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Originally Posted by Panzergranate
IL-2 Korea sounds appealing.
Stormoviks were flown by the North Koreans and there were still a fair few prop jobs doing most of the ground attack work, new fangled jets being too vulnerable to FlaK damage and expensive.
Dogfighting a Mig-15 with a Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury turbo prop fighter would make for an ineresting experience.
Ditto flying an F8 Skyraider on a ground attack mission.
B-36 bombers with an F-86 Sabre or Goblin mini-fighter slung under the belly.
Early semi-blind SAM missiles coming up at ya....
North Korean dumb fire rocket FlaK....
All those crappy early post WW2 US Navy jet fighters with the underpowered and unreliable Westinghouse J-34 jet powerplant....
Sounds better the more I think about it....
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Forgot this post in all of the national controversy, but yeah! My thoughts exactly, theres a lot more variety to the aircraft flown in korea than most realize also:
TWIN MUSTANGS! I love how the Air Force thought: whats better than one mustang?
Two mustangs obviously! If it worked for Twix candy bars it can work for the P-51, so they just welded a couple together and the result:
AWESOMENESS!
I forget who said it but somebody back there said they thought it wouldn't be very cool due to the early stage of jet development, well to each his own, but the F-86 and MiG-15 were very reliable and well engineered aircraft for their generation, its basically like WW2, just a lot faster. See the MiG Alley episode of Dogfights, its one of the best ones for great guns battles.