dedicated scout plane

[Nemisis]

A lot of you guys are saying to just use a fighter, but it can't really spot for artty a most scout planes had wings above the fuselage to give better ground view and, if I am thinking bout the right plane, had a rather large window and could see the ground flying strait up to about 300D in front of him flying at 7000ft, while the fighters have wings below or attached to the fuselage limiting view, they are not as maneuverable and single seat while most scout planes had a crew of 2 (tandem?). I agree with wastin2, just to fly some of those legendary planes is really what this game is about for me, I don't care if my county wins or looses, I like it when we win, but it is not the whole game. <S> wastin2. Dan216Th the Mg42 was fast firing, equivalent of .30 cal, but it was terribly unreliable, one grain of sand would jam it while the American guns, you pour dirt down the barrel and you still kill a S**T  load of Germans and Japs!!!

[Motherland]

Dan216Th the Mg42 was fast firing, equivalent of .30 cal, but it was terribly unreliable, one grain of sand would jam it while the American guns, you pour dirt down the barrel and you still kill a S**T  load of Germans and Japs!!!

Actually, the MG42 was more reliable than the earlier MG34...

"The new machine gun, while being made to lower standards of fit and finish, proved to be quite functional and reliable (a feature that the much more “refined” MG 34 lacked, especially in the mud and snow of the Russian front). "

This is one of the reasons it's still in use today...

http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg33-e.htm

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Boomerang!

Now this i like, a early fighter with arti spotting ability's.


Imagine if they could simply place a colored dot on the map,and ships could fire on those locations easyer.

[Nemisis]

Motherland, while I don't doubt that SOME county SOMEWHERE along with some rebels still use the Mg42, as far as I am aware no major county uses the originol and unmotified Mg42, the U.S. and some of her allies use a modified version, and Germany uses a SLIGHTLY less modified version, the U.S.A. still uses uses the good old, dependable, all american Browning .50 cal heavy Mg. The Mg42, while still a big step up from the Mg34, was still unreliable, and prone to jaming, even their pistols had to have a special dust and dirt protecting holster for cryin out loud, it is hard to screw up a pistol like that. I had an uncle who was in WWII, he and his squad took out a german mg nest and decided to take one to improve their fire power, they took good care of it for all of about 3 weeks, it jamed so many times it wasn't worth the weight to carry it. But we are getting off topic, back to the scout plane, give me your oppinion. Nem...out.

[Motherland]

Motherland, while I don't doubt that SOME county SOMEWHERE along with some rebels still use the Mg42, as far as I am aware no major county uses the originol and unmotified Mg42, the U.S. and some of her allies use a modified version, and Germany uses a SLIGHTLY less modified version, the U.S.A. still uses uses the good old, dependable, all american Browning .50 cal heavy Mg.

lol!
You're really comparing the M2 .50 cal. to the MG42? You realize that these are two COMPLETELY different weapons with COMPLETELY different roles, correct? That would be like me saying that the M1911A1 was a POS and that the MG42... just look at the MG42!
Also... do you really think that the M2 has not been modified since WWII? REALLY?

A much more appropriate comparison to the MG42 can be made with the Browning Automatic Rifle or the Browning M1919 .30 cal. machine gun. These machine guns were so superb, that immediately after the war the US started developing weapons based on the action of the MG42. The result of this was the famous 'all-American' M60, which was heavily based on the MG42 and FG42. Of course this weapon has since been replaced (or supplemented?) by the M249 Minimi, designed by Fabrique Nationale, another 'all-American' company.



Although... you were right on one thing. Only a couple countries still use the MG3.


NATO
    *  Canada
    *  Denmark
    *  Estonia
    *  Latvia
    *  Germany
    *  Greece
    *  Iceland
    *  Italy
    *  Lithuania
    *  Norway
    *  Portugal
    *  Spain
    *  Poland
    *  Turkey

Non-NATO
    *  Australia
    *  Austria.
    *  Bangladesh
    *  Cape Verde
    *  Chile
    *  Cyprus
    *  Finland
    *  Iran
    *  Macedonia
    *  Malta
    *  Mozambique
    *  Myanmar
    *  Nigeria
    *  Pakistan
    *  Saudi Arabia
    *  Sudan
    *  Sweden
    *  Switzerland
    *  Thailand

(from Wikipedia)

[Nemisis]

No I am not comparing, I know that the U.S. browning has been modified since WWII, but it is still the browning, while the Mg42 has gone through some changes in caliber, ROF, the mechanism used has been changed, it isn't even called the Mg42, but the U.S. mg is still the browning, and yes we made the M60, but we still used the browning to, and the M60 and browning .50 aren't even in the same class of Mg, just like the Mg42 and the browning.