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[Knochenlutscher]

freaky AI Fulmar snapped in a Head-on attack, sth. went stiff there after, landed and got told I have sth. missing



Ultrapacks new features brought life into some of my Fun Offline Missions, good old times, mass scramble, Yeah, Baby





Clowns beating up dust in our New Years Session, was wonderfull to watch

[Knochenlutscher]

Holy crab


Lasers, X-4, Reichsstahl, Elfensperrholz, fancy stuff, good weapons aren't easy,
or was it the other way around easy weapons aren't good... Yeah

Head on Bomber attack, muah boring
Using Guns and Cannons, sleepy well

Kommando Stamp Me262 drop AB 250/500 Bombs air-to-air
WfrGr.21 air-to-air

Until you went for using Krebsgerät

No sight, no clue, just a universe of guess
such a stupid weapon, but we aren't Il-2 1946 if we can't get fun

after 40 retries I stopped counting reflies,
I messsed up the overfly, due to another attempt, frustration grown, overfly must be perfect, perfect hair, combed,
trim, watch Instrument, heck you're
trying the most stupid weapon for precision I don't know
AI whiggled, I pulled slightly left and said "screw this", it not gonna explode near them

What ?
The explosion tipped his right wing, down he went,
such a bad attempt, shot from a stupid angle, approach overpass,
AI started whiggling, had to avoid collision, then banked slightly left,
frustration, estimated 70 tries and no damage done, hit the button, from a stupid
offset position, pure luck...

Settings 200m 0.5 Secs, Must be different to your usual 600m 21cm Setting w. long delay fuze.

[SAS~Storebror]

For those not in the know:
The "Krebsgerät" (crab device) was a single rearward firing WfrGr.21 rocket fitted under Fw 190 A8 fighters.
Never used operationally, it was one of the brain farts where theory never matched reality.
In theory, the device would fire automatically while the Fw 190 would perform a head-on pass, flying above the targetted bomber with just some tiny altitude difference.
The speed differences would almost equal the rocket's speed, thus negate each other, and the rocket, exploding 1.5~2 seconds after launch, would "almost certainly" hit the target or explode nearby.

In reality, it was impossible to aim and judge the target speed or altitude difference accordingly, and since the fighter would have to fly a straight line across the enemy bomber, it was deadly - for the fighter, not for the bomber, because like Tobi witnessed, the crab device usually proved to be a crap device and simply miss the target with a 99%+ probability.


Mike

[Knochenlutscher]

Cool Info, Thanks a lot
That precisely I didn't knew this.

Yeah, since Installation of a block of four RPzB.190 / 54 "Panzerschreck" anti-tank grenade launchers under the wing of the Fw-190F fighter Tests
they found a fart fact for Rocket use:
During the tests, it turned out that for the targeted launch of projectiles, the attacking aircraft had to move at a speed of about 500 km / h, otherwise the missile was off the trajectory.
To withstand such a high speed at the ground and at the same time to carry out the launch of rockets in some one and a half hundred meters from the target, only a real aces could do it.
As a result, the tests were considered unsuccessful.

500, I reached that two times, when coming from high, Nuts
High speed=nano mil window of success, that's impossible in my universe, current skills   

Is a Beginners friendly Weapon to create, I start with the Launcher, the rest is already ingame.
It will take a while to create the Krebsgerät, it's my first open Mesh. Prepped my Lappi here,
just have to tackle the Mesh Exporter, it's been a while since used 3-D.
Tried out Blender lately, but I don't like the GUI/menu there, it's complicated like Gimp.
But it's fun to create it, lots of fun I dare to say

 

[Knochenlutscher]

My very first successfull mapping attempt

with E2 Type Drop Tank

[Piotrek1]

Congratulations Tobias, very nice presentation , I would also like such in Vp modpack ,

Best Regards,
Piotrek

[urmel]

It looks very good !!!

[Knochenlutscher]

Thank you, 

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

My very first successfull mapping attempt

with E2 Type Drop Tank

......

Congratulation!

Very good shape!

[Knochenlutscher]

need to reupload my Screenshots again, gone missing, Ugghhh













some stuff in the works, old stuff, ideas, finally got karma, nerves, time, whatever
to pick these up.

[Knochenlutscher]

ye olde ETF-51D converted to fit BAT, on the first Deck Landing aboard a Essex Class carrier.

[Knochenlutscher]

USS Enterprise CV-6 and Catapults

pre 1943


seldom used, required relocation of 2-3 wires to use the original catapults.

This setup I did for fun, with forward wires still there, a fun work around.
USS Yorktown and Hornet, also seldom used,
but they can be used too. Have a slightly different catapult layout.

I decided to tinker with the 1944 state of art, removing the 7 forward arrestor wires
and install their post-Midway until March 1945 refitting of Catapults.







This depicted Catapult is one of 4 used on Big E, 42, 43, March 45 repairs, April/May 45 another repair
The last 3 are looking similar, instead doing 2 silly clones I decided the 44 is enough to showcase this.