Ab 250 and 500 bombing

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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Watched it. I did test similar approach, but the bomb seems very ineffective. The convoy I attacked lost 4 trucks, not a single tank and they were in the middle of the "cluster". I think the main gripe people have with the AB compared to the Russian counterpart PTAB is that it requires less hits to get more kills with PTAB than AB.

As far as I know it only takes a single hit for both PTAB and the AB bomblets... the "problem" is that the PTAB is more like the modern bomblet dispensers that they use on Tornadoes... they drop and spread beneath the aircraft whereas the AB is a more abstract system. You drop the bomb... then it explodes... then you hope the bomblets hit the target.

I blew the timing yesterday online and the bomblet exploded as it hit the ground next to the tank meaning the bomblets burried themselves in the ground and did nothing.

Still if you time it right you can take out large numbers of tanks. Once again... I've managed to take out 8 in one AB500 drop... It was hard and the tanks were clustered but it is possible. You need to use the same approach that I did. The only thing I can't speak to is the actual modeling of the bomb and if that is accurate. I have no idea... I just try and make it work.