Mosquito FB XVIII 57mm Coastal Defense

[pembquist]

OK Bozon you don't have an excuse anymore, get out your checkbook and start tooling up: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-40873628

[bozon]

Problem is the speed of the mossie, against a tank it will need a shallower angle than the IL-2 so it offset a bit of the hitting power. But just add it as an option to the Mk VI and let people decide for themselves what gun they want, there is no need to create a new model imo.

XVIII also added more armor to the mossie. I don't think the game can change that in the hangar. It will be relatively cheap to make this variant, since much of the 3D model will be identical to our VI.

[bozon]

OK Bozon you don't have an excuse anymore, get out your checkbook and start tooling up: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-40873628

I am already in the midst of a tree felling rampage for this project.
The estimated cost is 7m pounds. My kids are wearing rags, and I have eaten nothing but potato peels since August. By 2068 I should be able to afford it. 

[Lusche]

Yes it had to use AP to penetrate a U boat's hull.

Makes sense 

[bozon]

Makes sense 

Also,  you need an AP round in order to be able to hole the hull below the water line. HE will just explode on impact with the water.

[Zimme83]

You dont need to make the hole below the water line, any hole will make the sub unable to dive and thus be an easy target for the sub hunters..

[atlau]

You dont need to make the hole below the water line, any hole will make the sub unable to dive and thus be an easy target for the sub hunters..

Nonsense. The sub can actually dive faster with the extra 57mm holes!

[Zimme83]

Nonsense. The sub can actually dive faster with the extra 57mm holes!

...Cannot argue with that..

[pangea]

This....

Beaufughter first by far.  Hunt subs with 25Hs if you need a big cannon

[bozon]

Who said that the Beau and Mossie XVIII are mutually exclusive?
The Beau is my #1 on the list of planes curently not at all represented in AH (closely followed by the Whirlwind).

Hunting subs in B25... well, if the sub slows down enough, I suppose it is possible. But this is like saying "You don't need a Ferrari, you can just drive a Toyota pickup like ISIS does".

[DaveBB]

The B-25 was an incredible ship destroyer in the Pacific.  The B-25H was even equipped with a radar guided gunsight for it's 75mm in an experimental form.  It was extremely accurate.  In one test, the radar locked onto the steel mast of a ship, and it was severed with a direct hit from the 75mm.

But it still wasn't as effective as bombing.  A long straight cannon run left the B-25 vulnerable and at most allowed about 7 rounds to be fired.  The goal was to put out as much ordnance in the least amount of time possible.  Skip-bombing, para-frags, and 8 forward firing 50 cals were the best for that.  No reason to linger around the enemy too long.

[Vulcan]

The B-25 was an incredible ship destroyer in the Pacific.  The B-25H was even equipped with a radar guided gunsight for it's 75mm in an experimental form.  It was extremely accurate.  In one test, the radar locked onto the steel mast of a ship, and it was severed with a direct hit from the 75mm.

Sorry Dave but my BS meter is pegging out that radar story. WW2 radar was pretty primitiveThe 75mm wasn't gimbaled so how you'd "lock on" to anything is beyond me.

The only reference I can find too B25H radar is the AN/APQ-13 which could be used as a bombing impact predictor or for ranging adjustments where the radar operator made manual adjustments to the pilots gunsight based on the AN/APQ-13 data. The pilot still had to aim the gun using the aircraft.

[DaveBB]

I lost it in a fire, but details of the radar aiming system were found in the book "Warpath across the Pacific".  You are correct in that the pilot still had to aim the aircraft, but the gunsight was adjusted by radar.  It wasn't used operationally, just experimentally.

[RODBUSTR]

    To prevent damage from their own gun, The Minimum firing distance of the 57mm in the mossy was 600 yards.   I the plane does come to AH3 , It would be nice to be able to adjust the sights out to 1500 yards to try to keep It somewhat in line with a real one.... It would be nice for the B25H too.