Effective bomber hunting

[icepac]

For me, effective bomber hunting starts with watching the dar bars and which fields they came from.

If I see dar bars coming from high altitude fields deep in enemy territory, I watch thier progress to see if my country is the target and then send a 110g to 34k AFK climbing to where I am guessing the buffs will show up.

Then I come back and see what's around me within the radius of my range.

If done right, you can intercept most any plane with most any plane if you have enough altitude advantage.

A mossie at 39,000 feet has an amazing loiter time for higher or faster targets/ but it suffers pilot wounds easily as if had zero armor.




A 262 is fast enough once you get up there that you can catch up to someone's buffs and catch them unaware.

[Karnak]

A mossie at 39,000 feet has an amazing loiter time for higher or faster targets/ but it suffers pilot wounds easily as if had zero armor.

Mossie has armor.  I don't know where you got the idea that it didn't.  The pilot's seat is armored, the windscreen is bulletproof glass like almost every other fighter and it has an armor plate behind the instrument panel.

[Lusche]

Mossie has armor.  I don't know where you got the idea that it didn't.  The pilot's seat is armored, the windscreen is bulletproof glass like almost every other fighter and it has an armor plate behind the instrument panel.

"As if", not "as it"

[Karnak]

"As if", not "as it"

Touche.

[Drane]

Agreed mossie gets pilot wounds easy. Used to take them up for intercept a lot.

Then started getting pilot wounds nearly every flight against bombers up high. 

Below 22k alt mossie rules! 

[Rich46yo]

Im surprised im not seeing "K4" more here.

[Wiley]

Im surprised im not seeing "K4" more here.

Silly string dispersion at range, short clip, short legs.  If you're a 30mm master it might be ok, but I'd rather have something with a pair of 20mm or a bunch of 50s for multiple buffs.

The main attraction with the K4 is time to alt, and I've used it in the past to go after a buff I know is relatively low alt (10-15k) and inbound from just outside dar or so.  If they're high or you're just planning on going out looking for buffs that are likely to be out there, there are many more user friendly planes to use.

Wiley.

[Lusche]

I'm surprised I'm not seeing "K4" more here.

It's a great (and possibly the best) interceptor (Komet aside), but to me the term "bomber hunting" implies a different, more offensive way to prowl the skies in search of bombers, with enough time to climb before you begin your patrol.
In that case I prefer something with much longer legs and a larger clip.

[lunatic1]

to me alot of planes are good bomber-hunter/killer's--as long as you don't go in straight for their six