Plane update list

[Raptor]

This is my guess in which planes will be updated. Everything in parenthesese are new planes that may come with each remodel.
- Spit & 109 (Thats a given)
- B17 & B26 (B17F, earlier B24)
- Tiffy, Temp, Hurr & Moss (with fixes to moss FM and DM, might add all fighter varient of moss)
- 110 & Ju88 (another ju88 model, solid nose version? and maybe me410)
- Lanc (Helifax)
- Ju87 (version with 37mm on wings, may add He-111 around now)
- P40 (add N version and maybe P39)
- Me 163, Me 262, Ta-152
- Boston, A20, C47 (B25 and A26)

Then move on to another Theatre.
If it is PTO then:
- F4U
- F4F, FM2, F6F (F6F-3?)
- A6M2, A6M5B (A6M3)
- TBM, SBD (Hell Diver)
- B5N, D3A (later version of B5N and Judy)
- Ki61 & N1K (Ki44)
- Ki67 (Betty)
- (Brewster Buffalo, beaufighter)
- (B29, no A-Bomb possibility)

Eastern Front
- Yak9u, Yak9T (Yak-3)
- La5, La7
- IL2 (IL-4)
- (PE-2, PE-8)
- (SB-2, Tu-2)
- (Ju52)

These are only planes, I'm sure some new gv's will be added with each theatre. (I know I left some out, I did this off the top of my head)

What do you think? Does it sound feasible? (Don't start the whole "TOO MANY AMERICAN PLANES!" and "WE WANT NOOKZ!!!" whining.

[1K3]

Originally posted by Raptor01
Eastern Front
- Yak9u, Yak9T (Yak-3)
- La5, La7
- IL2 (IL-4)
- (PE-2, PE-8)
- (SB-2, Tu-2)
- (Ju52)  

On Pe-8

Pe-8's value on the Eastern Front is nothing. It's more of a propaganda and a VIP transport:) Most VVS planesets during GPW are strictly for tactical operations ("Blitzkreig" type operations)

http://www.vectorsite.net/avpe2.html

The Pe-8 performed the Soviet Union's first bombing raid on Berlin, on the night of 10 August 1941, barely three weeks after the Nazi invasion. It was mostly a propaganda exercise, with only five of the eight bombers on the raid actually reaching Berlin, and then dumping their loads haphazardly. The difficulties with the raid and other Pe-8 operations in the same timeframe were mostly chalked up to the unreliable diesel engines, leading to their wholesale replacement with AM-35As.

Along with conducting long-range night raids, Pe-8s also served as long-range transports, dropping agents and supplies and delivering diplomats. In April 1942, a Pe-8 performed a non-stop flight to England to deliver embassy personnel and mail, and in May one carried Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and his staff to Britain and the US.

* It is unclear how many Pe-8s were built. Western sources list only 79 built into October 1941, when the state factory building the type had to be abandoned in front of the German invasion, and that the M-82-powered aircraft were mostly or all refits. More reliable Russian sources claim that the Pe-8 was actually built into 1944 and that total production was 93 or 96, with later production of new M-82 powered machines from a state factory in Kazan.

In any case, by 1944 the Pe-8 was no longer up to first-line combat against much improved Luftwaffe night fighter defenses, and was retired to second-line duties. It operated in various roles in the postwar period, including operation as a testbed and transport service with Aeroflot, and flew into the early 1950s before being phased out entirely.

The report card on the Pe-8 seems a bit mixed. It was an advanced aircraft for its time, comparing well at least on paper with contemporary British and American heavy bombers, but given the small number built it made no major contribution to the Soviet war effort, and was clearly not regarded as a weapon deserving of priority production. The Red Air Force was focused on battlefield support and there was little emphasis on strategic bombing at the time.

[Ack-Ack]

Would be better off with the Ju87D-5 instead of the Ju87G-1.  The D-5 carried 2 wingmounted 20mm cannons.  While it didn't pack the punch of the G-1's 37mm Flak18 guns, it only carried IIRC, 6 rounds per gun.  At least the D-5 carried a little bit more ammo.



ack-ack

[Karnak]

There is no later version of the B5N2.  They'd need to add the B6N or B7A to get a more modern IJN torpedo bomber.

You also left the Italian's high and dry there.

[Tails]

Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Would be better off with the Ju87D-5 instead of the Ju87G-1.  The D-5 carried 2 wingmounted 20mm cannons.  While it didn't pack the punch of the G-1's 37mm Flak18 guns, it only carried IIRC, 6 rounds per gun.  At least the D-5 carried a little bit more ammo.



ack-ack

True on the ammunition disadvantage. But, with the Flack18, one shell from each gun is all you need to kill most tanks, which is what the Gustav Stuka was built for.

[Loddar]

More armament variants for A6M5 and
for Ki84

[Fongman]

Why not Chinese Aircraft,I-16...........

[Fruda]

The Russian planeset needs the MiG-3.