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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

Balst mechanism doesnt explode if you drop it from low altitude to "soft" material like water. When it stops boundcing, it goes to bottom of the water. When you bomb, you usually drop bomb over 100m and if you try bouncing, you usually try to hit da ship. Im pretty sure bombs dont explode from little sidehit... Small bombs bounce in a land too like water, and big bombs almost everytime turn nose down even little bit. B-29 doesn't keep in one piece if you go 1200 kmh+ what is needed for escaping atomic bombs. Your mind should say you cannot bounce atomic bomb, over 3000kg cannot bounce, like atomic bombs don't.


Yes, this is pointless message, repeating other guys words :wink: