[grppaperboy]

Ahh but in reality if you did that with a real bomb that close to the water youd be blown into the next millenia, which is what I was originally getting at, what you can do with a bomb in il2 bares very little resemblance to reality :roll: :lol:

not really, water skip bombing was a very popular method of anti-shipping attack in the pacific, and i'm pretty sure that was added for the Pacific Fighters release, as i'm sure i recall in the old days dropping bombs in water and tey'd just drop through it doing nothing. bombs are usually set to arm after falling or travelling a certain distance, so dropping them at low altitude would not necessarily result in an explosion. i don't know for sure how the detonation process was carried out in these attacks in ww2, but i imagine the bombing fuse was changed to an impact fuse so the bomb would skip on its side and blow up when the nose impacted the side of the ship. though i will grant that skip bombing with fatman or little boy would most certainly be suicidal as i can't imagine a B-29 being able to fly quite that fast to escape that blast