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Old 08-31-2015, 10:30 AM
Marabekm Marabekm is offline
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Default My apologies

It would appear that I have requested armament changes on some aircraft without giving you guys the research to help prove my point. I apologize. I like most other people dislike the "hey blah blah is wrong" post or "this should be this way post" and the reason? "Because I just know."

So with that being said.
Here you can see the maximum armament for SBD-3 was a 1000 pound bomb centerline and 100 pound bombs on the wings. The SBD-5 had maximum armament of 1600 pound bomb on centerline and 325 pound bombs on wings.
http://www.aviation-history.com/douglas/sbd.html
Here is the report from USS Enterprise Air groups at Midway. Note the SBDs armed with 500 pound bomb centerline and 100 pound bombs on the wings (VS-6) and VB-6 armed with 1000 pound bomb centerline.
http://www.midway42.org/Midway_AAR/VS-6.aspx
Also it appears SBD-5 carried depth charges. Could be interesting.
So SBD-3 Armament should be something like this:
1x 1000 pound bomb
1x 500 pound bomb and 2x100 pound bomb
1x 500 pound bomb
1x 250 pound bomb
1x 250 pound bomb and 2x 100 pound bombs
2x 100 pound bombs
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Ok now for the B5N2 currently maximum bomb load is 600 kg. I believe this should be increased to 800 kg.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japa...Midway/Nagumo/
If you scroll down and find the attack on Midway you will see Soryu and Hiryu attack units armed with #80 land bombs. (weight 805 kg)

Hope this helps guys. Thanks.

Last edited by Marabekm; 08-31-2015 at 09:49 PM.
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