Sunderland?

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

I would expect it to be in the first release:
Very old (december last year) WIP-picture: http://files.games.1c.ru/il2pict/s25a.jpg

Taken from post #4 in "Oleg Maddox' News" in this forum.

Skarphol

I meant as flyable, that could easily just be a target, though I certainly didn't know about it.

I know it's early WIP, but that looks wrong, the colour scheme should be white sides to the hull, and where is the top turret? For later marks the top turret may have been omitted, but the early (BoB period) Sunderlands would have had them.

In the early part of the war, the Sunderlands mission included an anti-air element, they were required to defend convoys in mid Atlantic. Later in the war, when CAMs and escort carriers became available, their mission would have been mainly anti-submarine, but in the early war bomber inteception (well out of range of anyone's single engined, or probably twin engined, fighters) would have been a concern.