Hello all fellow players!
getting tired of the same old battle?
Look no further!
Join War Thunder Operations on discord!
What we do: Re-create historical battles during the Second World War using era appropriate vehicles in matches designed to be historically accurate, providing users with the ability to fight alongside ground, naval and air vehicles in the same map!
Each map is meticulously designed to be the actual representation of the battlefields that were fought over.
Voice chat is required as teamwork is a key component to victory!
We are currently looking for Luftwaffe Bomber pilots to face off against the RAF, however there are RAF slots available!
If you are interested, please take a look at the Discord link provided for any further information!
Hope to see you all in the server!
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@FlyingOstridge check this out
So you are looking for something like this:
…in order to transform them into this:
Good luck with your search!
Btw - historical reenactments would require also historical settings of gun convergence - doesn’t matter if you play with RB or SB settings. 250 yards (=220 m) was used during the BoB…
Quote and source:
Originally it was 400 yards,though I’ve not seen an original reference for this. This had been reduced to 250 yards by the BoB
Here’s what Dowding had to say,
"A great deal of discussion took place before and in the early stages of the war as to the best method of harmonisation of the guns of an 8-gun fighter: that is to say the direction, in relation to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, in which each gun should be pointed in order to get the best results.
There were three schools of thought. One maintained that the lines of fire should be dispersed so that the largest possible “beaten zone” might be formed and one gun (but not more than one) would always be on the target. The second held that the guns should be left parallel and so would always cover an elongated zone corresponding with the vulnerable parts of a bomber (engines, tanks and fuselage). The third demanded concentration of the fire of all guns at a point.
Arguments were produced in favour of all three methods of harmonisation, but in practice it was found that concentration of fire gave the best results. Guns were harmonised so that their lines of fire converged on a point 250 yards distant: fire was therefore effective up to about 500 yards, where the lines of fire had opened out again to their original intervals after crossing at the point of concentration."
Found here: R.A.F. main fighters gun convergence | Aircraft of World War II - WW2Aircraft.net Forums
And btw - iirc correctly there were just cannon 2 Hurricanes active, no Whirlwinds in the BoB and just ~ 25 of all Spits were Mk Ibs…
Have a good time!
In case you plan to perform night battles - announce it in the forum. I would be actually interested to fly a 177 at night - coming in alone via Ireland at 9.000 meters and crossing the British Islands with 700 kmph TAS.
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This made me laugh way too hard
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Look at the server for yourself.
In fact we are doing a night raid as well.