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Way off topic - but is that bomber a LeO 451?

This pic has been on a couple of other forums - no one has gotten it yet, I certainly don't know what it is...

190s had storage in the rear fuselage - used to evacuate personnel on more than one occasion...

Sorry for another off-topic reply, but some Soviet and German fighters were armed with air-to air rockets, but I've never heard of Americans using HVARs as anti-aircraft weapons.

Not WWII, but in Vietnam an A-4 driver used Zunis to bring down a MIG-17...

Is it Planes of Fame's P-47G? Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Registry - A Warbirds Resource Group Site

So that's a yes?

That pic of the jet wing - is that an A-4?

Thanks. In the U.S., 1941 was still pre-war, of course. I'm making something for the old Il-2 game, so trying to do some research.

I was just thinking about the pre-1941 war games in the U.S., and wondering how they actually worked (I was never in the military so I have no idea) Any good sources/pics on this? (I'm looking at you, pampa14) Anything we tried war gaming that was a disaster in real combat, or vice versa...

I was wondering more about the RAF tugs. I guess all armament was removed from the bombers, right? We're Lysanders ever used to tow gliders operationally? I'm thinking they may have towed Hotspurs in training. Soviet tugs - the TB-3? Li-2?

Just a few simple glider tug questions: I guess when using transport aircraft, C-47s or Ju-52s the tugs were flown empty? Or did they carry paratroops? The RAF used Halifaxes, Stirlings, and Albemarles, right? Any other types widely used? USAAF just used C-47s? Did the Navy use R4Ds when...

Almost all Italian fighters of the early war years were radials, with the license built DBs available later, they became inlines, eg MC 200 to 202, G 50 to G 55. Do you think the Italians would have stuck with radials if they had engines of sufficient power? Could they have used the BMW 801...

Stupid question - isn't the armor structural? How can you delete the tub? Use something other than steel?

If you could streamline Japanese aircraft, engine, and armament procurement, so there would be less duplication between Army and Navy, how would you do it? A5M or Ki-27? Ki-44 or J2M? Ki-21 or G3M? Ki-49 or G4M? Or were these aircraft sufficiently different to all be needed? What...