Soviet's P-39

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Sita

just curious ... what you will do by two PV-1 on U2?)))

both variants Pv-1 and Shkas was only few planes ... very small numbers...

Hello Sita,

I have a fairly good idea: I actually created this mod with expanded armament for the U-2... I just ran out of time due to my studies at University before I could finish polishing it and release it at SAS1946. I can send it as an example if you would like.

I used the ShKAS for a couple of things:

- Mainly taking out searchlights.

- Sometimes I also used the gun for attacking vehicles (700 rds of 7.62mm allows me to take out two or three trucks). It is challenging and enjoyable, especially with the recoil effects from the wing gun.

- Although I admit using the weapon defensively seems silly, I've also damaged the radiators on a Gloster Gladiator and an Ar-196... when they overshot after attacking me and flew in front of the Po-2.


I made a similar mod for the Lisunov-2 which activated the forward firing ShKAS (there is already a model for it if you look closely). In that case I used it almost exclusively for attacking searchlights. This is actually fairly useful in-game as using RS-82 and ShKAS to remove search lights makes it much safer for the other night-bombers to attack!


P.S. I should credit Anatoly Borovik for providing me with references and advice.