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Maximum Flak Ceilings - 2/1/2015 12:02:50 AM

nedcorleone1

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With the ability to custom-tune the altitude at which your aircraft fly and engage at, it would be nice to know what the maximum flak ceilings are for each type. For instance, there is the feared 128mm Twin AA gun at the Zoo tower in Berlin. Unfortunately no information is given as to its effective and/or maximum ceiling. Wikipedia indicates that the maximum ceiling for this piece is only 14,800m, much lower than what the heavy bombers can fly at. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12.8_cm_FlaK_40) Is this type of thing directly modeled in game?

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RE: Maximum Flak Ceilings - 2/1/2015 12:40:23 AM

Nico165b165

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Not sure if you can see it in the game, but it's possible in the editor.

Open the editor, select "load generic data", go to the device tab and you have a list of every device with every information, including max and effective ceiling.

How it works in game (manual 17.2.2) :

quote:

Anti-aircraft guns have two range bands, effective
ceiling and maximum ceiling, which is generally 1.4
times the effective ceiling. fire is allowed up to the
maximum ceiling, but any fire above the effective
ceiling will be considerably weaker.

Pay attention not to confuse feet and meters. Your 14.800m max ceiling translate into 50.000 feet max ceiling for the flak 40 (and 40.000 effective ceiling), and that's much higher than what the heavy bombers can fly at.

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RE: Maximum Flak Ceilings - 2/1/2015 12:42:20 AM

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Effective ceiling is 40,000 feet
Maximum ceiling is 50,000 feet

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RE: Maximum Flak Ceilings - 2/1/2015 12:47:45 AM

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I can't remember any WW2 bomber capable of flying higher than this, not even higher than the effective range (if loaded with bombs).
You may be confusing meters with feet, gun is specified for 40k feet effective ceiling and 50k feet maximum ceiling. The range of 11700 is horizontal firing vs ground targets.

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RE: Maximum Flak Ceilings - 2/1/2015 3:55:05 PM

nedcorleone1

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I was under the impression that the altitudes in game were in units of meters. Apparently I was wrong.

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RE: Maximum Flak Ceilings - 2/1/2015 8:17:21 PM

nedcorleone1

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Just made a nice discovery... flak ceilings are listed for each AA type in the Commander's Report under "Equipment -> Weapons".