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Can we have the B-58 Hustler as s full-fidelty module?

I find plenty of declassified informant available on the bomber online. While it never fire a shot in anger during its career life from 1960 to 1970, it would be a great plane because it was really, really fast for its time.

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B-58 looked great, fantastic era of aviation. And this otherworldly looking pressure capsule for supersonic ejection - when closed it still allowed the pilot to fly the aircraft. And it added whole lot of comfort in long flights as they can fly without pressure suits.

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18 hours ago, Mike Force Team said:

Can we have the B-58 Hustler as s full-fidelty module?


+1 I’d love to have it too, even if the current DCS maps are too small for a bomber:

 

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10 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:


+1 I’d love to have it too, even if the current DCS maps are too small for a bomber:

 

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For most bombers, but this is a more unique case. Late in the Hustler's career (owing to advances in Soviet high altitude air defense), their crews found themselves performing much the same mission as the modern USAF B-1B as they had had to now go low and fast. That really curtailed its effective range for obvious reasons. We're also talking a career on the shorter side, from 1960 until 1970. It was replaced by the F-111.

So of all the 4 engine bombers the US has flown, the Hustler might work on our maps.

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5 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

So of all the 4 engine bombers the US has flown, the Hustler might work on our maps.

there's only one tiny issue.... the USAF didn't give it conventional bombs. It was purely a nuclear bomber.

Now, that said... it was capable of delivering conventional ordinance. But the main mission for this thing was introducing cities to the Manhattan Project.

I wouldn't mind seeing it in DCS, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about it being in as a flyable aircraft. An AI asset? Sure. But I'm on the fence about flying something with such a limited mission scope.

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What about the Canberra bomber?

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10 minutes ago, PLAAF said:

What about the Canberra bomber?

The Canberra would be a better fit as it has a wider mission profile. It did CAS, it did strategic bombing, low altitude interdiction, research and development (with NASA), and of course, tactical nuclear deployment

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8 hours ago, Tank50us said:

there's only one tiny issue.... the USAF didn't give it conventional bombs. It was purely a nuclear bomber.

Now, that said... it was capable of delivering conventional ordinance. But the main mission for this thing was introducing cities to the Manhattan Project.

I wouldn't mind seeing it in DCS, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about it being in as a flyable aircraft. An AI asset? Sure. But I'm on the fence about flying something with such a limited mission scope.

As long as it had the capability to drop the ordinance, that's not a huge issue. As is the limited mission scope. Were that the case, we'd only be flying multirole and tactical fighters.

We've already got aircraft with limited scopes and focused mission sets. We have demand for things like the F-117 and WWII heavies, as well. The B-58 isn't so different in that regard.

7 hours ago, PLAAF said:

What about the Canberra bomber?

The Canberra would be an interesting choice, you'd just have to pin down a singular variant. What variant chosen would be very hotly contested as it was an extremely successful aircraft, even being one of the few foreign designed combat aircraft accepted into post WWII US service.

My own preferences would either want to see an early Canberra akin to what Commonwealth nations had or the B-57As that the Pakistan Air Force operated or the absolute insanity that was the B-57G Tropic Moon III.

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5 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

The Canberra would be an interesting choice, you'd just have to pin down a singular variant

Or you could go the Mirage F1 route and just have all of them

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3 hours ago, Tank50us said:

Or you could go the Mirage F1 route and just have all of them

While tempting, you'd be modeling wildly different cockpits between a B-57A and B-57B. It could be a limiting factor for some, is all.

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21 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

While tempting, you'd be modeling wildly different cockpits between a B-57A and B-57B. It could be a limiting factor for some, is all.

I mean, yeah, technically. But what the F1 guys did was have all the variants in game, but only a handful that can be flown. This way you keep the interesting ones flyable, and the 'meh' ones as AI assets.

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The Canberra would be a great addition, if for no other reason than the number of countries that flew it and the number of conflicts that it was involved with

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