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    Rearming Blenheims

    When the Blenheim is done rearming bombs, the master arm - off message comes up and you hear the switch.

    The Blenheim doesn't have a Bombs Armed command, so you cannot rearm the bombs.

    This isn't a problem for the hurricane or Axis bombers, since they have Master Arm switches.

    Guns rearm fine.

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    Re: Rearming Blenheims

    Make this switch functional?



    Alias, since arm bombs is required for other bombers, why Blenheim (or any other) should be different?

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    Re: Rearming Blenheims

    We'll look into adding an arming switch to Blenheims... if that is historically accurate.

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    Re: Rearming Blenheims

    Yes, it looks like if you R&R with a Blenheim, the bombs load and drop, but they don't explode.

    Trying the normal "Toggle Bombs Armed" button I have set up doesn't do anything.

    So it looks like R&R doesn't work for Blenheims for now. Is that true?

    (We can warn people about it, at least, if so--or disable Blenheim R&R in our servers.)

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    Re: Rearming Blenheims

    Quote Originally Posted by TWC_Flug View Post
    Yes, it looks like if you R&R with a Blenheim, the bombs load and drop, but they don't explode.

    Trying the normal "Toggle Bombs Armed" button I have set up doesn't do anything.

    So it looks like R&R doesn't work for Blenheims for now. Is that true?

    (We can warn people about it, at least, if so--or disable Blenheim R&R in our servers.)
    This must have happened to me during a recent return sortie in a Blenheim after R&R. I thought I had hit the target but saw no explosion or notice of % damage. I assumed I must have missed the target. To complete a wasted trip I was then shot down by flak . Doh!

    Vickers Wellington Mk1c. OJ-F P2517 'F for Freddie' of No.149 Squadron, star of 'Target for Tonight' directed by Harry Watt released in July 1941.

    Freddy prepares for an air test prior to departure from Ford on ops with No.149 Squadron for a daring daylight attack on Marshalling Yards in Caen France 31\1|21. ATAG Operation Milk Run. Target destroyed. Six Wellingtons, One Blenheim together with
    their Spitfire escort returned safely. One Wellington crashed on landing at Ford.

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    Re: Rearming Blenheims

    Quote Originally Posted by TWC_Flug View Post
    Yes, it looks like if you R&R with a Blenheim, the bombs load and drop, but they don't explode.

    Trying the normal "Toggle Bombs Armed" button I have set up doesn't do anything.

    So it looks like R&R doesn't work for Blenheims for now. Is that true?

    (We can warn people about it, at least, if so--or disable Blenheim R&R in our servers.)
    True, Flug.

    Master Arm switches after reload. Since this key is disabled, you can’t rearm.

    Bombs reload, but won’t detonate.
    Last edited by DRock; Jan-24-2020 at 09:53.

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    Re: Rearming Blenheims

    Now I tried R&R in a JU-88, and still no bombs explode after R&R. The 88 has a re-arm button and I pressed it (and in fact tried turning it on and off a few times, which seemed to work OK).

    Was this just some strange one-off thing? Maybe there is a different 'arm bombs' switch or key combo I need to use instead? Has anyone else gotten bombs to explode after R&R in a large bomber like Blenheim, JU-88, HE111?

    Thanks for any advice!

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