WooHoo! The I-16!

[stodd]

 

[SKJohn]

After you do a roll, try a snap roll. All the way around in around a second (source: IL-2).

You can also see this in the You Tube video that was linked in an earlier post.  It snap rolls in the blink of an eye!

[Kazaa]

Huge difference between the russian 20mm's and 23mm.

Yeah about 3mm.

Looks like it will be a great plane to DA in.

[BaldEagl]

I guess i must remind you all that the il-16 were always short ranged front line fighters.

You will NEVER see these planes attacking each other from airfield to airfield.

The later more capable versions while having more guns and such, also have engines that use MORE fuel, it is in that sence the more ubber version of the il-16 will suffer from range more than the early versions.


Regardless, this will be a NOE buster upper, because the planes so small and light and decently armed it should prove able to knock some attackers off a town.

:Edit: and no, the tiny little drop tanks wont really matter that much when it comes to getting this planes butt to another airfield. Most 16's will find them selfs crash landing with no fuel long before they get shot down in alot of cases.

-Throws two cents-

 

Range: 440 km (275 mi)

25-35 miles from one airfield to the next plus the trip home leaves you about 200 miles of range remaining.

Greebo, are we getting the bomb loadout too and if so what configuration?

[texastc316]

half that with the 2.0 fuel burn ration in MA

[Wmaker]

That figure is for cruise setting...and planes in the MAs consume fuel twice as fast compared to real life.

[Steve]

Range: 440 km (275 mi)

25-35 miles from one airfield to the next plus the trip home leaves you about 200 miles of range remaining.

Greebo, are we getting the bomb loadout too and if so what configuration?

fuel burn rate for MA considered?

[BaldEagl]

Oh yeah... forgot about the 2x fuel burn.  Still leaves you around 50-75 miles of range to fight.

[TonyJoey]

 

[Scherf]

Yeah baby!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1



 

 

[Waffle]

Has anyone ever seen a real I-16?

There is one at the Commemorative Air force HQ in Midland, Texas.

[Baumer]

I hope we can get some Chinese National Air Force skins. Should be very interesting with an early China vs Japan set-up. 

[Wmaker]

I-16 type 29, V.P.Sagalaeva 71 IAP -KBF (Baltic Sea Fleet Air Force), Leningrad 1941.

Thanks once again for your awesome default-skin choise, Greebo! Fits well with the Brewster.

One thing that came to my mind were the flaperons. Were they phased out in the Type 24 or not? They were first introduced early on, taken away and then put back in in the Type 10. Now I'm not sure if they were still there from Type 24 onwards. HTC has modelled them, IIRC Oleg's IL-2-sim has not (for the Type 24)...

I'm assuming the 12.7mm UBS on the lower cowling section goes away when 20mm guns are added to the wings as Type 29 never had them?

[Rich46yo]

Big kudus to AH. The I-16 is going to be a fine addition.

I see visions of Continuation War, Barbarossa, Battle of Khalkhyn Gol "if we got KI-27s", Spanish civil war, They were at The Winter War.

All in all had a large footprint in the early war years. Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was about as big a bttle as a battle can be without calling it a war. It was also the first babtism of the early version zero, a small number having faced the Soviets in Manchuria. Interesting fact is that the Soviet check on Manchurias resources only solidified the Imperial Govt. to look south, at Euro/Yank holdings, for their mineral/resource wealth. Thats how badly the Soviets thumped them in Manchuria. And thats how big an impact it had on Japanese strategic thinking. Some go as far as to think Japan never would have attacked the West had they secured Manchurian/Siberian mineral wealth. So the little I-16 kept finding itself at important fights.

But the real winner of the I-16 inclusion will be any early war scenerios on the eastern front. Most of all the FAF vs the Soviet AF.

There were quite a few I-16 versions. Some of them more then adequatly armed and if were lucky we'll get the type-18 with the turbo-charged M-63 engine,  armed with 2 7.62 MGs and 2 20mm cannon.

[BillyD]

   sweet! very nice addition from a historical standpoint.....it's gonna be fun to set up fights between them and 109e! Thanks HTC, waffle, greebo