Whats the difference between 500lbs MC and 500lbs GP bombs?

[Kayos]

What is the difference between the 500lbs MC and GP bombs?

[Diesel_Thunder]

The Medium Capacity bombs essentially had thinner cases and more explosive filler than the General Purpose ones. Made a bigger boom at the expense of less shrapnel from the thinner case. 
 

The High Capacity bombs had even thinner cases and more explosives. Not sure if we’ll get those ones.

[Kayos]

Thanks!

[epoch]

Interesting document here (unclassified, from 1944) regarding all the different bombs we Brits used in WW2.  From what I can understand from a brief skim of that doc is seems GP bombs were largely superseded by MC, but I may be wrong there.  Lots of other interesting documents on that Wordpress site too.

[Gunfreak]

On 9/19/2021 at 1:33 AM, Diesel_Thunder said:

The Medium Capacity bombs essentially had thinner cases and more explosive filler than the General Purpose ones. Made a bigger boom at the expense of less shrapnel from the thinner case. 
 

The High Capacity bombs had even thinner cases and more explosives. Not sure if we’ll get those ones.

Does shrapnel have a realistic effect?

I know fragmentation isn't implemented (hence cannons are useless against infantry unless you get a direct hit) is the same true of bombs?

[Diesel_Thunder]

Not sure if there is a shrapnel effect in DCS or not. I imagine that the blast radius is different between the two bombs, but don’t know for sure. 
 

In real life shrapnel was a big part of a bombs lethality in general use. It also gave strength to the bomb at impact so it would stay intact long enough to detonate. You don’t want it to rupture and splatter itself apart prior to detonation (like a watermelon), and that is a risk when using thinner cases. The trade off was a larger blast radius and shock wave which worked well against softer targets (wood structures, unarmored vehicles, etc).