i16 variants?

[Cavelife]

I love the i16's: In reading about them, I noticed some significant differences between variants. I thought I read the AH i16 was a type 18, but could not find a definate answer anywheres. From what I read (1) the type 18 could have the M-62 or M-63 engine ( 300hp difference.) Does the game account for this? When I pick a gun package, am I picking a completely different model? Type 17 is only model I could find w/ the 12mm option, it had the M-25B engine(2). Did I say I loved I16's? Yes, I have too much time on my hands right now, but I could definately use the extra 300hp.







1. http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/aircraft/fighter/polikarpov-i-16.asp 
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polikarpov_I-16
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shvetsov_M-25
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shvetsov_M-62

[Krusty]

You do not change out horsepower per the weapons load.

What AH does is model one plane then give the weapons loads of similar planes (in this example of the I-16) because they are all similar to each other.

However, as far as I recall, the types in the different AH weapons options were all nearly identical, performance-wise. I did some checking way back when they first released the Rata, and it seemed they were all about par, and the only really distinguishable version other than this was the Type5 or 10 (sorry, don't recall which) which was the most numerous made and technically pre-war but served at the beginning of the war.

If you do some forum searching you might find some of the discussions about it when it came out. I'm pretty sure they said "the engine is this model" somewhere, with charts comparing them.

[BaldEagl]

Try this:  http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,281242.0.html

[Wmaker]

Yep, AH's I-16 already has the most powerful engine that was fitted to the the, the M-63. AH's I-16's speed matches that of the Type 24 prototype and therefore is already roughly 10-20mph "too fast" when compared to the serial production aircraft.

One small improvement that it could use is the 20mm ammo load. There are couple of sources that listed its ammo load at 90rpg as it is now, but most sources, and some of them very reliable, list the ammo load to be 150rpg.

[Flayed]

  The one thing we are missing is the hydraulic handle that the pilots of the origianl I-16 Had to pump no less than 100 times to raise the gear.    Wouldn't that be bun? 

[Wmaker]

  The one thing we are missing is the hydraulic handle that the pilots of the origianl I-16 Had to pump no less than 100 times to raise the gear.    Wouldn't that be bun? 

Nothing hydraulic about it. A cable-crank-pulley system.

[Flayed]

Nothing hydraulic about it. A cable-crank-pulley system.

 Well I stand corrected. lol    I just know it was a manual gear raising method.

[jay]

wasnt there a version of i16 that was a biplane?

[BaldEagl]

wasnt there a version of i16 that was a biplane?

Yes, there was, but IIRC I think it was actually an I-15.  There was also a single high wing varient, a two seat trainer and versions with and without a closed cockpit.

[Simba]

The I-16 had several variants - and knick-names. Just so long as AH flyers don't always call it a Rata ('Rat', which was only the bloody Fascists' preferred handle for it, the Spanish Republicans called it the 'Mosca', meaning 'Fly') I don't care a monkey's about what engine or armament it's got, I had enough of the beast when flying IL-2 and I'd sooner gargle wasps than take one into the virtual skies again.

 

[Krusty]

I'm well aware of the specific Spanish Civil War localization for the name "Rata" -- but it's just something that's always stuck with me. That's my prefered nickname for it. 



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