Outstanding. Enjoy. Btw, I enjoy your channel, and at least some of this content either came from or was confirmed by watching your stuff. Thanks for leaving a comment.
Excellent. Thanks for the feedback. There are actually a few other podcasts on my channel - on a space theme though. Try searching on "Terranauts" if you are interested.
Great video, as always Iain. I was amused by the brief but clear reference to unguided musicians! Nothing a good conductor couldn’t sort out to give you the precision guided version 😂
Hey, they used to drop bombs from WW1 airplanes lol. Let's get a Gotha G.I in DCS! Then we can continue down the line II III IV V and so on and so on ...(thinking about it this is more a War Thunder thing..)
Did the Nazis use small aircraft in cooperation with ground forces out of preference, or just because they utterly lacked the resources to manufacture heavy bombers in any numbers? They kept making Stukas because they couldn't organise the large-scale production of anything better.
Minor nitpick: You say that the Luftwaffe was "pretty much the only air force that had developed" the tactic of using air power to assist troops in contact. However, after the first World War, the United States Marine Corps started using their aviation assets to make air-to-ground attacks in support of Marines on the ground in the portion of the "Banana Wars" that took place during this timeframe. And USMC began using dive bombing in Haiti and Nicaragua in this timeframe. And in 1939, the US Navy's General Board published that the mission of "Marine Aviation is to be equipped, organized and trained primarily for the support of the Fleet Marine Force in landing operations and in support of troop activities in the field; and secondarily as replacement for carrier based naval aircraft." I'm not saying that the US Marine Corps invented close air support. But it sure sounds like that's the case.
Can’t wait for the part where you cover dropping “unguided musicians”!! 😂 Really, though, this is great Iain, a great idea and very interesting. Thanks!
Thanks so much for your feedback. The response has been positive so I'm sure there will be more. Just have to do the research and figure out what to say next...
Great video, Iain. It shows that the simulators we have available today, with all their technical details, can be used as great educational tools as well.
Excellent video. You've set a high bar with your previous videos but this exceeds that quite handily. Really looking forward to the next entry in this series.
_Love_ this series! Great work! Thank you for making it! The evolution of airframes and doctrines over time is exactly what draws me to games like DCS (and War Thunder...). I just never had enough context to piece it together like this =). Cheers! Keep it up!
Thanks! The list of places I would like to see in DCS is long! Let's start with anything from the PTO in WWII especially the ones thay did ground attack. The A1 is obvious as the only true iron bomber in the US arsenal for almost 15 years after the war. I'm definitely looking forward to the A6, A7, and the Tornado as well s the F4E! I could go on. If it moved mud. I'd like to see it.
@@Sidekick65 The A-6 is a dream if it's come true. :) I wait for it since the Flight of the Intruder book. The Digital Integration Tornado was really really top notch in '93 especially the mission planning. I hope the DCS version can live up to the original. As a person from an ex-commie country, I still miss the Soviet types. The 50's and 60's strategic bombing not your cup of tea? B-47, B-52? Vulcan?
The strategic bombers would be interesting to see, but I don't think I would fly them much. The issue for Soviet planes is that the soviets more or less gave up on ground attack for a couple of decades, preferring to invest in ground based artillery and rockets to generate the same effects...
Yeah, they basically want every problem solved with tactical nukes on Su-7s. Even SEAD. But the Su-17, MiG-27, and Su-24 has the means. In the 80s i basically see the MiGs every day practicing their rocket, and bombing runs. My only hope is in some Indian team made it to the DCS.
@@tamasratkai1130 Those will hopefully be some interesting rabbit holes to go down eventually. If you know if any even semi "unbiased" sources about soviet CAS doctrine, point in that direction. The hardest part of doing anything about the soviet union is finding any source of useful information that remotely resembles the truth (from either side of the iron curtain...)
