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Offline Vudu15

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B5N
« on: January 26, 2013, 05:34:34 PM »
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Offline Karnak

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Re: B5N
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2013, 05:32:50 PM »
I shot down a P-40 with the tail gun in a scenario once.  Probably surprised me more than him.

As to the bomb, it is 1760lbs and the way AH models AP it does 150% damage but has a much smaller blast radius of only 25% of what a GP bomb has.
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Offline Vudu15

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Re: B5N
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2013, 05:41:12 PM »
thank ya sir, I knew someone knew. Ive shot at a few folks with it never had much luck. :D  :salute
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Offline macleod01

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Re: B5N
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2013, 12:54:58 PM »
I remember I had a great laugh with a squaddie.

We upped B5n's, aiming for an adjacent field. Not looking to do any major damage, just out for S*** and giggles. Well we were going NOE over the water and had only been up a couple minutes when I spot this low con, just off to the left. So we laugh it off and say we'll keep going. Low and behold, its an enemy CV just off our coast!

At this we decide just to have a laugh and we try to grab some alt to go for a run on the CV. Well, no joke, about 8-9 cons up to intercept us, and they start tuurning the CV in all sorts of crazy manouvers! Manwhile my squaddie and I are laughing our butts off caus we are 2 B5Ns! We wouldn't even light up the CV let alone sink it!

Oh well, we got to 3K, Bang! Puffy ack took out my squaddie. I got to starting my dive before I was taken out by Ack!

We just reupped in D3A's and went and had a dogfight! We got slaughtered, but heck, it was fun!
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Re: B5N
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2013, 03:58:30 PM »
One thing I don't think many appreciate is that the B5N was the finest torpedo bomber in the world when it was introduced in the late '30s.  Better than anything we or the Brits had.

Of course, by 1943 it was completely obsolete and shot down in droves.
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