air strike issue

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Originally Posted by carp

Hey, gents, thanks. But I am on another machine and I have set the ammo limit to "on" but yet in scenario 9 the Rhodesian Canberras just keep dropping cluster bombs, sometimes 20 or more.

Is unlimited ammo the only thing I should be monitoring?

Thanks again,

carp

Ya know....... if you'd mentioned the country or the scenario in the first place we could have answered the question right away instead of " My aircraft all seem to be Arc-Light capable"

Those Rhodesian Canberra's are loaded with twenty four 80 Kg ( 176 pound ) "golf" bombs in four sets so you are going to get 4 bombs per hex for 8 hexes.

Now....... *technically" you may have uncovered a problem because the info I have on the mini golf bombs were only used on the Cessna 337( there were two types of golf bombs just as there are two in the OOB's ... a 450 KG version and a 80 Kg version )

The 450kg version was designed for use by the Hawker Hunter FGA9. A smaller version nicknamed 'Mini Golf'
was introduced later to give light propeller driven aircraft a huge punch off a low level attack profile.
As it happened only the Reims-Cessna F337, converted by Rhodesia for armed use, employed the Mini Golf.

full text HERE

that, of course , is only one source and may be in error but if it's not those Canberra's should probably be carrying conventional bombs and given the weapons didn't enter service until March 1977 the in service date for the Cessna F337 using the bombs needs to be change as does the start date for the Hunter FGA Mk.9 carrying the 450 KG version

Don