Transports

[ElAurens]

Cannot argue with that.

BTW, in various mods they are flyable. Hence my tale of smoking holes in the ground, and um... I was the one laying in the bottom of that hole.



One of the BlitzPigs did a mod AC-47 gunship from the Viet Nam era that was fun to play with. We had a map with truck convoys all over it and we set out at dusk to attack them. Holding the correct altitude and speed and a near perfect circle to keep the guns on target is not an easy thng, even in a slow, lumbering transport.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by shelby

shall we have transports for Great Britain and Japan for il2?

While it would be interesting to have British- or Japanese-built transports in the game, I would argue that the UK and Japan already have their most important transport type: the DC-3 or license-built versions of it.

Seriously.

While the British had a number of transports converted from bombers, they didn't have a successful native heavy transport plane until late in the war (the Avro York). In the meantime the U.S. supplied over 2000 C-47 to the UK and Commonwealth. Additionally, the UK and Commonwealth nations impressed or militarized existing fleets of civilian DC-3s.

In Japan, the license-built version of the DC-3, the Nakajima/Showa L2D, was built in far greater numbers than any other Japanese transport plane.

It's hard to understate the importance of the DC-3/C-47 on aviation history. It was the dominant transport plane of the late 1930s and early 40s; just about every nation on earth used it. In many ways, it was the first modern transport aircraft and some are still in commercial operation today!

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

One of the BlitzPigs did a mod AC-47 gunship from the Viet Nam era that was fun to play with.

There are lots of fun mods for the C-47. In addition to the AC-47 mod, there is also a modded version with crude bomb loadouts designed for a El Salvador-Ecuador "Soccer War" campaign. Basically, you press the trigger and a bomb drops out of the plane - representing bombs rolled out the cargo door by the crew chief.

Fun campaign, but a bit dated. Serious fun for warbird buffs because the Soccer War was the last time that piston-engined WW2-era planes engaged each other in combat (Corsairs vs. Mustangs).

[1984]

another weapon of li-2 -

Летно-технический состав активно участвовал в совершенствовании самолета. В 101 АПДД был разработан вариант штурманской кабины для Ли-2 и отправлен на завод № 84 с целью внедрения ее в серийное производство. Силами ИТС турель МВ-3 под ШКАС заменялась на УТК-1 под УБТ. Для отражения атак истребителей с хвоста на самолете смонтировали держатель авиационных гранат ДАГ-10 (работы велись под руководством заместителя старшего инженера 101 АП по вооружению инженер-капитана Левина).