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[II/JG54_Emil]

Originally Posted by II/JG54_Emil

Just a little update on the bombs:

I found some historical data concerning the destruction radius for German SC bombs and FAB 5000.

Since some of TD said the shrapnel-radius needs to be taken into account for FABs blast-radius in game, I want to post a table for the shrapnel radius that I found in Wolfgang Thamms book Fliegerbomben:

• Bomb__Shrapnel-Radius
• SC50_______32,5m_______25m in game
• SC250______65m_________77m in game
• SC500______95m_________82m in game
• SC1000____180m________168m in game
• SC2000____350m________275,8m in game

Here is why the FABs destruction radius in game is very dubious:

The most common explosive in FAB bombs used was Amatol(exception FAB50 using pure TNT).
SC bombs contained a mix of 40% Amatol and 60% TNT.
The TNT equivalent for Amatol is given with 0,85. That means it´s less powerful.
Accordingly the TNT equivalent of SCs is 0,94 where the FABs TNT equivalent is 0,85, which results in 9% more explosive power for the SC bombs in comparison to FAB bombs.

Historically the SC bombs had a heavier filling than the FAB bombs.

I found a source in the internet giving away the blast radius of a FAB 5000 with 428m!!! in game we have 2500m!!!

Another source states the radii to destroy concrete/wood in FAB bombs are:
FAB-50____12m/25m(stone/wood)____25m in game
FAB-100___18m/35m(stone/wood)____50m in game
FAB-250___28m/56m(stone/wood)____50m in game
FAB-500___40m/80m(stone/wood)___250m in game
FAB-1000_55m/112m(stone/wood)___500m in game

FAB-5000_____428m(_____/wood)__2500m in game


With this historical data in the background, I kindly ask TD to change the blast radius of FAB and SC bombs.

Another concern was that some of the German cockpits are historical incorrect, along with temperature problems of Bf-110, underheat in I-185.
Is TD interested in data on that to be able to do a change?

Since I was asked not to post any such info as above here, but send them via email to TD, I did so three days ago, asking if they are interested in detailed info about several bugs and historical data on blast radii of bombs.

But since I don´t get any answer from TD, I begin to wonder if there is any serious interest in changing errors within the game.

I hope there is.