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Originally Posted by nic727

I think that me, I can't change the bomb fuze, just the time that it will explode, but I have to arm the bombs with another control, or not?

If you have realistic bomb fuses difficulty option enabled you can select three types for fuses for most bombs:

Instant: Bomb explodes on impact, or almost immediately after. The time you are selecting (0.0, 0.3... etc) is the "delay" after impact. These bombs require a long arming time, and thus altitude.

Delay: Bomb has a moderate arming time, and moderate delay after impact (~4.0 seconds or so). depending on the situation, these are best for mast-height skip bombing (mast-height is 100 m).

Low level or long delay: Bomb has a very short arming time. That means you can drop it from 20 meters (or less in some cases). However, the delay is very long (7.0+ seconds) to allow the aircraft time to escape from the blast.

German bombs have an electric fuse system which allows the pilot to change the parameters in flight. You must assign a key to use this (mine is Ctrl+B).

In any case, you can view the drop parameters for any weapon by pressing the TAB key while in flight. This gives the arming time and drop height (and for torpedoes, drop speed). This assumes you are flying straight and level, and not diving, which would obviously shorten the available arming time for the bomb. Even if you have the same fuse selected (low-level, for instance) the arming time will not be the same for different bombs (ie HE 250kg or HE 500kg).

Hope this helps.