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Offline Butcher

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2012, 07:17:37 AM »
Yup.  Totally stayed away from the front lines.  That is why a squadron of Meteor Mk IIIs were posted to the continent and had numerous targets on the ground credited to them.

Yep one squadron extremely late in the war, when it could of been pressed into combat months before - funny part is Britain's Labor party gave the russians a copy of the  Rolls-Royce Nene engine when just a few years earlier didn't even want Meteors near the front lines in fear of the russians getting it.

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« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2012, 08:49:03 AM »
+1

But will add that Debrody is right.  Some planes need to be added before it.  Maybe a balance in adding them between candy (like the Meteor) and planes that had great historic significance.
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« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2012, 11:05:43 AM »
Gloster Meteor will eat all you children.  :aok
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2012, 11:51:16 AM »
Unless almost everyone that voted for the Me-410 in the most recent poll would have voted for the Meteor over the Yak-3, then we'll have to wait for the Yak-3 to be added first.


That or HTC could make an executive decision, like they did with the Ju-87G, and just add the sucker.


Either way, I would also like to see the Meteor, just later.

We still need a Russian level bomber, the He-111 (several models, preferably), a Ju-188 or Do 217, Cromwell or Churchill, an italian level bomber, anything French, a StuG III, Ki-43 and I'm sure others could expand upon this list.

In addition, we could really use a 109E-7, a Yak-7, Panzer III (several models), an update of the Fw 190F-8, some more EW vehicles, B6N, D7Y, Ki-44, 109G-10, BT-7, a split of the Fw 190A-8 into two models, an IAR-80/81C, a G.55, and again I guarantee others could expand upon my list.


And I still entertain hopes of getting an Re.2005 saggitario.

And update the B-26, and add a P-63
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« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2012, 12:00:50 PM »
Yet they still gave the Russians a copy their jet engine. That is one decision I never understood!

With that decision and the choices by Chamberlain before WWII, the British foreign affairs must of been run by the Marx Brothers prior to 1950.

Agreed giving our technology away never helped anyone; The Merlin Engine and Bubble Canopy especially.
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2012, 12:05:54 PM »
Agreed giving our technology away never helped anyone; The Merlin Engine and Bubble Canopy especially.

radar?  

we even let the Germans take a look at our gunsights prior to the war   :headscratch:  

too sporting us Brits...

meteor is definitely  needed for late war!  I find it totally unacceptable that we only have the Tempest and Spit 14 to chase germans with   :furious
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« Reply #21 on: June 05, 2012, 12:21:11 PM »
meteor is definitely  needed for late war!  I find it totally unacceptable that we only have the Tempest and Spit 14 to chase germans with   :furious
I hope that was only from irony....
Couse the tempy and the spit14 isnt uber enough...
Again, see my post why it would be super weird... this plane wasnt widely used... never seen any flying enemy aircraft.. yet it would be the best plane in game, whatever.
Arent there are enough other planes to add? (insert a disillusioned bitter face here)
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #22 on: June 05, 2012, 12:36:41 PM »
Can i see where the Meteor was made to attack V2s?



I thought I had them mixed up.

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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2012, 01:11:57 PM »
radar?  

we even let the Germans take a look at our gunsights prior to the war   :headscratch:  

too sporting us Brits...

meteor is definitely  needed for late war!  I find it totally unacceptable that we only have the Tempest and Spit 14 to chase germans with   :furious

I read that the Japanese Navy learned so much from the RN that orders were given in English on the bridge (maybe this was only early war)...

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« Reply #24 on: June 05, 2012, 01:23:23 PM »
... it would be the best plane in game, whatever.

I suspect it would be a bit of a handful to fly, rather like the AH mossie was before it was remodelled. a complete lack of yaw stability at combat speed doesnt help gunnery much ...
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« Reply #25 on: June 05, 2012, 01:35:08 PM »
radar?

jet engines? PT boats? computers? penicillin? supersonic flight?

and then we got to pay the bill! :bhead
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #26 on: June 05, 2012, 03:46:58 PM »
Yep one squadron extremely late in the war, when it could of been pressed into combat months before - funny part is Britain's Labor party gave the russians a copy of the  Rolls-Royce Nene engine when just a few years earlier didn't even want Meteors near the front lines in fear of the russians getting it.


All true.

I read that the Japanese Navy learned so much from the RN that orders were given in English on the bridge (maybe this was only early war)...

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That sounds like it would have been more circa Russo-Japanese war when the IJN was in its infancy.
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #27 on: June 05, 2012, 07:14:59 PM »
up a 262 to fight the 262, you will do better than with a Meteor anyway. . .

there have been better arguments for the reason to put the meteor in than 'to fight the 262'
does "because i like shootieshootie boomboom" apply?
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #28 on: June 05, 2012, 10:34:58 PM »
up a 262 to fight the 262, you will do better than with a Meteor anyway. . .

there have been better arguments for the reason to put the meteor in than 'to fight the 262'

As soon as the 262 gets below 450 mph and turns it is toast.  The Mk III Meteor has everything on the Me262 save for top speed, iirc.
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Re: Gloster Meteor
« Reply #29 on: June 05, 2012, 10:43:39 PM »
top speed, diving capabilities, climb rate, and firepower IIRC (30mm's are better at high speeds IMO, due to the better snap shot, although a Mk 103 probably would have been better than the Mk 108).


In other words, the Meteor III out turned the 262 at lower speeds.
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