You ought to see these movies pertaining to fighter bombers!
Fighter Bomber (amiga)
I’m demonstrating the game by completing the first mission. One of few authentic flight simulators I’ve tried. I don’t have much experience in these games so can’t make comparisons about controls and such. There’s a “designer” option on the mission menu which is a rather limited, but allows to design custom missions. It’s possible to refuel in air during missions, but I haven’t tried that. I made cuts in the video during the mission at places where there’s just idle time and included the aircraft select, aircraft arming and mission screens. This mission took little over 12min to complete. Landing looks a bit funny, but at least I didn’t crash. You can pause the video if you want to read the details about my aircraft or the mission briefing. Online manual can be found at Lemonamiga. This game was emulated on default A500 config (how I used to play it) so framerate is somewhat crappy. Developer: Vektor Grafix Publisher: Activision (1990) www.lemonamiga.com
Cannon Fighter-Bomber: Mosquito with 57mm Autocannon
www.combatreform.org The British placed automatic-loading 57mm cannon in the nose of very fast, all-wood Mosquito fighter-bombers to attack U-Boats from a safe stand-off with devastating accuracy. www.ww2aircraft.net THE AIRCRAFT GUN The RAF then became interested in fitting the Molins Gun in the de Havilland Mosquito, to form an airborne anti-tank weapon to replace the Hurricane IID which had been equipped with a pair of Vickers 40mm Class S guns. The aircraft was duly developed as the Mosquito FB Mk XVIII, popularly known as the “Tsetse”, but by this time the RAF had lost interest in the anti-tank gun role so the aircraft were brought into service by Coastal Command for anti-ship (and specifically anti-U-boat) purposes. The Tsetse, of which about 30 were built, served with No.248 Squadron during 1944 and is credited with sinking a U-boat. Perhaps its most remarkable achievement occurred during an anti-shipping strike, when one Tsetse became involved in a melee with defending Luftwaffe aircraft. A Junkers 88 was careless enough to fly in front of a Tsetse, which promptly fired its big gun and demolished the Ju-88 with one shot! The Molins Gun, which was technically known to the RAF as the “QF 6 pdr Class M Mark I with Auto Loader Mk III” was based on the long-barreled (50 calibre) gun. The gun weighed 487 kg (635 kg with autoloader) and was fully automatic, with a rate of fire of about 55 rounds-per-minute. The ammunition supply in the autoloader consisted of 21 rounds …
WW2 Fighter Bomber (Part 1/3)
WW2 Fighter Bomber