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Offline Charon

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« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2005, 01:31:02 PM »
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Charon, look at the picture more carefully. The glass nose has 4 extra 50cal barrels protruding from it. This is not the standard glass nose, as you say


It has exactly the number it is supposed to have as a standard J model.

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Medium Bomber Version: One flexible 0.50-inch machine gun in nose, 300 rounds. One fixed 0.50-inch machine gun in nose, 300 rounds. Beginning with B-25J-20, a second fixed 0.50-inch gun was added in the nose.

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/b025-17.html


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B-25J Mitchell: The most extensively produced B-25 variant, with deliveries totaling 4,318 aircraft, this 'Medium Level Bomber' had a crew of six with a glazed nose carrying one trainable and two fixed forward-firing 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Browning machine guns. The dorsal turret was moved further forward to a position just to the rear of the main cabin, and the first 150 aircraft were completed with provisions for a 2,000 lb bomb or torpedo. Many of the aircraft were later adapted with a 'solid' nose and armed with eight 50 cal Browning machine guns. Variants that were produced as conversions from B-25J standard included the CB-25J Mitchell utility transport and the VB-25J Mitchell staff transport.

http://members.fortunecity.com/llium/history/warbirds/usa/b-25.html


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...The B-25J was effectively the same as a B-25H, but with no 75 millimeter cannon and a different nose, or rather a pair of alternate noses. The first was a glass nose with one flexible and two fixed 12.7 millimeter Brownings, and the second was a "strafer" nose with eight 12.7 millimeter Brownings. The longer noses resulted in the B-25J returning to the length of the B-25C/D. In principle, the strafer nose could be fitted to earlier B-25 variants in the field. Other changes included reinstatement of the copilot position, giving the B-15J a six-man crew, and uprated P&W R-2600-29 engines...

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:5L_DDCItyzQJ:[url]www.vectorsite.net/avb25.html+B-25+nose+armament&hl=en&start=17[/url]

There is also a cutaway of a J model here. It is a pre -20 with only the single fixed .50 fitted and the single flex .50.


1 flex, two fixed (lower right), four chin (two showing two on the other side). They are exactly where they are supposed to be. The tracer streams match up to the appropriate barrells. The two far chin streams appear to be obscured by the smoke, but you can make them out of you look closely.

Some operators (I believe the Brits in particular) removed the fixed forward .50s in uints that conducted pure medium altitude mission profiles.

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« Last Edit: September 15, 2005, 02:10:57 PM by Charon »

Offline Krusty

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« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2005, 02:07:36 PM »
I stand corrected

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« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2005, 07:41:30 PM »
if only we had some b25s

or a NEW plane
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« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2005, 05:04:08 PM »
Have the options package for either standard bomber mode or ground attacker and the fighter boys would have to make a close pass to determine which model they faced before coming back in for a head on pass.

Where do we sign up? and include the 75mm gun option and you will never get me out of it :)

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« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2005, 04:09:54 PM »
This reminds me....

make bombers capable of being crewed by more than 1 gunner!

I pine for the days of Air Warrior when I could pile squaddies up in a bomber for some low-level hell...

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