The A5M4 has(that what i understand while studying the game model) place to store bombs but for some strange reason they dont exist. And the fact the the plane that the Americans get in the same level has bombs makes this plane bad in comparison(in my opinion)
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Hopefuilly they just add aircraft loadouts for every plane. Blanket solution
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afik, two 30 kg bombs was posable irl.
The problem is War Thunder does not equipe them with them.
AFIK, non of the planes we have in game atm, have a bombload option that does not exist in war thunder , but I am not 100% certain on that.
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believe its 2 60kg bombs.
According to my references it only ever had the option for two 30 kg bombs but I don’t know of any record of them having used that option operationally. (Not that the game cares about that kind of thing)
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ok so japan did have 30kg bombs, however i believe they are practice bombs that were later adopted to war usage.
for anti air and anti shipping usage and maybe ground. yes you read that right, japan made an anti air BOMB
however ive never seen a zero depicted with 30kg bombs. let alone just two of them
30kg bomb (三番通常爆弾二型 / No 3 ordinally bomb Model 2) is not a practice bomb, just old outdated bomb.
Production was ended in 1942.
For example, according to this combat report, they equipped two this bomb on A5M to bomb Chinese riverside positions in January 1941.
https://www.jacar.archives.go.jp/das/image/C14120712200
Illustration of No.3 ordinally bomb Model 2
Roughly shape is similar to old 60kg bomb (No.6 ordinally bomb).
http://navgunschl.sblo.jp/category/682337-1.html
I guess in this game it is not exist because it is old and useless weapon.
I think it’s more that war thunder has not modeled it.
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Yes, but reason why its not exist in War Thunder will be its old and useless.