What is the pourpose of bomber planes?

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i literally make one dive, and then i die.
I try to remain above 1000 meters when dropping bombs, and i still die
i do not know what kills me

if it is an actual enemy fighter what the heck am i supposed to do?
keep going 40 matches with no tail gunners because the game is doing the best it can to push me to go premium to get things faster?
if it is an AA cannon what can i do instead? try to dodge the bullets with a bomber?
the plane i am talking about is the sb 2m in Moscow

does everybody just dies like me? or am i missing something?

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hard to answer if you dont know whats klling you. Next time you die look at the kill feed

If its a fighter, you have to be watching out for them. cant ignore them. Have to try and gun them down First before you bomb…or just bomb and accept you are on borrowed time

Tail gunners wont help you much if you just let other planes get on your six

AA guns…you are at the mercy of the aa gunner

#note…i just saw you said SB 2m bomber…yup…bomb until you unlocked gunners lol. Or play a different plane to level the squad (I dont even know if you can do that. Is Pe-3 Same squad?)

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i am competitive af and i never stood down to see what killed me…
Next time i will see how it happened

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Are all bombers at the mercy of what happens around them?

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No. Most are armed. the ones that arent are generally pretty manueverable. I just chase fighters in the Ju 188 and laugh as the front gunners kill them lol. (cant say Ive tried it in the SB 2 but I imagine similar results)

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probably won’t go well since the ju-188 is deceptively mannueverable

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does the SB 2m not have the same flight model as warthunder? Turns on a dime there. I just havent tried Enlisted.

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planes in this game also have reduced engine power so it can turn 1 time and lose all of it’s energy

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Very true. Hope it gets boosted at some point

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Its like flying a truck.

Pretty rough plane to fly. Also sighting while bombing is trickier because of the cockpit.

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In WT the SB-2 is extremely maneuverable and can foot it easily with 2nd generation monoplanes like the 109E’s - the 2 x ShKAS front guns are fantastic! :slight_smile:

To answer the OP - the purpose of bombers is to bomb - but lacking bombsights (AFAIK - would be a serious SMH moment to learn otherwise!!) you are guessing, so most people bomb at very low altitude to get some semblance of accuracy.

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Yeah thats what I thought. Its almost a UFO in warthunder haha. can do some funny stuff.

Not meaning the kill cam, Just a quick glance at the kill feed. Gives you info on what you are up against and what you may need to deal with

perfect for competitive players :slight_smile:

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the problem is instead of making the plane better they just kept making the kill zone bigger, i see the icons land 50m away and all but the smallest bombs kill some or all of my soldiers, so i would be up for them boosting bombers if they nerfed the bombs

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Literally all the plane related topics end in this, “nerf bombs” or “farther reload points”.

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if you are using the SB 2, then go slower, if you go too fast the wings pop off and its shit

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Does going too fast really damage the plane?

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yes it does

it starts with flaps, all the way down with entire wings getting cutted of or lose the tail for using the wrong flaps and/or diving at full speed from high attitudes.

early war to mid planes weren’t really durable ( or rather, supposed to ) dive that fast.

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Ok
I figured it out.

Turns out that dive bombing at full throttle isn’t safe for a plane that is almost a strategic bomber…

I didn’t know that this mechanic existed…

I was the one that was destroying my plane all this time.

This is some “spec ops the line” final revelation bullshit to me.

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with bomber planes you can drop bombs
/thread

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the purpose is to be waste of your time and resources. And food for other air players. Most of them are extremely bad compared something like the P-40 with the 250kg bomb