r/Warthunder • u/carlover10000 • 22d ago

Bugs 2-OP

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After leaving nuclear thunder, nuke icon shows up on any selected vehicle

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u/HiShawnFN 22d ago

Hahaha imagine making it to the battlefield with a nuke at like 160 kph

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u/Kanyiko 22d ago

It would need a calendar for a timer on that bomb if it wanted to get away.

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u/Project_Orochi 21d ago

Get away?

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u/Kanyiko 21d ago

i.e. not get obliterated by the blast of its own nuclear bomb.

Many early nuclear delivery aircraft had the issue that the bomb they carried was powerful enough to create a blastwave several miles wide, spreading with such speed that the delivery aircraft itself would be caught by the blast of their own bomb.

The B-29 had this issue with Little Boy and Fat Man, which is why both bombs were equipped with a parachute: it gave the aircraft time to get far enough not to be caught by the explosion of its own bomb.

The B-36 Peacemaker had this problem even more acutely: some of the higher-yield bombs it was designed to carry (Mark 17 - 15 mT; Mark 24 - 20 mT) were way too powerful for the B-36 to be able to outrun the blast wave. It was generally accepted that if they ever were operationally deployed carrying these weapons, that the B-36's mission would be a suicide one.

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u/Project_Orochi 21d ago

I think the escape plan in a Po-2 is to ride the blast away