percivaldanvers Posted November 21, 2022 Posted November 21, 2022 The default loadout for the FW-190 A-8 in DCS has an empty bomb rack slung under the fuselage. Is there a reason for this? I would think this is normal in a 190 G or F, but in a primarily fighter 190 it's a bit bizarre to have that as the default.
Ala13_ManOWar Posted November 21, 2022 Posted November 21, 2022 (edited) The ETC500 rack was mounted on most A-8 (not so on earlier variants) even when not using a drop tank, bombs, or whatever the loadout. Why they did that, I wouldn't recall (it's said somewhere on the books, just don't recall) but probably just to avoid the inconvenience of mounting and removing it all the time since most flights would go with drop tanks at least. After all, you lose some 3-5 (or the like IIRC) Km/H with it attached, it's no such a big loss to compensate for the trouble every time an aircraft had to be re-equipped. I mean, they left it mounted all the time, but of course it was removable, just not worth it for them at the time. Edited November 21, 2022 by Ala13_ManOWar 1 1 "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice
Doughguy Posted November 21, 2022 Posted November 21, 2022 (edited) My gripe is with the inconsistency between dora and anton in that respect.. the anton has the rack mounted by default. The dora not. Same shenanigans with the saftey cover of the guns... dora lifts it automatically... anton you have to do it on your own.. Edited November 21, 2022 by Doughguy https://sr-f.de/
Ala13_ManOWar Posted November 21, 2022 Posted November 21, 2022 (edited) Dora was a fighter, A-8 not exactly . That's why. I mean, it's historical, that's how they did it. The safe guard thing is another story, same with 109, could be the same to all, definitely. Edited November 21, 2022 by Ala13_ManOWar "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice
percivaldanvers Posted November 22, 2022 Author Posted November 22, 2022 Huh looks like you're right. Looking at old photos of A-8s I see they almost all have the rack on. I forgot that was also for the fuel tanks. 7 hours ago, Doughguy said: My gripe is with the inconsistency between dora and anton in that respect.. the anton has the rack mounted by default. The dora not. Same shenanigans with the saftey cover of the guns... dora lifts it automatically... anton you have to do it on your own.. That safety catch has cost me many a kill 6 hours ago, Ala13_ManOWar said: Dora was a fighter, A-8 not exactly . That's why. I mean, it's historical, that's how they did it. The safe guard thing is another story, same with 109, could be the same to all, definitely. I mean the A-8 technically was a fighter. Maybe not a very good one depending on one's opinion but I guess more of an anti-bomber fighter than an anti-fighter fighter. 1
Ala13_ManOWar Posted November 22, 2022 Posted November 22, 2022 9 hours ago, percivaldanvers said: I mean the A-8 technically was a fighter. Maybe not a very good one depending on one's opinion but I guess more of an anti-bomber fighter than an anti-fighter fighter. Yeah, it was, just joking . The difference is Dora was a local defensive fighter so it flew shorter aerodrome defense missions mostly, while A-8 with it's 4 canons, and more sometimes, was a bomber interceptor mainly so it flew longer missions. Dora could use a drop tank and so it did sometimes (check Bodenplate pictures for instance, a long mission), but for the usual sorties flown probably they didn't use it most of the time, while A-8 used it almost always. 1 "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice
Gunfreak Posted November 22, 2022 Posted November 22, 2022 There's weapons readiness inconsistencies throughout DCS. Some fighters start in the air with master arm on, others don't. Some ww2 planes also start in the air completely untrimmed for the speed you are going. P47 airs starts are completely out of control. So just hope you don't start to close to other planes. i7 13700k @5.2ghz, GTX 5090 OC, 128Gig ram 4800mhz DDR5, M2 drive.
Bremspropeller Posted February 3, 2023 Posted February 3, 2023 The Dora had the lighter ETC 504 rack as standard and the Dora arguably had more range than the Anton - any actual difference is down to whether the 115l aux tank is used for MW50 (Dora) or additional C3 fuel (Anton). The Jumo should have better specific fuel consumption values than the BMW. I think (not 100% sure, though) the 115l tank could be used for either, fuel or MW50 in the Dora. Naturally, using additional fuel won't give you the benefit of the MW50 injection. A clean non-ETC Dora is mosly fiction. Here's hope of them fixing it. Together with the 3d model of the Dora. Spoiler The myth of Doras flying mostly field-defense missions is another one of those old tales that die hard. There were some of those missions, granted, but the overwhelming majority of missions was in normal front line fighter missions and jabo missions. 2 So ein Feuerball, JUNGE!
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