Recent content by tonycat77

Maybe so, but the kriegsmarine never got the funding nor the political backing it needed. The Luftwaffe seriously curtailed their plans for ju-290s, fw 200 only became a patrol aircraft because the ijn had ordered before the war and they got pressed into service, etc. The carrier air wing was...

You'd need the german navy to have a lot more prestige, they were always the 3rd rate force, even though Churchill was irrationally terrified of them and the damaged, unfueld Tirpitz still convinced the brass into stucking the majority of the carrier and battleship force in the north atlantic...

I wonder what kind of missile was used, i thought being hit with a 137 lb warhead was a instantaneous death sentence.

I'm playing IL-2 1946 (haven't managed to set up the controls or the time to figure it out on cliffs of dover and battle of stalingrad) with the newest patch, and the AI is extremely frustratingly good now. They do all sorts of defensive BFM, hard power stall turns with full rudder, boom and...

Couldn't they add the DB supercharger system?

A detuned version for tank production, by 1940 would be nice, Germany would get a 500-600hp class engine with similar size to the v2-34 which was derived from 1920s German aerial engine development anyway, send damaged or worn out engines to a Maybach plant to make them into a German meteor engine.

I'd avoid buying Samsung stuff ever again. In the past 3 years: My mom's washer died a couple months after the 2 year warranty My parents 4k tv died and there was no possibility of repair, again after only 2-3 years of use My phone started having green lines, I'm typing this with 40% of the...

It's strange to me how the griffon spitfires aren't in vogue in modern conscience, 90% of flight sims go to the mk 9 at the most or the tempest mk5 for the RAF 1944-45 fighter. Books, films, where is the last time you saw people who aren't WW2 enthusiasts talking about it? Seems there's more...

In my opinion by 1945 Axis: N1K2 for Japan TA-152H for germany Allies Tempest MK-V in ETO P-51D PTO Navy F4U-4 URSS LA-7

i'd fly the corsair for ground attack, the xp-72 for a long range escort mission and the spiteful for the kind of air superiority missions that were in vogue in holland/north germany by late 1944-45

It's kinda cute, would fit in a cartoon or ghibli film.

Also, I'd imagine the horizontal profile of a b-17 isn't much larger than a 2 engine bomber which had success in the axis (ju-88, g4m) bonus points for a better sighting system for gyroscopes in the b-17, they could launch 4 torpedos per plane easily several thousand yards away, much safer than...

We got acoustic guided torpedos by the end of WW2, imagine a fleet of b-17s dropping 4 each from altitude or something and they used a drogue chute, like what happens with modern asw aircraft. They were too slow to hit any real warship, but they would easily break a formation in a convoy.

Can we stop and appreciate that only the US could pick and choose what frontline fighter to adopt for carrier or land use? :sunglasses:

i feel like a 4 engine do-217 variant would end up being a better plane than the he-177. Or get Me-264's wings on a he-177 fuselage, germany had tons of spare jumo-211s by 1945, they certainly could be built. Use them on the eastern front mainly, don't waste them on baby blitzes, give hitler the...