WooHoo! The I-16!

[Wmaker]

Another sight that lists the type-18 as having 2 7.62 SHKAS and 2 SHVAK 20mm cannon. Tho I think they are wrong and the cannon never went in the 18s, unless a field modification.

Yep, my info comes from Yefim Gordon's I-16 -book. He's pretty much the world's leading expert on soviet military aviation. Our's seems to be Type 28/29 -hybrid (in Type 29 configuration in the screenshots, with 2*20mm/2*7.62 it would basically be a 28).

About the turbocharged version, there was an experimental version with TK-turbochargers but it never went to production.

EDIT/Type 29 had options for 6 RS82s and two drop tanks./EDIT

[waystin2]

This thing is going to be a nightmare to shoot down.  

The more I read up on it, the more I agree with this.

[Rich46yo]

Dont forget Russia supplied the Chinese with I-16s during their war with Japan. I dont have any exact figures handy but the I-16 had a huge foot print in the war. Maybe the only fighter to go from the start, "Spain", to the end.

So we have them in Spain, in Manchuria, in Finland "winter war" "continuation War", in Barbarossa, in China against japan. I know WW-ll was one big airplane swap but still, the I-16 had a large presence.

At its birth it was revolutionairy, being first cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to see squadron service in any country in the world. It flew from '33 into the '50s in some air forces. If we get the 1939 type 28, "which it looks like to me", then its a later model, better armed, a little faster...ect

[VonMessa]

Will pilot wounds show up in the cockpit still, or will we get to see the gray matter all over the fuselage?

[MachFly]

should be easier to see when your leaking oil

[MachFly]

Russians had really fast (and small) aircraft carriers lol












Now we need to TB-3

[nipper]

Spanish markings

[Kazaa]

Russians had really fast (and small) aircraft carriers lol

(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)


Now we need to TB-3

That would be a very fun gimic to have in AH2.

[APDrone]

This thing is going to be a nightmare to shoot down.  

Not if this nightmare is flying it..

 

[Megalodon]

Spanish markings
(Image removed from quote.)

I think the 1st person to shoot down a 109 was flying a I-16  for the spanish.

[Ex-jazz]

<snip> In the negative side, it had poor longitudinal stability, a tendency to stall in a glide, and was exceedingly temperamental, requiring highly skilled airmanship to perform well and not kill the pilot before the enemy had a shot at him.<snip>

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

I wonder if this is included to the fm...

[Wingnutt]

Every time they update the home page with info on another goodie that is coming out in the next update, at first im like     ... but then im like     because that means it will be that much longer till it actually comes out..

Such a roller coaster.

[Wingnutt]

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

I wonder if this is included to the fm...

huge disadvantage if so, considering all the other notoriously twitchy aircraft are modeled (arguable) more forgiving than they really were.

[moot]

Which ones?

[Karnak]

Which ones?

F4U, P-39 spring to mind.