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Offline Avanti

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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2010, 04:03:12 AM »
My logic might be flawed here... But if it takes one to know one, but the one actually isn't, then the one that takes one to know one is actually the one by at least tenfold, correct?

Yeah ahh.... just turn left next street

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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2010, 04:38:44 AM »
I'm all for it. as long as when you suicide, your account is wiped and AH is uninstalled and your IP blocked from the bbs and game. I mean cmon.... you're dead.
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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2010, 07:45:11 AM »
Stop sending me PMs.

     He does love his PMs.  Pity his skin is so thin  :D
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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2010, 12:34:08 PM »
How about just bombing the target. Now that's a good idea.

What?!?!?!  Are you daft man!  How dare you suggest someone use any sort of skill.


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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2010, 12:39:29 PM »
Yep and you've learned how to send stupid PMs to people. Just hope skuzzy does something about that.

He sends PMs to me too, find them to be very funny and my squadron mates always enjoy when I show them the PMs.  Also, his calling out on Channel 200 is nothing more than having a 5 year old kid point and say "he's been mean to me" as the kid buries his head in his mom's lap.


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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2010, 12:45:52 PM »
Baka (Fool), otherwise known to the Japanese as the Ohka. (cherry blossom)

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I can see a lot of research went into this.
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The "Betty" we're getting in game is G4M Model 11 which was not capable of acting as the "mothership" for the Ohka.  The G4M2e Model 24 Tei was the only "Betty" variant to carry the Ohka as it was specially modified to do so. 

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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2010, 12:51:08 PM »
2600 pounds of explosive not deadly to shipping?  :rofl

Sure it is. But it had to be lugged by a bomber that had become pretty much outdated by 1943, let alone 1944, and during a World War a couple of years is an eternity for design and development.

The Mother bomber did its best work in late '41 and in '42. By the Spring of '45, when Ohka was finally ready, the Betty bomber was a sitting duck to the highly advanced defenses of the USN carrier groups. If they even had a land based strip to take off at in the first place. There were about 800 Ohka's built and to the best of my knowledge they only sunk 2 or 3 small ships, the largest being a USN DD. Well since the Ohka was being launched against a USN that had about 6800 combat ships, including about 161 CVs of all types, 377 DDs, 23 BBs, 72 CAs, 361 frigates, 2600 amphibs....ect I dont think they got very good bang for the buck from their little cherry blossom.

The Betty had to get about 20 miles from the CV just to launch the thing. Then it had to somehow avoid the CVs pickets, defensive fighters, AA guns, to get to line of sight where it could touch off its rockets. Its no surprise the thing was virtually useless in real life, "tho I dont doubt every 15yo in the game would love to get their hands on one". We dont need more ways to sink CVs. We need more ways to protect them from the fun Police.
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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2010, 08:16:41 PM »
For an excellent description of how the USN prevented IJN attackers from getting within range of US ships, read Barrett Tillman's book "Clash Of The Carriers", about the June 1944 "Marianas Turkey Shoot."  In that battle, carrier-based Japanese air groups suffered about 92% losses. 


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Re: How to make the Betty a real weapon.
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2010, 08:54:49 PM »
May I ask why it is that when ever the betty is brought up, some goof always asks for an Ohka???? its getting worse then nukes with a B-29
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