Henschel Hs 129

[Krusty]

I think the 110Cs had a few instruments on the cowling of each engine. Maybe just oil or temperature dials, but they may have been supplemental to what was in the cockpit. On the Hs-129, the ones in the cockpit were outside the cockpit!

EDIT: Okay, it did have some inside. There were a trio of engine dials on each cowling as the main dials (no duplicates in cockpit) and the gunsight itself was outside of the windscreen.



But it did have some stuff under the windscreen. Compass, speed, etc.

[nrshida]

Um.... from the fact that they stopped building it. Do you know what cancelled means? It means "no longer wanted," "contractually discontinued," "production shut down, prematurely" or fill in any term you want to use.

Cancelled means no longer planned or scheduled. 'Discontinued' would be the more relevant word in this case.

[Tank-Ace]

Would there be any reason to take this over the b25H tho?
The b25 has a 75mm aswell, along with (what it looks like) better defensive power.

Im not saying it shouldn't be Added simply because theirs  something better already in game.
Im just thinking it may become the german Beau, in a sense that it'll be popular for a week, then be hangered for the b25H.

Because it fired AP rounds (would give 132mm penetration, like the KwK 40 L'48).


And even if the 75mm version didn't provide any real benefit over the B-25H, we need because it would provide the Germans with an effective straffer-tank buster, which they lack entirely.

Particularly needed for a Kursk scenario.

[Krusty]

Cancelled means no longer planned or scheduled. 'Discontinued' would be the more relevant word in this case.

Uhhh... nope. P-40 production was "cancelled" too... It's not a technical term. It's basic English. The airframe development was unchanged since almost 1941-42 and in mid 1944 it was cancelled. It couldn't compete and the over-running of the factory (limiting actual production) may have been the last straw. I don't know about the politics of the decision, but it was axed. Same as any number of planes in WW2.

Why try and spin it, to save the feelings of the Hs-129? 

[Krusty]

it would provide the Germans with an effective straffer-tank buster, which they lack entirely.

Particularly needed for a Kursk scenario.

As mentioned, the Hs-129 is not the solution to this problem. It was not the solution for the Germans, either.

[Guppy35]

It's ok to say it's a good looking airplane and you think it would be fun to fly in AH

I think that was it's biggest problem for real.  It looks better then it actually was!

[Krusty]

It's ok to say it's a good looking airplane and you think it would be fun to fly in AH

Yes, it's perfectly okay to say that!


But to claim we desperately need a 75mm PAK40 in-game to fill a gaping planeset hole? Not so much.

[Bronk]

It's usage in the arenas would be determined largely by whether it has F3 mode than any other variable.

Why? I flew the hurriD quite a bit before the 37mm were put on the IL2.... Tank plinking is addicting.

[Tyrannis]

Why? I flew the hurriD quite a bit before the 37mm were put on the IL2.... Tank plinking is addicting.

What you do =/= what everyone else does.

[Tank-Ace]

Krusty, why are you so emphaticly opposed to the Hs 129? It meets addition criterion, it would give us something we don't have (multiple things infact: a German anti-tank strafer, a 30mm Mk 103-using aircraft (making addition of other 190F models easier), and a strafer firing 75mm AP).


It seems your only reason for being aginst it is that it wasn't historicly significant enough to suit your own personal (i.e., irrelevent) criterion.

[Skyguns MKII]

Yes, it's perfectly okay to say that!


But to claim we desperately need a 75mm PAK40 in-game to fill a gaping planeset hole? Not so much.

never said that, was implying it was interesting, but I'm good for any armament killing tanks.

[matt]

+1  anything new

[nrshida]

Uhhh... nope. P-40 production was "cancelled" too... It's not a technical term. It's basic English.

That's the production, order or contract being cancelled. Saying the aircraft was cancelled implies it didn't it make it to the production phase which is incorrect. It's remarkable that you're so condescending to people about their 'basic English' when your command of it is so poor.


Cancelled (Adjective): No longer planned or scheduled.

Discontinued (Adjective): Permanently no longer available or in production.

http://en.wiktionary.org

[nrshida]

Is anyone else wondering who put Krusty in charge of vetting all Wishlist requests?

[Karnak]

Is anyone else wondering who put Krusty in charge of vetting all Wishlist requests?

Krusty can give his opinions as much as he likes.  HTC ultimately decides and we all know that.