Er... the German's were obsessed with catching it. Hence, a number of attempts at higher altitude/speed/rear-gunner equipped He-219s, the purpose design Ta-154 "mosquito catcher", derivatives of the Do-335 and Me-262 as well as all of the late war night fighter design competitions. In fact, the German's never built another night fighter in quantity because of it - they kept returning to the drawing boards seeking paper designs with greater and greater performance!

Salute

As has been mentioned, for some reason Oleg chose to model a 1942 version of the Mosquito FB.

Later versions were much faster.

Below is a link to a test of a 1943 Nightfighter version, equipped with 1943 version Merlin 61 engines, operating at only +15 boost, it has a top speed of 408 mph, quite a bit faster than the game's version.

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...uito/mp469.pdf

Later models which used 150 octane and which had boost raised to +25 had a top speed a little above 426 mph.

The Mosquito outperformed any other twin engined prop driven nightfighter or nightbomber.

NF.XV: A high-altitude night fighter with a pressurized cabin, extended wingtips, two-stage Merlin engines, lightened airframe, and armament consisting of four 7.7 millimeter Browning machine guns in a ventral pack. Only five built, one being a rebuild of an undesignated prototype used to evaluate a pressure cabin, the other four being rebuilds of NF.IIs.

If one wants to read some reports other than biased selective ones:
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o.../mosquito.html

I see, you want to exclude all rare versions of British aircraft, but its ok to have 109K4 -C3 which only saw service in single Staffel, (approx. 9 aircraft) as experimental aircraft. Or TA-152H, or any number of other German aircraft which are in the game which are very rare or total fantasies. Double standards anyone?

Here's a less rare Mk IX, another 1943 version. Top speed 405 mph.

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...r495-level.jpg

And the NF Mk 30, equipped with the Merlin 72 at only +18 boost, has a top speed of 397 mph as you can see from table below:

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...m748-level.jpg

With engines boosted to +21, and 350 + more horsepower, it could achieve 426 mph, as I mentioned above.

Charts showing engine horsepower at +18 and +21:

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...in72-curve.jpg

Either of these aircraft is faster than the version we have in the game.

Amazing how German fanatics insist on one standard for their 'uber' planes, but another for Allied aircraft.

By the way, all these charts ARE from Mike William's WWII Performance. I would suggest anyone who is interested go there:

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o.../mosquito.html

@ buzzsaw

I, for my part find it really amazing how poor your position must seem to you to introduce such polemic sentences in this, until then, fairly objektive thread:

So it seems you see no problem in having the latest, best possible models of German aircraft modelled in IL-2, and only the earliest, poorest performing Allied?

If that is the case, then YOUR objectivity is clearly in doubt.

No doubt you'd be full of outrage if IL-2 only had the 1942 FW-190A4, but it seems when it comes to the Mosquito, you're happy with the game only having a 1942 version?

As far as how 'poor' my position is, I would suggest you actually look at the historical documents presented, and compare the figures in those documents to the performance of IL-2 aircraft, and the claims of some of the posters here before you start your accusations.

Then you'd understand that in fact the responses to this thread were far from being objective, in fact there was a lot of false information being purveyed to a fair question about the Mosquito's performance by the thread originator. The suggestion was the Mosquito had no speed advantage, when in fact, it did at a lot of altitudes, especially when facing only prop driven Nightfighter opposition.

The obvious reason why we do not have a NF mark of the Mosquito in the game is that the game doesn't simulate night bomber/fighter operations.

The Mosquito FB VI is of course the right choice for the game as it perfectly fits into the tactical environment it simulates and it was used in large numbers. Crying for any other version - especially a NF - is as stupid as crying for a flyable Lancaster, flyable B-17 or flyable Bf 110 night fighter. Even a flyable Mosquito B IV wouldn't be useful as there is no map for it.

What's left is a possible discussion about the performance of the Mosquito FB VI we have in the game.
IMHO this is a very good report about the relative performance of it: http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...I-tactical.pdf
That trials could have been made with the game, couldn't they ;)

The only question is whether our Mosquito has a Merlin 21 or Merlin 23 (which would boost the performance a bit).

Wow, all the issues with just one plane :grin:
Honestly we all know there will be NO improvements to the planes in IL2 as Oleg has repeatedly stressed.
However looking forward to SOW BoB and the many varrients yet to be announced I do not see why we will not have flyable B17's, Lancasters and nightfighters :grin:

Only if you restrict your flying to 1942. If you want a scenario set anytime else, you are out of luck.

Boost levels were increased as the war went on, by the end, the Mk VI was using +25 boost.

Where is that version???

There is a test of a +25 boost FB VI on the Mosquito page, which shows that even when fitted with external drop tanks, it is FAR faster at low and medium alts than the version we have in game.

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...x809-level.jpg

Yes, there won't be any new aircraft added (by Oleg) in the game, but that doesn't mean people need to stick their heads on the sand and pretend we have a Mosquito which performs up to the level the actual aircraft could.

You shouldn't give to much on the label within the game, the FB VI is more a "Early 43" a/c and can be used well within 1944 until the introduction of the MW-50 boosted Luftwaffen fighters (Mid to Late 44). This timeframe fits perfect to the Normandy map.

Like with the other fighters +25 lbs. was introduced to intercept the V-1 and the use within 2nd TAF didn't start before the end of the Normandy campaign. (see: http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...rade-fuel.html)

Sure for a 45 scenario a later +25 lbs FB VI would be needed and for a 44 scenario a little boosted (Merlin 23/25) FB VI would be nice but if you limit the planeset to common types (e.g. Bf 109 G-6 in Mid 1944) and not only to the latest but limited available types it's ok.