We need night fighters!!! A simple poll

[Sturm]

Man it was beautiful flew my D-9 at 15K full moon out spotted a lanc around 16k.  Our dar was down and it was by chance I found him.  I closed the distance and flew underneath him.  He never saw me "guess he was out for a smoke or doing laundry"  So I closed on him from below, range 500 I take a look up and wave at the sleeping tail gunner, he nestles back into his pillow thinking of his bed at home.  I pull up and aim at his port wing and engines, as soon as I start hitting him his tail gunner "wet pants and all" unleashes a volley of 50 at me that smack my wing twice and send me spiraling to the ground.  Visible damage was 2 smoking engines.  If I would have had a ME-410 or a HE-219, prefer the 219 I would have been off looking for my next victim, instead I did a nice pancake into the ground.  Another important aspect,is the dar, flying for the Knights we get used to not having it.  He-219 with dar albeit limited range would help out.  Make it available only to the country with the least amount of flyers, or the country with dar down.  Hell give it to everyone.  We need 1 of these buff killers asap.  Everything is true I just wrote except waiving to the tail gunner I embellished it to make the story seem more real    A knight flyer last night responded when I said we needed night fighters with a what do you mean we need them?  We have our own dar!!  Proceeded by which has been currently down for sometime!  Flew without DaR for a good hour or so last night at one time.  So here it is a poll Night fighters or no?        

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Sturm6 StaffelKapitän
JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron

[Ripsnort]

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What was the question again?

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[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 03-26-2001).]

[Sturm]

Yes even the 61, make us both happy the 219 and the 61.  I could suffice with those two even if they were the only planes added next patch.Ho ho remote controlled turret, touched a 61 at the garber facility thing is monsterous.  The guy giving the tour said it was more maneuverable then the 51 and 47 at alt.    

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Sturm6 StaffelKapitän
JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron

[Hening]

Radar as an enhancement to be installed at the hanger would be helpful on certain N/F aircraft.  Night fighting was a major part of the air war and it was not flown by standard aircraft and suicidle pilots.  Keep the moonlit arena, but please get the technology.

Night Fighter nut,
F/L Hening
416RCAF

[Sturm]

Perk points for radar.  If you get a 219 you have to use perk points in order to get the radar, otherwise it is a normal 219 with the shrage musik of course.  That way not every goober has a flying radar dome.  And make it expensive as well.  I would pay 200 for radar.  Although it would take me 1 week to get it it would be worth it.  

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Sturm6 StaffelKapitän
JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron

[Sturm]

One thing we might have is the dweebs who say the 410 can't turn with the zeke therefore make it an uber fighter, this in turn will bring out the anti-lufty's saying  it should be banned and no twin engine fighter could out manuever a zeke, along with 1000's of pages of facts and documents for their cause showing a P-51 can out turn a 14 thousand pound fighter.  Hundreds of threads stating the removal of this bastige of a plane, while the lufty's are sitting back and laughing at the simple fact without a single post of data knowing that the plane was wrong in the first place, and form a campaign to have it be brought back to its original debut instead of outright removal or addition to the perk system with a single thread.  Would this really happen you be the judge.  

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Sturm6 StaffelKapitän
JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron

[Gorf]

I SAY YEA!!!

[brady]

  Yes Please...

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[This message has been edited by brady (edited 03-26-2001).]

[Nashwan]

As Britain was the first country with radar equipped nightfighters, scored the first kil with a radar equipped plane, and had the best nightfighter of the war, how about adding the Mossie as the first nightfighter?

[Sturm]

Mossie best night fighter?  Don't think so, JU-88 by all means was it.  Stats don't lie, kills do, 88 was impressive to say the least, not knocking the mossie but the 88 stood clear above it.  He-219 if the numbers were greater was the best NF of the war, and also the most powerful AC in WW2.  Also had a 2-1 kills to lost planes ratio, lost planes being anything ground mishaps and such.      

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Sturm6 StaffelKapitän
JV44 Platzschutzstaffel
Airfield Defense Squadron

[Karnak]

Sturm,
Keep in mind that the He219 couldn't even climb at 2,000ft per minute.  It WAS a good nightfighter, but it had some big drawbacks too.

As for the Ju88 being a better nightfighter than the Mosquito: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

You should read some non-Luftwaffe books.

Nightfighters I would like modeled:

He219
Mosquito NF.Mk 30
P-61B
Ju88C
Beaufighter

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-Karnak

[Glunz]

How did the 262 nightfighter version do ?

[R4M]

 

Originally posted by Glunz:
How did the 262 nightfighter version do ?

It killed several mosquitoes without letting them even know they were about to die  

BTW The best prop nightfighter of the WWII was the He219.

[Dowding]

Karnak - didn't you know that the LW had all the best planes, the best pilots, the most skill? Moreover, they were all fervent anti-fascists too.  

Exactly who won the war, anyway?  

[funked]

Why the heck would we want night fighters?  We can see at night just fine due to the magic icons, and we have an in-flight AWACS display which far exceeds any equipment in a WW2-vintage night fighter.