enola Gay" and "Box Car" were stripped of their 50s to save weight. They may have only had a tail gunner. So that may improve performance slightly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverplate
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Very Interesting!
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