Pe-2FT, Multi-role attack-bomber;
Maximum level speed; 'clean' 360 mph @ 13,500 ft declining to 280 mph @ sea level.
Typical range; 817 miles with a weapon load of 2,205 lb (1000kg).
Climb to; 16,405 ft 9 minutes 18 seconds
Service ceiling 28,870 ft.
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Up to 3,527 lb of disposable stores carried in a lower-fuselage weapons bay rated at 882 lb, in two engine nacelle weapons bays each rated at 220 lb, and on four hardpoints (all under the wings with each unit rated at 551 lb), and generally comprising six 220 lb FAB-100 bombs and four 551 lb FAB-250 bombs.
Fixed armament of Two 0.3 (7.62mm) ShKas or one 0.3 ShKas and one 0.5 in (12.7mm) Beresin UBS Fixed foward-firing machine guns in the nose, one 0.3 in ShKas trainable rearward-firing machine gun in a dorsal turret, one 0.3 ShKas or 0.5 in Beresin UBT
trainable rearward-firing machine gun in the dorsal position, and one 0.3 in ShKas or 0.5 in Beresin UBT trainable rearward-firing machine gun in the ventral position.
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Wing; Span 56 ft 1.6 in
Fuselage and tail; 41ft 11 in; Height 11ft 2.67 in.
There ya go, I hope HT uses this info in modeling one of the finest tactical warplanes of the 'Great Patriotic war'
I vote yes, heh.
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"Then I played the trump. The Spitfire was clawing wildly through the air, trying to follow me in a roll, when I dropped the nose. The Thunderbolt howled and ran for earth. Barely had the Spitfire started to follow--and I was a long way ahead of him by now--when I jerked back on the stick and threw the Jug into a zoom climb. In a straight or turning climn, the British ship had the advantage. But coming out of a dive, there's not a British or a German fighter that can come close to a Thunderbolt rushing upward in a zoom. Before the Spit pilot knew what had happened, I was high above him, the Thunderbolt hammering around. And that was it--for in the next few moments the Spitfire flier was amazed to see a less maneuverable, slow-climbing Thunderbolt rushing straight at him, eight guns pointed ominously at his cockpit."
