Eggstor
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Cluster bomb damage mechanics seem to be rather glitched. I created a small scenario to test the CBU-59/B APAM (717 dual-purpose bomblets totaling 358.5 DP) against various targets. The results are, shall we say, interesting.
The attached scenario is best viewed from Side B, which is the recepient of various APAM strikes.
There are two basic cases - targets with no damage points and targets with damage points. The APAM airbursts against a target with no damage points, and inflicts a varying amount of damage to its components. Mostly, the damage is between 0.7 DP and 1.0 DP, with 1.0 DP destroying that component. However, at random, it will inflict a lot more damage to a single component.
The APAM directly strikes a target with damage points, and inflicts a fixed, rather low, amount of damage apparently based on the target size.
Whether the APAM airbursts or directly strikes a main target does not affect the damage done to any nearby targets. Nearby targets with no damage points follow the multiple components/variable DP damage model, while nearby targets with damage points follow the fixed based-on-size damage model.
Other cluster munitions appear to follow this same model, including the JSOW-A (BLU-97 variant). Of note, the JSOW does not trigger an airburst over target message, and despite having bomblets with just over 3 times the explosive, appears to render the same amount of damage as the APAM.
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