How many kg of bombs do you need to blow up a base?

[MacaroniBurger]

I looked it up on google and found that in RB it is a constant 1,500kg, but I tested it out in rb for myself. I used 3 250kg bombs and took out more than half of the base's hp. The charts I saw said you needed 8 250kg bombs. Has this changed and is now more like AB where the amount depends on br?

[Sketchy]

It takes a total of 1.5 tons of explosives to destroy one base in RB, you can see that if you look at the score board when you destroy a base by yourself. It might be 1 ton at lower brs as well. 6x250kg should kill a base by my quick calculations of 250kg x 2.2LB = 550LB and you'll need 3000LB so 5x250kg is not quite enough.

[MacaroniBurger]

Originally posted by Pencil Sketch:

It takes a total of 1.5 tons of explosives to destroy one base in RB, you can see that if you look at the score board when you destroy a base by yourself. It might be 1 ton at lower brs as well. 6x250kg should kill a base by my quick calculations of 250kg x 2.2LB = 550LB and you'll need 3000LB so 5x250kg is not quite enough.

I just tested it. I killed a base in RB with 5x 250kg bombs.

[StingerRPG]

Didn't I answered you that days ago?

Originally posted by StingerRPG:

Originally posted by MacaroniBurger:

how much kg does a base need to die? Like those bases that you have to destroy before their airfield.

BR dependant. My PE:
Low tiers(1.0-2.0): 0.75t
Low-Med(2.0-3.7): 1t
Medium(4.0-5.0): 1.25t
High(5.3-9.0): 1.5t
Very unsure of the BR spread. But it's vague enough. Most bombers at BR will usually destroy a single base, at least(Except for low tiers. Only the Hampden has 4 1000lbs, able to take out 2 bases in a single run(?)).
Source: US bomber main

[MacaroniBurger]

Originally posted by StingerRPG:

Didn't I answered you that days ago?

Originally posted by StingerRPG:

BR dependant. My PE:
Low tiers(1.0-2.0): 0.75t
Low-Med(2.0-3.7): 1t
Medium(4.0-5.0): 1.25t
High(5.3-9.0): 1.5t
Very unsure of the BR spread. But it's vague enough. Most bombers at BR will usually destroy a single base, at least(Except for low tiers. Only the Hampden has 4 1000lbs, able to take out 2 bases in a single run(?)).
Source: US bomber main

Didn't see it.

[Eftwyrd]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Px6G3kvcWbiS-sdIR6r4s7lSwfcxguUgJw95qj0NIzs/edit#gid=0

[ZXPHYR]

why the hell i war thunder doesn't 8 250kg bombs kill a low tier base in rb?

[Jester]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

why the hell i war thunder doesn't 8 250kg bombs kill a low tier base in rb?

simple, its 675kg of TNT, not 675kg of bombs.

[R.A.T. Army *MST3K*]

It's more about the explosive mass than it is about the bomb size. Roughly 600 kg will kill a base. That's 1323 lbs.

[seejcrane]

I dropped 2 1000lb bombs on a base in RB and it did not kill the base. I tracked the bombs flight and they both hit. However, sometimes I kill a base with 12 100lb bombs. Why is it so inconsistent? I am using the last teir 2 bomber in the american tech tree.

[Eftwyrd]

Originally posted by seejcrane:

I dropped 2 1000lb bombs on a base in RB and it did not kill the base. I tracked the bombs flight and they both hit. However, sometimes I kill a base with 12 100lb bombs. Why is it so inconsistent? I am using the last teir 2 bomber in the american tech tree.

what matters is not the bombs total weight but the explosive weight those bombs contain, the thick metal casing isnt helping you atall

[PanzerParty65]

Originally posted by Jester:

Originally posted by Zephyr:

why the hell i war thunder doesn't 8 250kg bombs kill a low tier base in rb?

simple, its 675kg of TNT, not 675kg of bombs.

I've tried my very hardest to come to an end about this, but I can't seem to find any reliable source.8 250kg bombs are far, far more than 600kg of TNT. Soviet bombs are 960. German bombs arrive at 1 ton. Japanese bombs are 832kg of pure TNT blast. It makes no sense. They should do almost twice the damage needed, not just make the kill. Plus, I have memories of killing 2 bases in 1 run with the He-111-H6 with the 8x250kg loadout, 4 per base.

Also, according to the chart that Gaijin pinned in the official WT forum, the 250kg bomb has 125kg of TNT. The 1000 bomb has 600. You need exactly 1 1000kg bomb to kill 1 base (I tested this over and over again in the VERY recent past, as I built grinded all my bombers in the last month. Yet, Gaijin claims you need "6.355932203" 250kg bombs to kill 1 base. Nonsense.

600 TNT kg x 1 bomb = Base killed.
125 TNT kg x 5 bombs = 650 TNT kg. More than the 1 ton bomb. Yet, as Gaijin claims:

125 TNT kg x 6.355932203 bombs = 794.4915253 = Base overkilled, it seems.

What is it then? Do you need 5, 6, 6.355932203, 1000, 250kg bombs? And in pounds, how much is it?

In good God's name, please, make this clear. Also, please fix that chart (here's the link: https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/318971-base-bombing-chart/) or at least specify WHY your maths seems to be wrong.

Thanks for listening.

Source: A pretty confused german and US main bomber.

[Nenne.]

in my experience. players say that they landed 8x 250kg bombs on base and it didnt destroy.
but sometimes when they check out replay it turns out that the last 2 or 3 actually missed..

they just passed over target to fast and thought they hit...

drop a single 2000kg bomb on base and it should destroy..

[ErickaUnlimited]

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