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Very cool. Were they trying to emulate the Stuka's siren and its terrorizing of the men below?Not sure if many have seen the "soup plate siren" attached to at least one of the Wirraway airframes... The above image came from a wartime Japanese aviation magazine. Basically, it's a standard air raid siren with fins attached so it would spin in the airstream.
Very cool. Were they trying to emulate the Stuka's siren and its terrorizing of the men below?
Were sirens a common thing on naval dive bombers like the SB2U? I'd think that the defenders wouldn't hear the siren over their own barrage of AA. Perhaps they'd add sirens if the Singapore-based Chesapeakes are intended for inland ops against the IJA in addition to maritime strike.
Not sure if many have seen the "soup plate siren" attached to at least one of the Wirraway airframes:
Were sirens a common thing on naval dive bombers like the SB2U? I'd think that the defenders wouldn't hear the siren over their own barrage of AA. Perhaps they'd add sirens if the Singapore-based Chesapeakes are intended for inland ops against the IJA in addition to maritime strike.
I don't know of any naval dive-bombers which used them, probably because the fear-effect is largely lost on men in the ship working in a sheltered and noisy environment.
Yeah, well, the Britis didn't fit a siren to the Blackburn Skuas because when the Germans saw them diving at them, they tended to run away in horror, suffering convulsions at how ugly they were...
The Skua is arguably more attractive than the Stuka. But there aren't many dive bombers that weren't ugly. The Dauntless and Yokosuka D4Y Suisei are two of the better looking. Actually the Vindicator isn't bad.Yeah, well, the Britis didn't fit a siren to the Blackburn Skuas because when the Germans saw them diving at them, they tended to run away in horror, suffering convulsions at how ugly they were...
The Dauntless and Yokosuka D4Y Suisei
Ugly can be beautiful at times ... ask anu American infantryman of the last thirty years:
It can; beauty is in the eye of the beholder as we know but like anything there are varying degrees of ugly and seeing a Skua do the same thing doesn't have quite the same impact...
You're saying mean things about the Skua. I'm not sure we can be friends any more.
Anyway, getting back to the point of the thread. I dunno what, if anything the Chesapeake is going to do other than provide the British with yet more aeroplanes they will lose on Japan's successful campaign in the region, that is, if they are not destroyed on the ground in raids against the airfields in advance of the invasion. Nevertheless, more airframes probably couldn't do the Allies any harm, but it does depend entirely on how effectively they are used once they get there.