Thought I'd open a little discussion about this issue.
This thread is not ment to be harsh and act badly towards Cobra, however I do think that you should read more books about the P51 (preferably not propaganda books) and pherhaps other fighters. Hope I don't break any rules by this, we'll see HTC's response.
I met Cobra online in the MA and after having listened to some "The US planes are the worst in the MA" and "The P51 was the best fighter of the war but in AH anything beats it" and discussed it somewe finally went in the DA to try a few things. (On Cobras request
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I state that a P51, flown the right way, will beat an A6M5 any day.
Cobra states that the P51 was designed for turning and should outturn the A6M5. Also states that the P51 was the best fighter of the war and is represented in AH in a bad way. I do not agree.
I brought up wingloading in the discussion, stating that turn radius is a directly affected by wingloading. Hopefully you will have read up on wingloading in time to reading this thread Cobra as I got the impression you don't know what it is or what it does.
The film shows the discussion we have in the DA, some harsh words are dropped at times but generally "fairly" calm discussion.
There are two flights. Me in P51D and Cobra in the A6M5. We meet at 5k. Had my gunnery been better with the 50 cal (normally only use Mg151 20mm so big difference) and had I not suffered from serious nose bounces my gunnery would surely have been better.
You will see early on in the text buffer that Cobra wants me to turnfight the P51 vs a Zeke, my simple reply is "why?"
The first fight ends in a vertical HO with me on the top and Cobra is put on fire (with some harsh words dropped after).
The second fight goes on for a while, some fighting some talking and I prove my point in it by putting the P51 in a 200mph climb and then going level quickly extending away from Cobra and then coming back, from there on I totally controll the fight while Cobras zeke is left to purly defencive maneuvers. While I do not score a kill I force him to ditch after he's run out of fuel (put a hole in his fuel tank).
Cobra, you also state that the 50 cal guns in AH suck big time, in this fight I hit you with 15-20 rounds. Not nearly enough to bring down a fighter unless they hit exactly right (engine, pilot).
The 50 cal were great weapons, they are in AH aswell but you are needed to hit more then just a couple, they were not nor are not any kind of wounder weapons.
The fact that you did not have more dammage is because the AH dammage modell doesn't modell induvidual bullet holes, something needs to be shot off in order to make a difference. 20mm guns suffer just as much because of this.
Sugest anybody who agrees with my statement "The P51 was never ment to turnfight a Zeke" or don't agree with it watch the film or atleast join the discussion.
Two files for the film. Self extracting Rar archive (chose a folder and it will extract a single AH film file). This is done cause I can not upload anything greater then 2mb files at the moment.
File 1 File 2 I've virus checked both files and they are clean. You may get a warning before opening them though because it is an .exe file, some virus programs warn you about that.
