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Even at the lowest altitude, fighters do not strafe airfields with their cannons or MGs.

I am pretty sure this was a thing based on my readings.

EDIT: Possibly this should be expanded out to all Ground Attack.

Fighters were even doing strafing on marching columns and the like.

But I think it will require more coding effort than what is the benefit to have added feature.
Many fighter (bombers) have option to fly a bombing mission with some small bomb. That can work as 'strafing' pretty much.

Hardradi wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:49 am Even at the lowest altitude, fighters do not strafe airfields with their cannons or MGs.

Escort/Fighter missions seem to NEVER ever attack anything on ground.

Setting FBs to FB-B mission and setting their Loadout to "NONE" to represent their possible "Fighter-Mission-Strafe-Potential" I got the following results, it's T2 in GC (so no T1 buffs/debuffs), after this I moved more Soviet bombers in that area and re-tried in T3, then New Scenario on T1, same results.

AlbertN wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:42 pm Fighters were even doing strafing on marching columns and the like.

Setting similar mission with Groundattack-UNIT results in like 24 FB-B's (again with no bombs) disrupting ~4-12 elements while damaging and destroying none, not even a single vehicle whatsoever. Additional some of this missions will be changed to "Interdict" adding +0 interdiction (since this relies on the damage of the guns), making their use in the scenario of interdiction missions (without bombs) not possible.

AlbertN wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:42 pm But I think it will require more coding effort than what is the benefit to have added feature.
Many fighter (bombers) have option to fly a bombing mission with some small bomb. That can work as 'strafing' pretty much.

I feel more like the damage system A2G is screwed, there is such a high treshold to DMG/DES something on the ground that you barely can kill anything by using 50kg bombs and therefore MG/Autocanons won't have a easier life doing something substantial too. Not to speak about the wrong penetration values on aircraft cannons.

The system either needs a buff to damage in A2G or some random luck-shot-mechanic to account for at least some stuff being lost/damaged by those guys on the ground being stafed at.