qcheck Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) There were 50 Mosquitos made for carrier landing. They were the MK35 type. They were on the way to Japan to help the war in the pacific, but then Japan surrendered before they could be used in combat. They had folding wings, and the same tail hook as the Fairey Barracuda. Some also had a a small "thimble" radar added to the nose (replacing the .303 guns but keeping the 4x 20mm), but I prefer the look of the smooth rounded nose. (Also had 4 bladed props if one must nitpick:) More info about them here: https://airscapemag.com/2015/07/26/secrets-of-the-sea-mosquito/ Maybe... at least add a tail hook option to the existing one for release? Please please I am so excited to fly the Mosquito, that I will be trying to land this thing on a carrier no matter what haha! Edited April 11, 2021 by qcheck improved the info 1
Bozon Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 (edited) I’d love to have the TR mk.33. About half of them ended up in the Israeli airforce as fighter-bombers. However, this is not the best choice of additional variants in DCS. It will have no use in WWII scenarios or any other for that matter. FB.XVIII tse-tse will be much more useful. If we go for night fighters, F.XIII or the later F.30, bomber versions B.XVI, or the older but classic B.IV. I will take any Mosquito that DCS decides to model - the more the merrier! Edited April 11, 2021 by Bozon 1 “Mosquitoes fly, but flies don’t Mosquito” :pilotfly: - Geoffrey de Havilland. ... well, he could have said it!
Mogster Posted April 11, 2021 Posted April 11, 2021 The main purpose of the Sea Mosquito seems to have been the delivery of High Ball in an anti shipping capacity. 2 carriers with High Ball equity Mosquitos were despatched to Australia with the intention of engaging the Japanese fleet. The concept of the RN rocking up late to the party and high balling the Yamato to the bottom seems to have been too much for the USN and high ball was never deployed... 2
bart Posted April 12, 2021 Posted April 12, 2021 (edited) 17 hours ago, Mogster said: The concept of the RN rocking up late to the party and high balling the Yamato to the bottom seems to have been too much for the USN and high ball was never deployed... I also recall reading in a Mosquito book that one reason for not deploying Highball was that they didn't want the Germans to find out the weapon existed as it was near the end of WW2 and the boffins thought that they could potentially develop a similar weapon and use it against the allies. Quote " Highball was curiously ill-fated, for it was never used mainly because of it's potential if ever the idea were copied by the enemy" Interesting..... Also apparently following the dams raid, the Germans were convinced a torpedo type weapon was used and not Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb, so the employment method for the weapon didn't become apparent until later on. Now if ED give us a Highball version of the Mosquito, how good would that be!? I can see the chaos now on the WW2 multiplayer servers, lol. What a unique addition to DCS it would be. Hope they consider it. Edited April 12, 2021 by bart 1 System :- i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12 core, ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A Gaming, 64GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200MHz, 24GB Asus ROG Strix Geforce RTX 3090, 1x 500GB Samsung 980 PRO M.2, 1x 2TB Samsung 980 PRO M.2, Corsair 1000W RMx Series Modular 80 Plus Gold PSU, Windows 10. VIRPIL VPC WarBRD Base with HOTAS Warthog Stick and Warthog Throttle, VIRPIL ACE Interceptor Pedals, VIRPIL VPC Rotor TCS Plus Base with a Hawk-60 Grip, HP Reverb G2.
rkk01 Posted April 12, 2021 Posted April 12, 2021 I’m assuming the physics, drop parameters, modelling and animations would be an absolute nightmare... Would also need some viable targets...! (which also comes back to the super accurate flak issue)
Mogster Posted April 12, 2021 Posted April 12, 2021 5 hours ago, bart said: I also recall reading in a Mosquito book that one reason for not deploying Highball was that they didn't want the Germans to find out the weapon existed as it was near the end of WW2 and the boffins thought that they could potentially develop a similar weapon and use it against the allies. Quote " Highball was curiously ill-fated, for it was never used mainly because of it's potential if ever the idea were copied by the enemy" Interesting..... Also apparently following the dams raid, the Germans were convinced a torpedo type weapon was used and not Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb, so the employment method for the weapon didn't become apparent until later on. Now if ED give us a Highball version of the Mosquito, how good would that be!? I can see the chaos now on the WW2 multiplayer servers, lol. What a unique addition to DCS it would be. Hope they consider it. The British were made aware quite quickly that Norm Barlow’s upkeep had been recovered intact after his crash near Düsseldorf and presumably dissected by the Germans. They Germans initially thought it was a fuel tank but soon worked out what it was... Upkeeps were tested on land with some success but high balls were thought to be an even better proposal. The real issue was that Chastise succeeded only by its element of surprise, the RAF was very aware than Germany was alerted to the concept and ready to defend against it making delivery very dangerous.
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