Plane radar?

[Ack-Ack]

Only if it was implemented accurately and not gamey.

People want it for gamey reasons, if they truly wanted it for historical reasons they'd know (from researching) that it would gain us nothing over what we currently have. 

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[Stellaris]

The current radar we have is a kinda-sorta substitute for ground controlled interception.  The problem with getting into more realistic radar is that it spawns exactly the same never-ending war of ECM and ECCM that actually happened.  110s get Lichtenstein, so Lancasters get Window so 110s get Lichtenstein SN/2.  Mosquitos get Serrate to home on Lichtenstein so 110s change the antenna polarization.... 

Don't get me wrong, I think it would be really cool to get into all that, but I'm an electronics nerd.    There's a reason nightfighters had a second crewmember - making this gear work fully occupied the attention of a skilled operator, and I already can't manage to manage the bombsight and bomber guns at the same time, much less fly a fighter and tweak my superhet gain.  Beyond that, the typically large antennas had drastic performance penalties, which few MA pilots would accept.  I think the poor Mossie VI already suffers enough with the night-fighting flame dampeners on its exhausts.

[Karnak]

I think the poor Mossie VI already suffers enough with the night-fighting flame dampeners on its exhausts.

This has been addressed.  It no longer has dampers and tops out at 357mph on the deck, 19mph faster than the old dampered Mosquito Mk VI from before the graphical update.

[guncrasher]

The Lancaster's 'corkscrew' evasive would not be very effective in daylight, but at night it would drop the Lanc out of the radar's view or out of the pilots visual field and the nightfighter would have to start the hunt all over, essentially from the beginning.




Mosquito NF.Mk 30:
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and yet the lost how many every night?

semp

[Ack-Ack]

and yet the lost how many every night?

semp

I believe RAF Bomber Command suffered around 30% losses.  However, that doesn't remove the fact that the Corkscrew Maneuver was the primary and most effective defensive tactic employed by the Lancaster crews during their night time raids.

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