Ab 250 and 500 bombing

[IceFire]

The best AB bombing technique I know of is using something fast like a FW190. Sight the target, initiate your run... drop to 50 meters and about 4 seconds before the target do a shallow pull out and drop the bomb (using 2 second delay). The bomb will initially fly just above the target and disperse the bomblets in a very tight formation at the front of the target area. I've killed as many as 8 tightly grouped tanks doing this.

The timing is VERY hard and to this day I can only pull it off every so often.

Also skip bombing the AB1000 along the ground can produce some devastating results... or it can be a total dud too.

[KG26_Alpha]

would be interesting to see a track of that.

[SG1_Gunkan]

Originally Posted by IceFire

The best AB bombing technique I know of is using something fast like a FW190. Sight the target, initiate your run... drop to 50 meters and about 4 seconds before the target do a shallow pull out and drop the bomb (using 2 second delay). The bomb will initially fly just above the target and disperse the bomblets in a very tight formation at the front of the target area. I've killed as many as 8 tightly grouped tanks doing this.

The timing is VERY hard and to this day I can only pull it off every so often.

Also skip bombing the AB1000 along the ground can produce some devastating results... or it can be a total dud too.

Can destroy tanks like russian AJ-2? do you use it against hard or soft targets?

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by SG1_Gunkan

Can destroy tanks like russian AJ-2? do you use it against hard or soft targets?

Not sure what an AJ-2 is (different name perhaps?) but I've killed T-34s and KV-1s doing this. AB500's have AP bomblets so if you do get a hit... it'll probably be a kill.

I'll try and do a track sometime soon of the process. Hard to pull off like I said.

[KG26_Alpha]

Apologies for clip quality.

4xAB500

Only 2 soft targets killed out of 50 trucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQEHzZoKyhg

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Apologies for clip quality.

4xAB500

Only 2 soft targets killed out of 50 trucks.

At 2500 meter pull out (or thereabouts) the area that you cover is going to be very wide. I guess that's the idea with a cluster bomb ... but if we're going for effective use... it's better to have a concentrated drop rather than a spread like that.

[SG1_Gunkan]

Originally Posted by IceFire

Not sure what an AJ-2 is (different name perhaps?) but I've killed T-34s and KV-1s doing this. AB500's have AP bomblets so if you do get a hit... it'll probably be a kill. I'll try and do a track sometime soon of the process. Hard to pull off like I said.

Please, show me a video with german AB bombs killing some hard ground unit, for example a single tank.


Thanks KG26_Alpha for the video. I hope that with the time all these kind of things get historically reworked.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by SG1_Gunkan

Please, show me a video with german AB bombs killing some hard ground unit, for example a single tank.


Thanks KG26_Alpha for the video. I hope that with the time all these kind of things get historically reworked.

Here we go:
http://cid-d368795040548bdd.office.l...-tankbust.ntrk

My joystick was a little funny so I didn't get the run I wanted but I did manage to kill 3 T-34 tanks with one AB500 bomb. Note the late pull out and 1.5 second bomb delay to cluster the bombs in a tight area.

Like I said... my best was 8 tanks with a single bomb.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by IceFire

Here we go:
http://cid-d368795040548bdd.office.l...-tankbust.ntrk

My joystick was a little funny so I didn't get the run I wanted but I did manage to kill 3 T-34 tanks with one AB500 bomb. Note the late pull out and 1.5 second bomb delay to cluster the bombs in a tight area.

Like I said... my best was 8 tanks with a single bomb.

Did anyone have a look? Did what I posted help anyone?

[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.