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Reduce air lost form flak - 9/2/2021 6:39:53 PM   
Norm49

 

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Hi,

I was wondering what was the best ways to make air attack. Dose any good documentation exist for this. I am looking for a ways to know form witch altitude attack in different situation so i can gauge air lost vs accuracy.

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RE: Reduce air lost form flak - 9/2/2021 8:47:53 PM   
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It all depends upon the mission and the aircraft involved.

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RE: Reduce air lost form flak - 9/2/2021 10:16:14 PM   
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There is no definitive answer to that question as it is very situational.
Accuracy depends on altitude, weather, night or day, moonlight, crew skill, enemy cap, terrain of the hex, detection level, concentration of troops, fortification level and probably some more variables that I don't know or remember at the moment.
Flak strength depends on how many anti-air devices your enemy has in the hex and also what kind of devices.

If you want to avoid flak entirely, you can look up the anti-air devices, that your enemy likely uses, in the in-game database, every anti-air gun has a maximum ceiling.

But as a a general rule of thumb, if you are loosing a lot of bombers to flak -> fly higher and compensate the reduced accuracy with more bombers.
Often the only way to find out if a base has heavy flak (or flak at all) is to probe it with an attack.
Knowing the gun ceilings can help you a lot in deciding which altitude to use, let's say your enemy has two types of guns at his disposal:
A Light AA gun with a ceiling of 8000 feet and a heavy AA gun with a ceiling of 12000 feet. (The numbers are fictional)
Now, if you encounter heavy flak during a bombing mission, first try to bomb again at 9000 feet and see if flak is still heavy.
If not, your enemy only has light AA guns at the hex and you can safely bomb him from 9000 feet.
If you still suffer flak losses, your enemy has heavy AA guns at the hex and you need to go to 13000 feet to avoid them.

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RE: Reduce air lost form flak - 9/10/2021 7:00:30 AM   
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Check your Weather Report. If weather report is Rain or Thunderstorms over the area you want to bomb, you are almost 100% guaranteed that your bombing raid will produce stragglers (3-5 bombers )coming after your main raid. Then your stragglers will take heavy losses even from a small number of flak guns. If an enemy base has i.e. 15 flak guns, and you have 30 bombers, then 15 guns vs 30 bombers will produce no losses for bombers. However, if your bombing raid will arrive as 25 bombers and 5 stragglers, now 5 stragglers will face 15 guns, which will result in i.e 1 bomber destroyed and 1 damaged. To ensure that bombers arrive as one big packet, fly bombing raids in Clear and Partly Cloudy weather and stand them down in Rain/Thunderstorms weather.

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RE: Reduce air lost form flak - 9/11/2021 12:50:37 AM   
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Check the aircrafts fatigue level.

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RE: Reduce air lost form flak - 9/11/2021 6:23:07 PM   
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Check the aircrafts fatigue level.

And pilot fatigue and morale.

The Air War is a game unto itself, and for every move the enemy makes there is a countermove that you can make. Much is about using your assets wisely, not over-using them (which creates ops losses) and using your training program to develop the best pilots you can.

It is worth reading the Air Mission Coordination Guide stickied on this sub-forum.

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