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Offline steely07

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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2003, 09:56:14 PM »
Gotta agree with BlueDog and Halo :)
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« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2003, 11:21:44 PM »
I must've missed it too, so far I've seen no official conformation (i.e. From a HTC staff member, not from one of you bozos saying "Oh i head hitech say this, that, and the other online the other night") that subs will be in AH2.

Read 'AH2', thats the upgrade that'll be coming any day now, not some future version as was seen in Sabre's interview with HiTech.
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Offline Inferno

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« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2003, 11:42:16 PM »
Note that I said subs will probably be in AH2. Even then, a flying boat could still be put to very good use for anti-shipping.
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« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2003, 03:07:33 PM »
"Probable" is very stretchable. I guess the probabiliy is closer to 0.01 than 0.5.
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« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2003, 06:49:52 PM »
makes u wonder
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« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2003, 12:35:03 AM »
I'd like a Dornier
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« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2003, 06:37:13 AM »
To make more use of the Catalina/Sunderland/Emily, they should be the only aircraft able to mark a Subs last known position via some sort of marker buoy.  The buoy would show up on map indicating a sub there but would only last for, say, 30 minutes.  The sub would then have to dive and alter course to avoid any bombing! :)
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« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2003, 11:03:51 AM »
two words.


spruce


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Offline Sakai

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« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2003, 11:08:22 AM »
Flying boats could operate from ports and from fleets with a seaplane tender attached that once sunk would render such operations useless.

They would be capable of:

Troop transport
resupply
torpedo and bomb attacks

and to make them useful per their role . . .

how about radar for surfaced sub detection/fleet detection?

Sakai

Emily
Catalina
Sunderland
Herone
He-115

that would be a great planeset for "floaters"
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2003, 12:23:28 PM »
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Originally posted by Sakai

that would be a great planeset for "floaters"


Hehe .... not gonna say it .... :D

(But I agree)
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Offline Inferno

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« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2003, 02:20:37 PM »
I agree about putting dar on it, but I don't think flying boats were ever really used as goons.

I wonder if I'll ever see a 'floater' with the Libya skin...;)
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Offline Sakai

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« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2003, 02:42:35 PM »
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I agree about putting dar on it, but I don't think flying boats were ever really used as goons.

I wonder if I'll ever see a 'floater' with the Libya skin...;)


Flying boats were used as troop transports by all belligerents.  Nothing compared to their recon use or anti-sub use, but unquestionably they were thus used.  I have always felt though that smaller planes like the cat might not be thus used while the Emily and Sunderland (a derivative of the passenger "Empire Class" flying boats) most certainly should carry troops.

Sakai
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Offline bfreek

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yeah flying boats !
« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2003, 11:45:22 PM »
that would be soooo fun flying lazy 8s for hours on end hoping to find a nimrod in a 12knot sub trying to kill a task force ,, LOL.


cant wait if flying boats show up, take a 262 out with full tanks and  mess up someones 3 hr flight LOL.
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« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2003, 07:52:45 AM »
Cant Z 506




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Offline Sakai

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Re: yeah flying boats !
« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2003, 07:56:13 AM »
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that would be soooo fun flying lazy 8s for hours on end hoping to find a nimrod in a 12knot sub trying to kill a task force ,, LOL.


cant wait if flying boats show up, take a 262 out with full tanks and  mess up someones 3 hr flight LOL.


Oh,I think if a Mook wanted to cruise around the ocean in a 262 lookig for flying boats, he'd be more than welcome to.

I doubt they will be teetering around out there for hours, they will likely launch from CV groups and ports.  This would alow a 262 to fly through fleet ack, every Jet Pilot's dream.

;-)

Sakai
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