HQ Bomb load

[Lusche]

but if you wanted, couldnt you put the gear down, adjust the bomb arm height thingie, and get really really really really really really low? at least in offline mode, so that you could just get a massive line?

Yes, you can drop with gear down and having the drones in a line... but thats totally without any practical merit

[MachFly]

Do we know the length of the HQ?
If we do then we can fly at the speed which will drop all bombs on HQ. 

[Lusche]

Do we know the length of the HQ?
If we do then we can fly at the speed which will drop all bombs on HQ. 

With the "gear out, drones in line" trick? Won't work, as the drones do drop at the vey same moment the lead bomber does.

[MachFly]

With the "gear out, drones in line" trick? Won't work, as the drones do drop at the vey same moment the lead bomber does.

I understand that, I'm saying that we need to slow down the bombers so they do not pass the target in the 2 seconds that it takes to drop the bombs. So I am trying to figure how how long is the HQ so we can calculate the speed required to pass it in 2 seconds.

[Rolex]

 

[RTHolmes]

these would work nicely, still 2 sets of lancs though ...

[remy1dog]

What exactly do you do that?

lancs at 200 ft above the ground, set salvo to 14, and pull up to try and avoid killing yourself.

[AWwrgwy]

these would work nicely, still 2 sets of lancs though ...

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They won't fit in a B-29 either.

 


wrongway

[Krusty]

It would seem what you really need is not a formation, but 3 single-planes flying together hitting the same target?

Mach, you cannot take out an HQ with 1 single formation. Not even if you hit every bomb (which Lusche has shown you cannot do, especially with formations). The required lbs of explosives is about 2 formations' worth of lancasters, last I checked.


Lusche: Have you tried the 4x 4k with a formation? What's the spread on that? Less ord overall, but still 16000lbs per plane. Less bombs = less scattering, right? Less line-in-the-sand carpetting, in and out and gone.

[Lusche]

Lusche: Have you tried the 4x 4k with a formation? What's the spread on that? Less ord overall, but still 16000lbs per plane. Less bombs = less scattering, right? Less line-in-the-sand carpetting, in and out and gone.

That was actually the first thing I ever tried in the B-29. Even though my speed was very moderate and I was bombing from low alt, I failed. The formation width was too big, the drone's bombs were missing the HQ left & right. And as shown in this thread, near misses do not scratch the HQ.