Other armament corrections

[IceFire]

I feel like we were pretty successful in the end in digging up the correct armament options for the Yak-9UT which had been wrong since it's introduction. Fortunately thanks to some folks on this forum and some additional work we were able to find everything we needed including some extremely useful documents in Russian that Google Translate helped with.

So I'm wondering if there are some other aircraft where the armament is flat out wrong. I'm not asking for a .50cal effectiveness thread... that's another subject altogether. This is about aircraft with guns that are incorrect.

Off the top of my head there are most of the Japanese Navy fighters that have the wrong type of cannons installed. The A6M should have the Type 99-I or Type 99-II installed depending on which model of Zero. In-game they have MG-FF/M cannons. A close cousin of the weapon that the Japanese used but not the same gun. I believe the later Zeros also use the MG131 for their heavy machine gun armament.

The J2M3 should have a mix of Type 99 I and II whereas the J2M5 should have all 99-II. Not sure what cannons the N1K1 and 2 should have but I would assume the 99-II. Need to do some more research.

What color of tracer did the Japanese use? Was it really yellow?

Also the FM-2 I believe should be able to be fitted with HVAR rockets as should the P-51D.

What do people know about and what realistic options can we potentially ask to be changed by TD in the future?

[Mysticpuma]

P-51 with rockets, cluster/fragmentation bombs, K-14 gunsite, Napalm. That would be nice? Cheers MP

[TinyTim]

Good thread Ice! Glad to see the Yak-9UT getting its armament fixed.

Speaking of Yaks - Yak-3 VK-107 has wrong armament too. According to Yefim Gordon it was fitted either with two (both in cowling) or with three B-20 cannons (additional one firing through the spinner). In the sim it has one ShVAK (between cilinders) and one UBS (cowling).

Generally I agree, armament on Japanese planes seems to be a mess. Developers appeared to have used placeholder weapons which then never got replaced.

About J2M3 - according to Rene Francillon this version of the plane came with both armament options you mentioned - 2 x type99-I + 2 x type99-II or 4 x type99-II. To distinguish between the two, the latter was named J2M3a, so technically you are right, but then our J2M3 can simply be renamed J2M3a and everything is fine.

Ki-46-III Kai is another example - it's obliquely firing cannon is Russian one, instead of Ho-203 (again according to Rene Francillon).

Also VYa-23 appears to be used on many russian planes in place of NS-23.

[JG53Frankyboy]

Overworked ammoloadouts for the IAR80/81.
Generaly said, they have around twice as much ammo in their weapons as they should.
And also the 81a has a "replacement" weapon. A 13mm MG131 instead a 13mm Browning

A Fw190F-8 with Panzerblitz antitank rockets would be nice.

[Erkki]

Hmm...

I-16 type 24 should have 4 x ShKAS when it now has 2 ShVak 2 ShKas, type 28 was the one with ShVak cannons(dunno which one the performance matches), type 24 was apparently way more produced but a name change could work too.

[41Sqn_Banks]

Bomb load is missing on all Spitfire V variants.

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by IceFire

What color of tracer did the Japanese use? Was it really yellow?

Yes. They were all yellow.
I have quite a bit of information on tracer colors, sorted by country and the list of guns with tracer color.
I posted this on the UBI forum a couple years ago.
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...3/m/6901032287

Scroll down a few posts till you get to my username.

[JG53Frankyboy]

The A6M5b is missing a light MG in its nose.
It had a haevy AND light one as nose armament.
The light one was deleted with the 5c, to sace weight because of the additional heavy MGs in the wings.

[Oktoberfest]

Capacity to drop rocket pods from german fighters after firing, as historical.

[JG53Frankyboy]

Originally Posted by Oktoberfest

Capacity to drop rocket pods from german fighters after firing, as historical.

Possible since 4.10, read the guide...
Just give this command a key