633 Squadron(1964): Mission To Destroy Rocket Fuel Factory | IL2 

The ones he does, we don't know about....

@@Thisandthat8908 I think Grumpmeister puts that on his channel

Grim Reapers!

Yeh bit strange...

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@@Michael-rg7mx Golden Eye?

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for immersion!

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This 100%

Lol most the details are well figured out and understood. They were guided via advanced gyroscopes, and one that cutoff the motor at a specific time. Germans were ahead in alot of electric devices, they were able to fuselage mount there weapons on most of there fighters and have behind prop guns, normally the us would shy away from that approach because you lose 25-40% rate of fire, the germans had a electric switch they came up with that cut this down to 5-10% max. They also inverted there v-12 engines inside there fighters, and the entire airframe was built around it being flipped, look at a dora from the rear, its wider on the bottom and comes to a point at the top like a pyramid, making the bottom of the figther smooth, this is something we actually didnt start paying attention to until gen 5 fighters, the advantages of a smooth underside, same with the bf 109s they were inverted aswell. Inverting the v-12s has advantages we didnt realize until years later, inverting them changes the gravity propertys and where things pool up inside the cylinders and everything, having it inverted had alot of advantages. But they also never really developed second stage cooler, like the merlin had. They relied on the mw50 alot, the mw50 also reduced the knock in the jumos. One of germanys earliest targets when bombing britain was a merlin factory, but luckily it never ended up getting hit. They luckily countered the germans radar just in time.

Gyros. Accuracy of 10s of miles!

@@profo4544 Well, the original reason for flipping the V-12 was ease of maintenance lol

@@5peciesunkn0wn Yeah, thats a big advantage, but i dont think the germans would design the entire body of a fighter around a flipped v-12 just because of ease of maintenane alone, maybe it started out like that in the early bf109s, but by the time the dora came out, its pretty clear they realized its advantages. Having a smooth underside i forgot to mention earlier helps with angle of attack, and aero wise helps all around. But the main issue with the jumos and the german engines was, for some reason they were 3 valve per cylinder, rather than 4, like we used. Now its clear they figured out 4 was the way to go, but they never got around to engineering it out. The dora was also supposed to come with a rubber spacer, that helped alot that didnt end up getting put in the production models, kurt tank was pretty mad about this when he found out. But i think the d-13s had the rubber part, and they also had hydrolic ailerons, giving the d-13s the rollrate of the antons, d-9s already had a good roll rate, the best way to beat a mustang in a dora is by nose countering, and using heavy rolling and rolling feints, i would pretend to cut left and roll into a split S, do things like that. Alot of quick moves like that a mustang cant follow and will overshoot. And like 1-2 shots from the 20mm the mustangs done. Mustangs it seems can get beaten up from the rear alot worse than other fighters because of the 2 stage aftercooler. I get into alot of arguments about this next statement, but the Mustang was never built to 1v1 any specific fighter.

@@profo4544 Well yeah, obviously they realized the advantages later lol. But at the start, it was far easier to shape the hull (chassis? body?) of the plane to the contours of the engine than try making a smooth reversal of the shape.

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Neg, that would just add weight.

Pretty much

Yes you did! LOL

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Correction, I put EVERYBODY in a bad light.

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