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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: sharp8th on April 08, 2006, 05:11:39 PM
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v653/Mrusa/b25bank.jpg)
Engines: Two 1700 hp Wright R-2600-9 Double Cyclone fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radials.
Maximum Speed: 300 mph at 15,000 feet.
Ceiling: 23,500 feet.
Range: 2000 miles with 3000 pounds of bombs.
Weight: 20,000 pounds empty, 28,460 pounds loaded, 31,000 pounds maximum.
Wingspan: 68 feet, Length: 53 feet
Fuel: 692 gallons. Provison for one 420-gallon drop tank
Armament: One nose-mounted .30 caliber machine gun. Four .50 calibers, a pair in two Bendix turrets (one top and one bottom).
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its been requested before:rolleyes:
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its blue... do it have a tail hook and take off from a cv?
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i dont think so but it may have one
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I like it.
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On April 18, 1942 -just over four months since Japanese naval forces had bombed the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, sixteen crews led by then- Lt. Col. "Jimmy" Doolittle flew their B-25 Mitchell bombers off of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in the first strike against the Japanese home islands.
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The plane in the pick is not a B-25B, but instead a B-25J with the solid strafer nose (or perhaps the Navy version of the same thing, which they called a PBJ). It's missing its upper turret, which was where the white dot is just behind the cockpit.
The B model as used by Doolittle et al didn't have waist guns or a tail gun. Instead, the upper turret was back in the waist area, and there was a retractable ball turret below. But the Doolittle Raiders removed the ball turret and installed an extra fuel tank there. It did not have a tailhook, either, as it was never intended to land back on the CV.
I really want a B-25 in the game, and the B model would be cool. What I really want, however, is the D, which saw all the important action in 42-43. I especially want the strafer version with 4x50s in the painted-over glass nose, 4x.50s on the sides, a field-installed tail gun without the raised gunner position, and field-installed .30s in the small waist windows. Or perhaps a very late D, with the same nose, a single tail gun in a raised position with better field of fire, and 2x50s in J-type waist windows.
The reason I want a D instead of a J is that the D was faster and could fly on 1 engine. The Js like in the pic above couldn't maintain alt on 1 engine, which led to many unnecessary losses.
Back in AW, we had a glass-nosed J with 6x.50s fixed forward, plus a swivel gun for the bombardier. That was a good plane for furballing with all the gunner positions filled :). In WB, we had the H, which was like a J except it had 4x.50s and 1x75mm howitzer in the nose. In real life, however, the big gun was found rather ineffective, and the lack of a copilot somewhat risky, so they often replaced the 75mm with 2x.50s.
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Glass nose C or D version would be best as it was used all over the place from the Pacific to the MTO to the ETO with the RAF. Of course the modified 5th AF C/D strafers would be fun too :)
The skinners could have a ball. Desert camo, RAF camo, RAAF camo, all those 5th AF birds, etc etc.
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i think it will only be worth addin if it could come off cv. But like the doolittle raid it wont able to land on the cv. Was there ever a variant that did? A small bomber from a cv would be nice
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Originally posted by bkbandit
i think it will only be worth addin if it could come off cv. But like the doolittle raid it wont able to land on the cv. Was there ever a variant that did? A small bomber from a cv would be nice
Bandit not to be an ahole or anything but....
Pick up a freaking book! B-25 flew 1 time off a carrier. To do this they had to strip guns , lower ords load out so they could carry more fuel.
So what you want is a b-25 with about 1/3 the ords and no defencive guns.
Ya that would be used in the Ma a ton. AvA would be useless as well.
Bronk