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Old 03-18-2010, 05:19 PM
Avimimus Avimimus is offline
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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger View Post
Well if airspeed is anything to go by I assumed the extra 2 engines were constantly in reverse on the TB-3!

In fact I distinctly remember a mission on SOV where a person drove his TB-3 overland across the map and parked it on the enemy airfield and swapped to the gunner positions.

In the chat I think he said it was faster that way! Anyway I thought it was an excelent ploy and he got 100% for creativity!

Cheers and thanks, I'ld completely forgotten.
...And to think that fighter/attack variants were proposed - including one prototype built with three 76mm cannons (forward firing).