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Title: me 262s
Post by: glock89 on August 07, 2008, 01:45:09 AM
I know for a fact that me262s did carry bombs and drop tanks etc. So can we have them?
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Talon07 on August 07, 2008, 02:13:15 AM
Hmmmm.
The gods say try again later and by later they mean stop whining for it we'll get to it if we feel it should be in the game.
lol
regards FBClaw
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: lyric1 on August 07, 2008, 02:30:44 AM
I know for a fact that me262s did carry bombs and drop tanks etc. So can we have them?

Air to air rockets as well. http://www.stormbirds.com/warbirds/index.html
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: SectorNine50 on August 07, 2008, 06:18:52 AM
Oh man, organized attack runs with a bunch of 262's would be brutal...

Get in, drop ord, and get out before anyone can even get on the runway.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Karnak on August 07, 2008, 09:39:14 AM
I know for a fact that me262s did carry bombs and drop tanks etc. So can we have them?

I've never heard of Me262s carrying drop tanks and we don't have the version that carried bombs.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: VansCrew1 on August 07, 2008, 09:51:13 AM
I think the 262 that did carry bombs had 2 500kg bombs that were located between the cockpit and the engines.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Karnak on August 07, 2008, 09:59:08 AM
I think the 262 that did carry bombs had 2 500kg bombs that were located between the cockpit and the engines.
Yes, but not the version that we have.

And as I recall, the version that did carry bombs only had two 30mm cannons, not four.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: VansCrew1 on August 07, 2008, 10:04:00 AM
I think the 262 that did carry bombs had 2 500kg bombs that were located between the cockpit and the engines.
The 262 A2a carried 2 250kg bombs not 500. Also some carried 24x 55 mm (2.2 in) R4M rockets.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Anaxogoras on August 07, 2008, 10:14:27 AM
An Me-262 with bombs or air-to-ground rockets is an abomination. :mad:
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Krusty on August 07, 2008, 10:19:22 AM
The excessive drag from the radar array on night fighters, coupled with the back seat (which meant removing some of the fuel storage) I believe night fighters took off with 2 drop tanks mandatory. I don't know of any daytime fighters using them, though.

As far as I know, however, there was almost no difference between the 1 and the 2 models. I mean the "bomber" version had the racks under the nose to carry bombs, and removed 2 30mm guns, but other than that there wasn't much.

If HTC wanted they could add a weapons option in the hangar on the existing model we have without much problem.



P.S. The rockets were purely air to air, were very effective when used against bomber formations, and were NOT ground attack rockets. Just an FYI.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: lyric1 on August 07, 2008, 12:03:08 PM

P.S. The rockets were purely air to air, were very effective when used against bomber formations, and were NOT ground attack rockets. Just an FYI.
  Is this web site just showing a picture of the air to ground variant so you can see the difference of the two rockets or are they implying the 262 used both?  http://www.stormbirds.com/warbirds/tech_r4m_rocket.htm  Also some pictures of a b24 taken out by a 262 with air to air rockets. http://flickr.com/photos/21734563@N04/2113721262/in/pool-usaaf/
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Krusty on August 07, 2008, 12:44:30 PM
I don't know of any 262s making rocket attacks on ground targets, especially armor piercing rocket attacks on tanks, during the war.

Probably a comparison of a similar weapon used on a 190F or some such.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: NEARY on August 07, 2008, 12:47:27 PM
i doubt the me-262 had drop tanks becuase that would make the plane slower, and iif the 262 pilot forgot to drop them, he is ded. :uhoh
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Spikes on August 07, 2008, 12:58:37 PM
i doubt the me-262 had drop tanks becuase that would make the plane slower, and iif the 262 pilot forgot to drop them, he is ded. :uhoh
Where did you get this information from? If he forgot to drop them how would he be dead?
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: VansCrew1 on August 07, 2008, 01:47:03 PM
i doubt the me-262 had drop tanks becuase that would make the plane slower, and iif the 262 pilot forgot to drop them, he is ded. :uhoh

(http://www.seaviper.com/images/ah/Forum/Black4_JG7/black4_jg7_fb.jpg)

Notice the drop tanks. Pictures from "custom sounds and skins", just posted today.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Krusty on August 07, 2008, 03:30:24 PM
Vans, that's an artwork for the box of a diecast plane from a company that puts out highly unreliable paint schemes. It's a toy's boxtop.

Not a reliable source.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: VansCrew1 on August 07, 2008, 03:34:22 PM
ohhh.  :eek:
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Motherland on August 07, 2008, 03:38:00 PM
The only Me262 that I'm aware of that can carry DT's is the Me262B-1a (night fighter). The pylon on the Me262A-2a seems to be visually different from the ETC 503 pylon on the B-1a.
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: Spikes on August 07, 2008, 06:06:58 PM
Not sure if this is reliable or not, but here we go.

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[snip]...The first bomber units were Kommando Schenk, commanded by Major Wolfgang Schenk and formed from a detachment of KG51 and an experimental unit known as Kommando Edelweiss. The Me262A-3a had extra armour protection; the Me262A-5a was an armed reconnaissance variant with two MK108 cannon and two under-wing drop tanks. While the Me262A series had all been single-seat aircraft, there was obviously a requirement for a two-seat conversion trainer and this was met by the Me262B-1a....[/snip]

Looks to me as it was the 262-A5a, which is obviously not our model, that carried drop tanks under the wings, not the fuselage.

Source: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_me_262_peter.html
Title: Re: me 262s
Post by: sethipus on August 08, 2008, 12:18:56 AM
Oh man, organized attack runs with a bunch of 262's would be brutal...

Get in, drop ord, and get out before anyone can even get on the runway.
Half the people in this game can't dive a 262 without snapping the wings or wingtips off, what makes you think they'd do any better if the plane was diving with the extra weight of bombs hanging off them?

Still, it'd be interesting, especially the whole air-to-air rocket thing.  I say go for it, and let the wingtips fall where they may.