Cpt. Weber Posted July 11, 2021 Posted July 11, 2021 I'm not sure if it was reported already for the F-14. How to recreate: Pick 4 Mk-84, Single, N/T, set ripple quantity 2, ripple distance 10m, CCIP, around 20-25 degrees dive. Pickle twice in around 1 second interval. Blow your ass off. (Reference mission, edited (exchanged bombs for Mk-84) instant mission with bombing the island on Marianas map. 1
Cpt. Weber Posted July 13, 2021 Author Posted July 13, 2021 10 hours ago, Spurts said: Make sure you have positive G on the jet. With all due respect, you don't seem to understand, it concerns the collision of the bombs with each other, midair, not with the jet. I assumed a correct bombing run profile. Here's the moment of explosion.
Cpt. Weber Posted July 13, 2021 Author Posted July 13, 2021 Here's another perspective, right before the explosion.
Spurts Posted July 13, 2021 Posted July 13, 2021 Apologies, you are correct in that I misunderstood. I blew myself up a lot initially by not having enough G on the jet. Looking at your pictures it doesn't look like 10m between releases, looks more like pairs. 10m would still be really close for Mk84s. The bomb itself is over 3m long. Even still, that is clearly not the distance between releases. 1
Cpt. Weber Posted July 13, 2021 Author Posted July 13, 2021 (edited) That is true, the interval I used may be forbidden somewhere, I did not check the Natops for that. I just found it strange, the bombs seemed to drift towards each other. I menaged to replicate this several times in a row yesterday. Today tried twice and they didn't blow each other up, just came really close. The problem doesn't seem to concern the Mk-83 though as they are smaller. Edited July 13, 2021 by Cpt. Weber
Spurts Posted July 13, 2021 Posted July 13, 2021 could very well be that the small gap between closely dropped Mk84s is creating a venturi that draws them closer together until they hit. Could be something else.
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