FWs Durabillity

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Originally Posted by majorfailure

Can you break the wings when there are 50kg bombs attached? Wings on weaker planes are breakable by only the force gravity and mass of attachments generate.

I don't think that parts can be broken by gravity alone - at least when I'm shooting at static models.

IL2 doesn't model the sort of sagging or bending you'd see if the airframe was failing due to gravity. Instead, broken parts often fly off stationary (flyable) aircraft in extremely unrealistic fashion.

But, the idea that wings might break under the strain of ordinance on their wings might have merit.

On the ground, I've seen no evidence that ordinance mounted on wing hardpoints affects wing breakage. But, what might be going on is that the game models increased wind resistance due to external ordinance and that combines with other damage effects to break wings. Sort of a combination of my guess and your guess.