Selecting which bomb to drop

I use the SBD-3 bomber which has 2x 100lb and 1x 1000lb bombs.
Obviously the big one is for tanks and the small ones for infantry.
But it’s not possible to select which bomb I want to drop first.
So when I want to bomb a tank, I also have to drop the small ones.
This is not efficient.
I want to drop the big one only on the tank and save the small ones for another flyby.
Or the other way around of course, first the small ones on infantry if there is no tank around, and save the big one for another flyby.

In short: please let me select which bomb I want to drop.

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That would be nice yes, it would also be nice if we could select the ability to drop just one bomb at a time, on the 110 it would be nice to be able to drop one at a time and not have to always drop both of them at the same time, or to be able to sell them one at a time on the BA 88, exc… for any central line or internal ordinance this would make sense, wing mounted bombs I think we need to be dropped at the same time however.

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I think you sort of can, they don’t both drop at once. I believe the lighter ones drop first and the heavier second. So whilst you may not be able to control the drop order, knowing that you can attack the inf tgt first and then do another pass for the tanks.

I think you need a plane with a multi bomb load though, like the Stuka with the 4 x 50 and 1x 250 kg loadout on Moscow or the FW D-12 on Berlin by way of an example.

True, but that’s just not good enough.
When I spot a tank and infantry I will most likely want to take out the tank first.
But the small bombs drop before the big one so they go to waste on the tank.

Understood, but that’s just a situational conundrum, the infantry is more agile and will be more likely to move on first, so chances are if you’re in a position to attack them you should.
The tanks are much slower to change position and so you will almost always have time for a second pass particularly as bombs are not guaranteed to kill it on the first pass anyway.

Once I learnt the limitation, I now work around it, and it doesn’t bother me.

I think the issue is the rush mentality that’s so prevalent in the playerbase.