Mosquito - Request 30-second Bomb Fuses

[Talisman]

Request developers provide up to 30-second timed bomb fuses for the upcoming Mosquito for historical accuracy.

 

This is a very informative book: Royal Air Force 1939-1945 Vol III The Fight Is Won by Hilary St.George Saunders: Good (1954) | World of Rare Books (abebooks.co.uk)

 

Published by Her Majesty's Stationary Office in 1954, it gives some great information, including Mosquito timed bomb delay fuses for missions including 10 and 11-second delay and also 30-second delay fused bombs. 

 

Page 150 explains how for some targets "preliminary tests with instantaneously fused bombs dropped from a height of 2,000 ft gave no results.  It proved necessary , therefore, to descend to tree-top level and throw the bomb into the main building..."

 

Page 151 explains how eight to ten Mosquito aircraft attacked targets "flying in pairs, the first armed with 30-second delay fused bombs, the remainder with 10 second."

 

Therefore, I certainly suggest that we need the ability to adjust our Mosquito bomb delay timed fuses from zero to at least 30-seconds.

 

Happy landings,

 

Talisman

 

P.S.  Volumes I and II of the above book are also a very good read.

Edited January 27, 2021 by ACG_Talisman

[[DBS]Browning]

The Germans and Americans both had bomb fuses that could extend into hours, days or even weeks.

An explosion causes chaos for minutes and may put a factory out of action until it is repaired, but a timer-bomb buried 8ft under causes disruption for an indefinite amount of time.

 

Back in IL-2 1946, on servers that allowed vulching, some employed a particularly nasty tactic of bombing a spawn zone with many bombs with timers set 10 seconds apart so that those killed by the first bomb might respawn several times only to be killed again and again by delayed explosions.