@Scoop, you just landed in somebodys weed farm…!
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After leaving Eastern I did have an offer to fly crop dusters in Columbia doing recreational crops with nasty fatal chemicals. I was given a choice of the west or east coast beach’s to live on and assured a company of infantry to secure the sites before spraying.
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Felicity is good at getting me interesting aviation jobs. I like to think it was the thought of living on a Caribbean or Pacific Beach rather than the insurance money. When I asked how often the crop dusters came back with holes in I was told “not too often and the pilot health policy is very good”.
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It is those wires they stretch between the ridges ya’ have to watch out for… Mmm…no thanks…
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Can you fit helicopter cable cutters to air-tractors? Lol 
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A few more shots of the Eagle with RoughMet and weathered textures.
Here I tried to add a realistic flame exhaust to the AMRAAM.
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Wow! That looks real! Gunna have to share that love 
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Some Combined Arms gameplay.
Huey Multicrew - from Fight Club - Leaning out the door!
Febraury 5th: Hollo Pointe North: Trivial Perplexion - Flight Night
JDAM Strike on Aleppo - weapons hit their marks.
Flying back to Incirlik to refuel and rearm.
_Kuweires - A quick TOO via TGP JDAM strike for the tower misses due to LOS offset.
Tower survives adjacent building hit by 2,000lb GBU-31V3/B. Nice destruction model on this building.
This playthrough included multiple sorties and a coordinated effort over about 5 hours between:
Myself: F/A-18C, Strike;
@USMCBEANS: AV-8B, Strike;
@AndyE: A-10C II, Strike;
@Sryan: F-16C, S/DEAD;
@whareagle: F-16C, S/DEAD;
@Franze: F-15C, Fighter Sweep / CAP.
Not too many screenshots however, we were all quite busy!
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Honestly I never witnessed a Ton of hi-explosive going off in urban areas but the damage in that Pic seems a bit… Limited?
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It’s the bunker buster variant of that weapon. With a BLU-109 if I am not mistaken. That’s the reason why the splash damage was so low probably.
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I really wish they would get combined arms working in VR … it would be awsome 
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Trust me. In the real world the tower is trashed.
Make sense…
Yes, indeed.
I would think so, but I dropped another between a pair of MiG-23’s on the pad of Kuweires later and they were both vaporized. All bombs have impact fuzes presently and it seems the BLU109 is marked as a penetrator (as is the AGM-65E) and they can singly destroy the ammo bunkers / comms centers. Other bombs require multiple hits. However, outside of this there is no noticeable difference. The delayed fuzes on other bombs doesn’t appear to work presently - they all detonate on impact.
Even non-VR could really use an update. It has a lot of potential although the maps also would need some refinement in the terrain mesh - where things get very angular, they should be smoothed out some, even a few more “steps” to the angles would make it work OK. (Think driving up a triangle vs. an octagon.)
Yea, too bad not in DCS. A K/O’d tower disables the airfield as the AI can’t get ATC.
I wished it was more true. If the bomb was detonating below ground / inside the building and you could claim that contained the blast enough to not overly damage the adjacent buildings…now I am not sure even if in that case it would be sufficient no not knock down adjacent buildings. Guess we’d have to go over some historical samples.
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The fuse delays on the Harrier work. I don’t know why the Harrier gets this and other jets that drop the same family of bombs don’t.
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I think they may still work with the iron bombs on the Hornet, I have used it before. However, no effect with LGB’s and the JDAM’s only have the instant EFUZ option.
As they have developed the weapons they have created inconsistencies. Hopefully those get back on the to-do list at some point.
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There is a reason EOD operators have a long lonely walk to reach devices. The blast area is huge. 300m is the minimum distance for exposed personnel round a small ied. All glass would be destroyed, doors and windows blown in. Soft furnishings on fire Structural damage from larger devices. With a military bomb adjacent buildings would almost certainly be destroyed as well, although from a distance the structure may remain standing.
1996 London Docklands. 3,000lbs of low grade home made explosive. Less than a 20th of the effect of a military explosive
The photo below was estimated at just five pounds of home made explosive attached to four jerry cans of home made napalm placed on the pavement outside the restaurant… 12 dead 30 severe injuries.
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Ugh those were some bad times. Glad that situation is mostly sorted nowadays.
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