No, it is the Ar-234 B-2/N.
Ingame we have the B-2 without the night interceptor kit.
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“yes the night fighter has it but normal b2 can be uninstall these gun pods”
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Imo it should get the night fighger modifications as an unlockable mod, bc at least in air rb this plane even at 6.3 is mediocre
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the ar234 is not mediocre its just missing guns to defend itself imagine flying a plane and running out of ammo you still have guns but no ammo and suddenly youre just like the ar234 the thing is the ar234 is actually one of the fastest planes in 6.3 br at 2km it can hit 675kmh isa or 730km speed and it turns decently well it can out turn planes like the p51h in some cases
the f2g even super props and sometimes the spitfire mk22 or 24 the only real threat are the ones it cant outrun so if its fast and turns this good the only thing it really lacks are guns
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It seems that you are confused. No one is talking about the Ar 234 B-2/N nightfighter, the aircraft pictured below with the second crewman and radar:
The aircraft being discussed is the game’s current unarmed Ar 234 B-2 & its lack of a Waffenbehälter 151 mounted on the Schloßlafette 1000/500 XI B under its fuselage:
Notice the 2. Abwurflasten & 4. Lotfe 7 in addition to the Waffenbehälter 151. The Waffenbehälter 151 is currently found on the bombers Ju 87 D-5, Me 410 A-1/U2, & Me 410 B-1/U2 & could also be mounted to the Ju 87 D-3, Ju 88 A-4, & of course the Ar 234 B-2 (& C) in order to give them expedient armament:
Erich Sommer notably had one installed on his Ar 234 B-2b (again not /N) aircraft:
As for its effect on performance, an Ar 234 B-2 equipped with a Waffenbehälter 151 under the fuselage plus 2 x SC 500 under the engines would come out to about 683 km/h at 6,000 m or 723 km/h with just the Waffenbehälter and no bombs:
Finally, another (better) game even features it on its aircraft:
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no, the ar234 is quite mediocre, like on its best and most optimal bomb loadout it can only kill like 2/3rds of a base and gaijin also bugged it so if u take this loadout you dont spawn with the rocket boosters when you rearm, you only got speed but apart from that your kit is awful
ar234 is basically a Ju-288C but with an almost 100% chance to return to base safe and sound.
It is barely faster than said Ju-288C while loaded with bombs, but has no defensive armaments and almost NO payload.
Add the repair cost too, it can barely make 2-3k per base, can only kill base at a time if in a full downtier and has a +10k repair to make up.
Its better to just bomb, return to base, see if your team already won:
If team practically won = second run
If team still even near a tie = leave the battle
bombers with guns? I’m all for that, that stuff is hilarious
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Yes, but I don’t think that could be considered as an original document to let Gaijin accept, even though it is just a gun pod which has been tested on JU88
And we are still missing details( like how many rounds it has, the real size, and weight of it)
Haha, it would be hilarious, we’d just have to make an effort for Gaijin to introduce APHE 30mm belt for ultimate revenge against Yak-9K/UT CASsholes.
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Damn, Gaijin just accepted the report and then does nothing, and looks like we have 2 kinds of APHE：Community Bug Reporting System
Community Bug Reporting System
However, I don’t think only add MK103 APHE can solve the problem; Germany needs a maneuverable CAS which could also be used against enemy fighters, but most of the ideal planes are just plans or mock-ups( Gaijin nerfed DO335B and TA152C so now they are pretty hard to survive from SPAA and CAPs) I have try to explain that HO229 or ME262A1U1 could be 6.7 in GRB only, but Gaijin just don’t care
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335 is dead in the water vs 5.7 SPAAs, because Chinese 5.3 SPAA has insane ballistics and everything else surpasses Ostwind’s 37mm while having ROF exceeding 1000 RPM and Do is huge.
Yak-9UT can survive because it’s small. Dornier just dies on top of being premium.
C3 is overal a horrible plane, so yeah, things are tough.
After IL28/b57 move to 7.3, I think it’s time to let AR234C move to 6.7 in GRB as well, considering it can only take 3 bombs, without self-defense. But I would like to see BR extend in GRB as well, it is a surprise that after a few years, Gaijin extends the BR 3.7-4.3, maybe the next one should be 6.7-7.3, and then we can expect the German 6.7 lineup will get better CAS to support.
The new SPAAs, especially the Cold War SPAAs and full armor protect SPAAs make CAS by Cannon pretty hard, even for yak9k. After it moved to 5.3, I noticed that most of players will be shot down when they just get 1-2 kills, for 335, that might be worse, also like ME410 or HE219s
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20mm with ballistics surpassing MK103 (French dual 20mm truck, R3, SUB I-II, Amx 10P), 23mm that is also better than MK103, Soviet 30mm with insane ballistics and Chinese with like 40% more range than Ostwind and by far the best ballistics in the entire BR bracket. Everything one-shots. Everything but Soviet 30mm has insane ROF.
Cannon CAS works, but it got extremely difficult, unless you’re facing Germany, as German SPAAs have dogshit range, and Brits/USA.
I’m not sure if the belt bug still exists; all of the shells’ muzzle velocity depends on the first shell, and then the APCR belt could make MK103 superpowerful, recently When I was using Kugelblitz, I felt that is super easy to shoot down CAS with this belt.
The full armor spaa is still the best one against CAS, because they are hard to kill by cannons, even YAK9K needs to approach pretty close range to destroy them, such as Skink. rockets and bombs also need to drop very accurately to make sure they destroy that, so it is fair enough.
But to be honest, the CAS system damaged Germany so much, which made Germany spend the highest SP cost on those CAS as heavy as a brick
Kugel gets additional 100m/s but bleeds that velocity extremely fast.
With that added velocity it is still outranged by everything else.
9K has to hit Kugel’s turret, side or top. But yeah, it has issues scoring kills from 1000m away against it and Stink. This makes Kugel kinda effective. Still, compared to Chinese 5.7 SPAA, Kugel is a joke. That thing will just delete you from across the map.
But that is strictly a gaijin problem as they seem to apply defensive armament rüstsätze at their own whim…some planes receive their rear firing armament, others do not when they should:
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