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Airport control tower too vulnerable to small explosions
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Description

Airport control tower can be destroyed too easily with small explosives that in real life rely on shrapnel to do damage.

Airport control towers can be destroyed to the state that the top floor collapses with

  1. 10 hand grenades thrown in through the bottom floor door
  2. 10 rifle grenades (40 mm rifle grenades) fired at the building wall from the outside
  3. 10 20 mm cannon grenades from AH99 helicopter fired at the building

None of the above grenades have the explosive power to make that kind of structual damage that will bring down reinforced concrete buildings. And the tower is made of reinforced concrete, you can see it easily from the destroyed model.

Details

Severity
Feature
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Operating System Version
1.84
Category
Game Physics
Steps To Reproduce

place applicable units in editor and try it.

Event Timeline

Problem still persists in 1.86 release candidate version. And after more checking the same thing happens with solar power plant towers. And after trying it again in editor you only need 8 hand grenades or rifle grenades to bring down either of these towers. And now I realize that there is nowadays different types of control towers, so to be clear, I mean concrete towers like in Altis international or Stratis airfield.

Just to be clear. The problem is that those grenades do not have enough explosive material to do structural damage to reinforced concrete. If memory serves me correctly, the amount of explosive material in a hand grenade is around 60 grams. The reason for it's lethality is fragmentation, not shock wave.