Bomb Fuze Delay

[PE_Tigar]

After a long pause I've been flying the Mustang a lot this week and (of course) got very frustrated with bombing missions. Now, one thing that surprised me quite a bit is that we don't have bomb fuze delay at all - yet the AN-M64 bombs we have in the sim were surely able to carry delayed fuses (and I'm not talking short delay only - you've had very short delays (~0.1 sec), short delays (4-5 sec, 15-18 sec) and even very long delay (up to 11 hours, booby-trapped). (source - here: http://www.lexpev.nl/downloads/bombfuzedata1945.pdf).

 

For practical reasons, I don't thing the first or third option would be useful in the sim, but I for one would love to see the second option introduced.

 

A second issue is that the current arming process modelling is unrealistic: you arm the bombs and presto, they're armed - you drop them from 15 feet altitude and boom, off they go (and take you along). In the document I referenced you'll find that each of the bombs had a minimum travel altitude it needed to be released from, for the fuze to actually arm after release (little prop in the nose or tail spinning, you know the drill), and of course that altitude also depended on the speed you're travelling (each fuze has its own graph). Now, again, modelling that precisely would probably be an overkill, but let's say if we have a simple logic whereby each bomb will need to be airborne for a given period of time to actually be armed on impact that would be much more realistic than what we have now.

 

Finally, fratricide - why do I always get fratricide when I kill myself with ordnance? Yes, I should be punished for being dumb but suicide is not fratricide, and I resent having my stats annihilated because of that :).

[Art-J]

Nah, 15 feet is a lot ;). One of the first things I tested in DCS Mustang was arming and dropping bombs while my plane was still standing on the ramp, with obvious result (kaboom!). Some sort of fuse operation modelling as described by You would be welcomed indeed.