In this article I will tell you about an interesting bombing technique in the IL-2 Sturmovik flight simulator, which I discovered by accident while playing with American battleships on Okinawa.
Necessary
The IL-2 Sturmovik game installed on the computer on the engine of forgotten battles (all parts, except for Pearl Harbor and Forgotten Battles themselves, cannot work autonomously, so they should be installed on top of Forgotten Battles, or even better - right away install "Platinum Collection")
Instructions
Step 1
Customization
In the quick editor, select the modes: map - "Okinawa", defense - "no", in the aircraft settings, the bomb timer is 5 seconds (this time is enough for even a slow Pe-8, flying over the ground and dropping a five-ton bomb, move a sufficient distance so as not to be covered by the blast).
Step 2
Change the "Allies" to "Axis Countries" (toggle switch on the right-top), the goal is "Airfields". Select the Bf-109E aircraft of the front-line bomber modification (/ b is added after the model number 4 or 7). We suspend any bombs weighing 250 kg (for example, SC250), but under no circumstances use bombs with the AB designation in any aircraft to use this technique. These are capsule bombs that explode after a certain time with a timer (more than once!) And throw out capsules with napalm, chemicals, or just explosives. We need a high-explosive bomb. By the way, you should put an unlimited supply
Step 3
Newsreel as a training video
In the video materials of this article, I posted a hard-to-find video - an amateur clip about the famous British Special Bomber Squadron, which received the nickname Dumbusters ("Dambreakers"). To people who are not familiar with the specialization of this squadron, I suppose it is not clear what these pilots are up to on the heavy four-engined Lancasters and the high-speed Mosquitoes.
Step 4
The former fly at full speed over the surface of the water and drop some barrels that bounce almost above the plane, the latter do the same with objects that look like tractor tires. Moreover, one "Lancaster" was itself damaged by its "blank", the second was completely torn apart by a "direct hit" of a barrel in the belly and imprinted into the shore right in front of the operator. "Mosquitoes" are successfully loaded with their "wheels" on some ship. This is the tactics of attack "dumbasters".
Step 5
The objects they drop are Wallace's jumping bomb on the Lancaster and its further development - the so-called tolbut on the Mosquito, which, before being dropped, spin up to high speed. Unfortunately, we do not have any special bombs in the game, or mechanisms for spinning up on pylons, but it turns out that this can be repeated here with ordinary bombs.
Step 6
We train on cats
Departure! At the rate of 190, or at two o'clock, or front-right, we see the battleship. We approach it with a climb, then bring the engine to full speed, dive and level ourselves at a height of no more than 30 meters. We continue to descend, heading for the ship. We keep the height no more than 10 meters.
Step 7
Then it all depends on your sixth (or what it is in a row) sense. You should fly directly to the ship, drop bombs at the last moment and avoid colliding with it. At this moment, the speed of the aircraft will be more than five hundred kilometers per hour. Do not overdo it with a maneuver, otherwise you will no longer collide with a piece of Krupp armor or a mast, but with a liquid substance, somewhat more dense than distilled water. This is especially the case for the F4U and Corsair aircraft, which are also ideal for this type of attack, but are prone to stalling.
Step 8
Make sure the bombs hit their targets and sink under the ship. An explosion will occur, which will damage it. Now you can change the plane and hang a more solid bomb, for example, Ju-87 and PC1800, or even more fun - He-111 H-6 and SC2000.
Step 9
The happy owners of the game version 4.10 and higher have the opportunity to repeat the feat of the legendary "dumbbells" on a four-engine Pe-8 or TB-7 bomber (actually the same thing, but the weapons for some reason are different) with a five-ton Soviet "super bomb" or on a couple of new Mosquito models.
Step 10
There is another way to test your skills and nerves - the "Coral Sea" card, the goal is "Airfields", but we are already playing for the allies. We are limited in airplanes, but now our goal is a whole floating airfield - an enemy aircraft carrier! It is much more difficult to get away from a collision with it after dropping the bomb than with a battleship - the high and long deck hinders. It would take more than one thousand-pound American bomb to sink it.
Step 11
To test this tactic in battle, it is enough to select "Anti-aircraft guns" in the menu of the quick editor in defense. Then the target battleships and the aircraft carrier will take revenge on you from all guns!
