Author Topic: New CV Strike aircraft (only 2 choices) (Read 1011 times)

Dr Zhivago · « **Reply #30 on:** April 05, 2002, 03:26:57 PM »

Why use torpedos or bombs when you got Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-1 (Fritz X, PC 1400) air-to-surface missile

Dr Zhivago · « **Reply #31 on:** April 05, 2002, 03:30:29 PM »

Battleship after 2 hits...

brady · « **Reply #32 on:** April 05, 2002, 05:35:58 PM »

Well ya, their's always that but it would be to easy:)

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #33 on:** April 06, 2002, 08:35:44 AM »

well,anyway, bring the Helldiver here!!!!!!!!

brady · « **Reply #34 on:** April 06, 2002, 03:37:42 PM »

Grace a much better ride than a Heldiver:)

Bluefish · « **Reply #35 on:** April 06, 2002, 10:36:23 PM »

Tweeeet- Foul!!! Hey Zhivago, isn't that pic of a British battlecruiser (Queen Mary class?) sunk at Jutland by gunfire???

brady · « **Reply #36 on:** April 07, 2002, 01:25:12 PM »

The rake of the bow might be the giveaway.

brady · « **Reply #37 on:** April 25, 2002, 11:41:13 PM »

Shane · « **Reply #38 on:** April 26, 2002, 01:01:13 AM »

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Originally posted by brady
Realy it boils down to how well a plane would fit into the plane set and how usefull it would be in the MA and wheather or not it fills a hole.
Lets face it we will probably only get one shot at a Japanese strike plane in the near future, if were going to dream lets go all the way:)

yeah, what he said.

SELECTOR · « **Reply #39 on:** April 26, 2002, 01:42:52 PM »

i agree with bradys 2 aircraft....historicaly and for leathality:)

brady · « **Reply #40 on:** April 27, 2002, 12:42:01 PM »

Seriously why do we want to add a plane that is going to just sit in the hanger deck, if we get a jill, or a kate, the only people who are going to be happy about this are the US plane lovers who are looking forward to reliving the marians turkey shoot during some scenario that is going to play once a year. Their eys glaze over as they ponder the posabalities of diving into packs of heavely loaded and virtualy defensless Japanse strike aircraft.Why is it going to just sit in the hanger deck because anyone who wanted to optimise their fun is going to up a TBM instead,The Best Japanese strike plane is the Grace.We all live in the MA, or the CT that what we nead planes for not a once a year scenario.

gofaster · « **Reply #41 on:** April 29, 2002, 08:16:46 AM »

Grace, Judy, Jill, Val....whichever one will put out the most!

brady · « **Reply #42 on:** April 29, 2002, 07:32:31 PM »

Grace she is a free spirited fornactor if ever I met one...Can I say fornacator?

Professor Fate · « **Reply #43 on:** April 29, 2002, 07:58:37 PM »

Aichi B7A Ryusei (Shooting Star)
Allied Code Name: "Grace"

UNITS ALLOCATED
752nd and Yokosuka Kokutais.

TECHNICAL DATA
Description: Single-engined carrier-borne torpedo and dive-bomber. All-metal construction with fabric-covered control surfaces.

Accommodation: Crew of two in tandem enclosed cockpits.

Powerplant:
One Nakajima NK9B Homare 11 eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,800 hp for take-off, 1440 hp at 1,800 m and 1,560 hp at 6,400 m, driving a constant-speed four-blade metal propeller (B7A1 protorypes).
One Nakajima NK9C Homare 12 eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,825 hp for take-off, 1,670 hp at 2,400 m and 1,560 hp at 6,550 m, driving a constant-speed four-blade metal propeller (production B7A2).
One Nakajima NK9H-S Homare 23 eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 2,000 hp for take-off and 1,570 hp at 6,850 m, driving a constant-speed four-blade metal propeller (one experimental B7A2).
One Mitsubishi MK9A ([Ha-43] 11) eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 2,200 hp for take-off, 2,070 hp at 1,000 m and 1,930 hp at 5,000 m, driving a constant-speed four-blade metal propeller (B7A3).

Armament:
Two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 Model 2 cannon and one flexible rear-firing 7.92 mm Type 1 machine-gun (B7A1 and early production B7A2).
Two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 Model 2 cannon and one flexible rear-firing 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun (late production B7A2).
Bomb-load: one 800 kg torpedo or up to 800 kg of bombs.
B7A2
Dimensions:
Span 14.40 m
Length 11.49 m
Height 4.08 m
Wing area 35.4 m2
Weights:
Empty 3,810 kg
Loaded 5,625 kg
Maximum 6,500 kg
Wing loading 158.9 kg/m2
Power loading 3.1 kg/hp
Performance:
Maximum speed 306 kt at 6,550 m
Climb to 4,000 m
in 6 min 55 sec
Service ceiling 11,250 m
Normal range 1,000 naut miles
Maximum range 1,640 naut miles

Production: A total of 114 B7As were built as follows:

Aichi Kokuki K.K. at Funakata:
9 B7A1 prototypes (May 1942-Feb 1944)
80 B7A2 production aircraft (May 1944-July 1945)
Dai-Nijuichi Kaigun Kokusho at Omara (Sasebo):
25 B7A2 production aircraft (Apr 1944-Aug 1945)

Found it here http://www.combinedfleet.com/kaigun.htm

brady · « **Reply #44 on:** April 29, 2002, 08:16:02 PM »

Nice ty:)