Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: bangsbox on June 10, 2015, 03:44:32 PM
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I would love to see aerial/air2air bombs add with the new update. It would definitely add some stand off buff killing power to the Japanese plane set and German. I also would love to see the r4m rockets added to the game for the appropriate planes (190, 262, 163) and the current air2air rocket added to the 262.
http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/aerial-bombing.html (http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/aerial-bombing.html)
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Aerial bombing was used in 1943, I believe it was a 250kg time delayed bomb. Obviously dive bombing a "formation" is harder then it sounds; the idea really was to break up the formations.
Not sure how wide spread it was; I tried to do some research on it but really couldn't find anything more then a field modification. Far as I know it was only Fw-190s that used them, the drag was considerable - the bomb shackle would be stuck on the aircraft making it ultimately useless as a dogfighter even after the bomb was dropped.
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Bf109's also attempted bombing attacks, as documented in Heinz Knocke's "I Flew for the Fuhrer"
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Bf109's also attempted bombing attacks, as documented in Heinz Knocke's "I Flew for the Fuhrer"
He had a lucky 1st drop. The the tactic was dropped because the difficulty in aiming made them very vulnerable to the escorts.
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He had a lucky 1st drop. The the tactic was dropped because the difficulty in aiming made them very vulnerable to the escorts.
Indeed. The tactic as a whole was not very effective, regardless of airframe.