BRU-42*2/3

[Captain Orso]

The title says it all... what?, you don't get it? 

Okay okay, jk about not getting it 

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What do I have to do be able to use BRU-42's with only 2 (in words two) bombs per BRU-42?

The LAU-88 had the selections of 1, 2, or 3 AGM-65D's  for example. How do I achieve the same versatility with the BRU-42? Willing to use mods which pass integrity checks on MP servers.

There is reasoning behind this request. On MP Dynamic Campaign servers on which you are only allowed a limited number of specific weapons types -- for example, only 4 GBU-12's -- but unlimited from other, mostly unguided weapons, having to spread the GBU's out over 4 stations wastes precious weapons real estate, because the weaponers are too stupid to use 2 BRU-42's with only 2 GBU's per BRU-42.

[silverdevil]

i would add that there are most likely reasoning behind the design. the cantilever of the weapons on the wings cause stress towards the end of the wing. especially with a bunch of jinking. i looked through lots of photos and most i see do not have the weapons stations fully populated. almost exclusively a fighter will have a wingman and perhaps another element to get the target in a quick attack. one plane would need multiple passes. and remember the strike mission is different from the cas mission. i am sure there are some sme's that will be able to chime in. i did find someone that made a mod that had 26 mavericks. that would be sweet but not realistic.

[Captain Orso]

Thanks for the reply.

I can't believe that having only 2 bombs on the BRU-42 is a detriment to it's structural integrity. If that were the case, any time you drop only one  bomb from a rack and continue flying, you would be endangering your aircraft. 

Knowing the way DCSers think, the notion probably never came up that anyone would ever want to put less than 3 bombs on the BRU-42. That would be... silly. Everyone wants a bomb-truck after all.

[silverdevil]

42 minutes ago, Captain Orso said:

2 bombs on the BRU-42 is a detriment to it's structural integrity

sorry i meant 2 bombs would be less of a detriment. dropping one would lessen the detriment even more. its simply physics. the more wing load, the more stress. IRL boeing has replaced many of the wings on the remaining a-10s. https://www.boeing.com/defense/support/a-10-wing-replacement-program/index.page

[jaylw314]

8 hours ago, Captain Orso said:

The title says it all... what?, you don't get it? 

Okay okay, jk about not getting it 

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What do I have to do be able to use BRU-42's with only 2 (in words two) bombs per BRU-42?

The LAU-88 had the selections of 1, 2, or 3 AGM-65D's  for example. How do I achieve the same versatility with the BRU-42? Willing to use mods which pass integrity checks on MP servers.

There is reasoning behind this request. On MP Dynamic Campaign servers on which you are only allowed a limited number of specific weapons types -- for example, only 4 GBU-12's -- but unlimited from other, mostly unguided weapons, having to spread the GBU's out over 4 stations wastes precious weapons real estate, because the weaponers are too stupid to use 2 BRU-42's with only 2 GBU's per BRU-42.

As a work around, why not just put the BRU-42 with 3x bombs on one side only?  You can still put a TER of AGM-65's or some other bombs on the other side to balance them out initially

Edited November 11, 2021 by jaylw314

[Captain Orso]

1 hour ago, silverdevil said:

sorry i meant 2 bombs would be less of a detriment. dropping one would lessen the detriment even more. its simply physics. the more wing load, the more stress. IRL boeing has replaced many of the wings on the remaining a-10s. https://www.boeing.com/defense/support/a-10-wing-replacement-program/index.page

The wings are being replace because they are old and the AF wants to re-ferbish the A-10s for many years of additional use. It's part of a modernisation program in which the A-10s get a glass cockpit and new avionics. Otherwise the A-10s would have to be pulled from use and scrapped. It has nothing to do with the wings having been overloaded.

 

1 hour ago, jaylw314 said:

As a work around, why not just put the BRU-42 with 3x bombs on one side only?  You can still put a TER of AGM-65's or some other bombs on the other side to balance them out initially

 

I can use 120 points to buy weapons. GBU's cost 30 points each. AGM-65's also cost 30. Mk-82's cost nothing, as so ZUNE's and other unguided rockets. Basically, all guided munitions and cluster munitions are either forbidden or limited.

Of course I could put 3 GBU's on one station and 1 on a second, but I'd really like to stay close to a clean loadout, and not being able to put only 2 GBU's on one stations is illogical and just irks the hell out of me... and I'm not going to talk about it anymore, because it just gets my blood up. I worked over 35 years in IT, including as an application programmer and developer. If I'd been so incapable at fixing simple things as this in a timely fashion, I'd have been taxi driver for 25 years.