Author Topic: Boats? What boats? (Read 343 times)

Bloody · « **on:** April 28, 2000, 08:53:00 PM »

Just wanted to know a bit more about these boats that people are talking about. Are we going to be sailing these vessels or are they going to be drones?

What models? For what purposes?

(loves to sail the)Bloody(seas now and then)
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Kieren · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2000, 09:22:00 PM »

Aircraft carriers. Big ones. Destroyers. Cruisers. Rumors persist there may be PT boats, controllable by humans.

B-Town · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2000, 07:52:00 AM »

Shhhhhh!!
Your getting me all exited!

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Bloody · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2000, 09:30:00 AM »

sounds cool (if it's true), but they're going to have to come out with some real naval a/c additions soon. F4U is great (we have that). how about F4F's, F6F's, B-25's, TBD's, Zeros, carrier-based Spits, etc., etc., etc...?

I'm afraid these requirements may seriously delay the chistening of the carriers.

Bloody

Kieren · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2000, 11:36:00 AM »

Really? We have the Zero coming, there is the Corsair, the Seafire was merely a navalized Spit V... what is lacking of course are naval bombers.

oops, just noticed B25 on your carrier list... you know that was a one-off mission from the Hornet in early 1942?

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Bloody · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2000, 03:57:00 AM »

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oops, just noticed B25 on your carrier list... you know that was a one-off mission from the Hornet in early 1942?

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Bloody

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Azrael · « **Reply #6 on:** April 30, 2000, 04:13:00 AM »

Read: The B-25 was not your usual carrier based attack plane, it was used in a single raid - the doolittle raid.

Therefore the B-25 doesn't really fit in a carrier planeset.

Az

II.(K)/JG2

bloom25 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 30, 2000, 04:57:00 AM »

You left off the TBF (or TBM) Avenger, the only bomber/torpedo plane used by the US at the end of the war. (It was also the largest plane to fly off carriers during the war. Not counting b25 of course.

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The F and M were identical, the M was made by GM and the F by Grumman.

There really isn't that many planes you could model for carriers. Let me see: F4u, F6f, f4f, Helldiver, Avenger, Vindicator (vibrator

), Dauntless, Buffalo, Kingfisher. Anything else?

British: Seafire, f4u, Swordfish ( "stringbag" Lol, can you imagine flying one of these.

), er um I can't remember any other British planes. Fairy Fulmar maybe...

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Kieren · « **Reply #8 on:** April 30, 2000, 09:48:00 AM »

Oh, the British had many, many more than this! Will dig the references out in a bit...

The Japanese had the best naval air arm at the start of the war... they can't be omitted. Will dig for them too.

You know there was a navalized Stuka, right? I don't know what fighter was planned for use, however.

mx22 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2000, 11:55:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Kieren:

You know there was a navalized Stuka, right? I don't know what fighter was planned for use, however.

I think I read somewhere that it should have been BF109. Of course, German carriers never realized, so it's all theoretical. Now I say give German sailors Bismark and a pack of submarines

Btw, do you know that anti aircraft guns on Bismark were so advanced they couln't travel slow enough to track Sworfish torpedo bombers that attacked it. (I heard this in one of the programs about Bismark on History channel couple of months ago)

mx22