wholehawg Posted July 4, 2015 Posted July 4, 2015 I cant seem to figure out if there is a way to change this. Every time I drop a cluster bomb it is bursting too low and all the bomblets fall in a 10 foot area. I have tried both CCRP and CCIP delivery from high and low altitude...and at Sea Level thinking maybe it was a barometric thing. I saw a lot of posts about issues with the CBU 97 and oddly enough that works great for me.
kontiuka Posted July 4, 2015 Posted July 4, 2015 No, there's no way to set this in the A-10A. 10 ft? You sure it's not more like 100 ft? They're pretty concentrated but 10 ft seems extreme. Anyway, maybe one way to offset this is to drop multiple CBUs with a small ripple delay. I don't find they're very useful anyway - at least against armour. Even a direct hit doesn't seem to do much. CBU-97s are far better.
wholehawg Posted July 5, 2015 Author Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) I was attacking a column of trucks and the burst pattern wasn't much bigger that the truck. Here is the result of a pair of CBU-87. No burst pattern at all. Edited July 5, 2015 by wholehawg adding pic
WildBillKelsoe Posted July 5, 2015 Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) looks like what you're describing as a case of 87's HOF which is only modeled AFAIK for the Charlie. Maybe use CCRP? IIRC someone did a height/footprint table for LOMAC's clusters. Edited July 5, 2015 by WildBillKelsoe AWAITING ED NEW DAMAGE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR WW2 BIRDS Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow.
wholehawg Posted July 6, 2015 Author Posted July 6, 2015 Hey Wildbill, You are exactly correct in that its an HOF problem. Unfortunately CCRP doesn't make a difference :( I did some testing over the weekend and set up a mission with AI to see how they ran the attack. Initial condition was A-10A @ 12000 MSL about 7 NM from target, which was a column of trucks. The AI descends to about 3 - 4000 AGL and makes a shallow run in to the target. What this does is cause the bomb to burst at a shallow angle and scatter the bomblets over a wider area.
Thor_HUN Posted October 21, 2015 Posted October 21, 2015 The CBU-87 is a simple cluster bomb like the MK20 or russian RBK bombs, against infantry and light armored vehicles. The CBU-97 is a "smart" cluster bomb against tanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon Unfortunately in A-10A you can't set the burst height. Core i5 7500, 64GB DDR4 3200MHz, GTX1070 8GB, Logitech G940 - All modules and maps except : CE2 (never... )
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