Section Leaders:
Fionn Kelly & Madmatt

Air Attack
Fighter-Bombers and Combat Mission

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Pictures in this sequence taken from custom scenario's created solely for this feature.

A beautiful shot (if I don't say so myself!) as four rockets arc out of the sky into the German convoy below.  A German half-track lets loose with a some anti-air MG fire and the tracer can be seen heading upward past the rocket exhaust trails.  Too little and much too late...

I took this shot to give you an idea of the size of the bomb shock waves.  Before this blast completely dissipated it grew in size to completely envelop the pine tree near the bottom of the shot.

There have been many questions posed since this feature began but nobody has asked if more than one plane will attack at the same time.  This shot clearly shows two bursts of MG tracer fire coming from two different planes!

A close up of the shot above focusing on the shadow of one plane as it passes under the tracers of another strafing plane.  There are a couple of new vehicles in that gaggle to spot for you eagle eye observers out there!

A German armored car wishes it were anywhere but in front of this blast.  His wish did not come true... Just like any other explosion in Combat Mission,  rockets and bombs will kill light skinned vehicles even when they do not hit them dead on.

These final two shots display just how hectic these air attacks can become.  They span just two seconds of actual game time!

Here we see as one fighter-bombers bomb explodes destroying a Sd Kfz 7/1 that was unfortunate enough to be within the blast radius.  The second bomb hasn't impacted yet but you can see the shadow of the 'Jabo' just above the blast cone.  Also coming in are a salvo of rockets, fired from a second plane,  heading toward the area around the white stone building in the center.

Less than two seconds later the last of the rockets ripple the ground and a third fighter-bomber releases two more bombs heading for the same area of road!  I have highlighted the bombs and plane shadows for better spotting!  The crater formed by the previous bombs are also visible inside the exploding rockets shock wave.