They should add them to planes without a bomb payload, like the Corsair, or planes with a light bomb load, like the P-51 C. They would be ineffective, but at least they would be used rather than sitting on an event plane.
The Soviets also had their own incendiary bombs and put them on Il 2 Sturmoviks in the battle for Kursk. They apparently were successful against tanks. Here is an article on it:
AZh-2 and AZh-4 Aviation Incendiary Ampoules | Armies and Soldiers - Military Encyclopedia (page 0)
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We need Napalm to serve some sort of a purpose other than base bombing,
Why not every weapon has to be able to hurt/destroy everything my rifle cam noy kill a tank. i have no problem with a direct hit incendiary device doing damage or even destroying a tank but the kind of splash damage a fuel bomb and the area it could cover would be crazy to let it damage or set a tank on fire.
i do not want a bomb’s hitting tens of units from my tank and either setting it on fire or destroying my engine or tracks or killing the crew. The problem is simple everything must have some chance of destroying or evading or somehow countering every other weapon. A tank already cannot evade bombs or rockets, take hits from them or evade them.
so fine if a fuel bomb can hit and i mean make contact with the hull of one. i do not mean close enough to splash napalm onto it. again fuel air bombs are like shotguns, shotguns should not kill tanks. if you put a slug into the shotgun and not buckshot and hit the tank well that is a cat of another color.
During the Great Patriotic War, in Soviet assault aviation, along with incendiary bombs, AZh-2 incendiary ampoules in tin cases, equipped with a self-igniting sticky combustible mixture KS, were widely used. The ampoule was a thin-walled metal spherical vessel with a hole for filling the mixture, which was hermetically sealed at the factory with a tightly screwed plug with a gasket.
Getting on combat vehicles, the KS liquid stuck to the armor or plastered observation slits, glass, observation devices, blinded the crew with smoke and burned everything inside.
one this sounds far more effective than what we have in game, second it sounds optimistic like historians that claim the T34 as nearly indestructible to early German tanks even when many were destroyed by 35 and 50 mm cannons, i am not saying it could not nor did not happen i just feel it was as much by luck as skill, so a random chance of a tank taking damage to component, or crew when splashed by a fuel tank bomb is not out of the question how random is in the air.
Yes, fuel air bombs may not kill a tank. It will kill the crew though.
The in game drop tanks are almost completely useless. To have a useless feature on a premium vehicle is counter productive to selling them. A buff would help darkflow get paid and give the buyer something useful and fun.
same thing in enlisted, same answer on direct or near direct hit only