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Offline Sachs

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« on: September 23, 2002, 09:12:57 AM »
Just curious I have seen 1 in 2 months.  LOL this new bomber system just killed another buff.

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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2002, 10:01:46 AM »
The point I am trying to get at is this.  I used to see a ton of these and I used to use it all the time.  It has a 3k load which isnt shabby and a flight of these could do some serius damage to a base.  Now I don't see them and is a totally different AC than the mossie.  Before the new buff system I would spend 75% of my time in the 234 now I haven't taken one u for 2 months now.  Pointless to go in at 200 mph when it is a perk ride.  I like the new buff system but it has made the 234 useless now.  If we got a dive bomb site for it I might use it more often or reduce the price.

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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2002, 10:09:18 AM »
The arado needs its glide bomb site. Its periscope was used as a glide bomb site as well as to check 6

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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2002, 01:46:12 AM »
I think there's a bug with the arado that it can't take off without losing it's two drones. I could be wrong though, as I don't fly them often. Can anyone else comment on this?

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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2002, 02:44:18 AM »
What Wotan said.

Most Ar234 pilots drop their bombs by entering a shallow dive, very seldom they where doing level bombing.

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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2002, 05:47:18 AM »
there are fighters that carry as much ordinance as that thing.
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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2002, 06:31:04 AM »
Actualy they were used In mass quiet often, KG 76 almost always sortied the whole unit for the raids it undertook.

 Also They rarely used the leval bombing sight( the Lofte 7K), instead prefering the the use of the:


 "The AR 234 had a complex bomb-aiming system. For shallow dive attacks the PV1B sighting head was used, this being situated in the RF2C periscope above the cockpit, which could also be rotated aft to sight for the defensive cannon. The correct sighting angle was fed to the PV1B by the BZA 1 bombing computer."

 The reasion for the preferance for the shalow angle dive bomb sight were accuracery and safty. The piolets considered it safer to get in and out of the target area at speed.

 This is one of the wounder weapons of the war gents, it Beauity lies in it's speed, it is a plane that was designed to get in and drop it's bombs and not be intercepted, curently this simply is not the case to have any hope of hitting you nead to slow way down thus removing the historical aspect of this aircraft compleatly.

 The lack of the dive bomb/ rear gunsight on the AR 234 is roughfly comparable to not having hooks on Carier airplanes, or Rockets on The P47 or P 51, or a bomb sight on a B 17.

 The AR 234 is our one and only Perk bomber I do not think asking to much to have it modeled coretly. It's not like were asking them to do the drage chute or anything:)
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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2002, 06:41:09 AM »
Cool Pic: