Author Topic: SEA PLANES PBY-CATALINA or KINGFISHER  (Read 758 times)

Offline shotgunneeley

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Re: SEA PLANES PBY-CATALINA or KINGFISHER
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2009, 10:26:17 PM »
reconnaissance planes could have a radar system (albeit half the radius of a field dar) that displays enemy cons to the country as long as the recon plane is alive. could make it so where the pilot has only a certain amount of time he/she can broadcast the radar. (i.e. you have 500 seconds of radar time and you pull the trigger to engage it). Once its gone, its gone, unless the pilot rearms.

Not sure how historically accurate this would be as I don't know of any recon planes like the PBY Catalina or Piper Grasshopper being able to carry a radar system. I know the Germans had a variation of the AR234 that had an on board radar system, but that's all I know.

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Re: SEA PLANES PBY-CATALINA or KINGFISHER
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2009, 12:17:36 AM »
the radar idea and search plane has some merit it could operate like a field radar relaying that information to any player of your chess piece to see your dar ring on the clipboard. If you wanted to find a cv that was upping aircraft it could be very useful. Ships could even show up on its dar. This would in some way simulate RL intelligence reports. You could even give it an enigma decoder so we could find out what the bish are up to!! :rock
« Last Edit: April 02, 2009, 12:20:00 AM by phatzo »
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Re: SEA PLANES PBY-CATALINA or KINGFISHER
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2009, 06:46:11 AM »
Nope.  Still doesn't sink.  CV just pushes you along.


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there slow aircraft so they cant out run any fighter