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Old 10-12-2010, 05:38 AM
Erkki Erkki is offline
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Some of our guys found the German AB bombs useful in ONE attack. In ADW war, supplies from depots and outside map are carried by convoys and trains. Convoys are easy, typically max 12 guns for 40-ish vehicles, but trains... The flak is insane. On a good example 5 Fockes dive bombing from 6000m to 3000m, 3 were shot down and 1 suffered heavy damage, as a typical result.

It was found that when DIVE bombing from fairly high altitudes (release at 3000m+) to stay safe, properly timed AB500 would give comparable results with the SC500, and chance to hit and kill at least a single train car was better, and we switched to it. When the bomb is in vertical dive, the bomblet spread is circle shaped - with some practice it can be made to explode at about 500m, where direct hit would result in 1-2 train cars less killed than with SC500, but near-miss would kill always something, when it almost never did with the SC500.
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