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by Beowolff » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:02 pm
question, why would you call out the 500 pounder's effectiveness? it did its job. nicely too. it destroyed the P-47. which is basically all that a five hundred pounder high ex bomb was designed/required to do. sure, it didn't pulverize the jug or blast it to cosmic dust---but then a five hundred pounder under those same or similiar circumstances most likely wouldn't have (unless maybe DIRECTLY under the fuselage---wing tanks etc and the plane was perfectly stationary---ie not moving AWAY from the bomb and its blast) anyway. with the bomb being dropped only a few feet to the runway, any K-energy from a long (normal bomb) drop was non-existant relying only upon the pure Ex-energy of the blast itself to do the damage. and in the Hi-Ex explosion, much (even most) of the actual damaging energy was directed elsewhere....ie, the runway, the open air around the sides, etc, etc... leaving only a moderate amount to connect to, and act upon the P-47. in fact, i would lay odds that the shockwave of the detonation actually 'shoved' the movable Jug out of the way of the more damaging actual explosive blast. had the Jug been instead a solid, immovable object,,,like say a building,,,that could not actually move with the shock wave, the five hundred pounder would have surely created more direct pulverization/destruction.
the bomb did its job though. it destroyed the P-47. but the facts are, that DESPITE the nasty blast that destroyed the Jug---the pilot survived...and with only minor injuries too boot----coming to the real meat of the post that the P-47 was a DAMNED rugged plane in real life and could many times protect its pilots from even the most awesome of damage. and the secondary point to the post, ie that in IL2 the game...most often a single bullet or two from AI or human gunners will destroy that same plane.
or so i think.
anyone else?
Beowolff