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should’ve hit them with the soon tm smh
Are there going to be vehicles that are named after insects?
Was about to ask, any Dutch surprises ? I’m really loving the D.23. I’ve just had a 3 kill match lol
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Cannon variant of the Wasp please : P
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Norge, Sverige, Finland og Danmark (my home) we all had them!!
Sorry im translating Danish papers to english for people to read on my Danish air forum rn sorry about the wait.
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HMS Ant
U.S.S Beetle
Actually i wasn’t far off.
Summary
Ships
The Royal Navy’s Insect-class river gunboats were a class of twelve shallow-draft, well-armed vessels used during the First and Second World Wars, primarily on rivers like the Danube, Tigris, Euphrates, and Yangtze. Each ship in the class was named after an insect or arachnid:
- HMS Aphis
- HMS Bee
- HMS Cicala
- HMS Cockchafer
- HMS Cricket
- HMS Glowworm
- HMS Gnat
- HMS Ladybird
- HMS Mantis
- HMS Moth
- HMS Scarab
- HMS Tarantula
The US Navy has also had multiple ships named USS Wasp, the name being a reference to a stinging insect.
Tanks (and other Armored Vehicles)
Several German self-propelled guns (SPGs) and other armored fighting vehicles during World War II were given names derived from insects or related creatures:
- Hornisse (Hornet) - a tank destroyer (later renamed Nashorn, meaning Rhino)
- Wespe (Wasp) - a self-propelled howitzer
- Grille (Cricket) - a self-propelled howitzer
- Hummel (Bumblebee) - another self-propelled howitzer
- Flamingo - a flamethrower tank variant (though ‘flamingo’ is a bird, it was listed with the insect/animal names)
Planes
A vast number of aircraft have been named after insects, largely due to the pioneering aircraft designer Geoffrey de Havilland, who was an avid lepidopterist (moth and butterfly expert).
De Havilland “Moth” series:
- DH.60 Moth (Gipsy Moth, Hermes Moth, Genet Moth, etc.)
- DH.61 Giant Moth
- DH.75 Hawk Moth
- DH.80 Puss Moth
- DH.82 Tiger Moth (a famous WWII trainer aircraft)
- DH.83 Fox Moth
- DH.85 Leopard Moth
- DH.87 Hornet Moth
- DH.94 Moth Minor
Other aircraft names:
- De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (a highly versatile WWII combat aircraft, nicknamed “the Wooden Wonder”)
- De Havilland Hornet and Sea Hornet fighter aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (a modern US naval fighter jet)
- Cessna A-37 * Dragonfly* (light attack aircraft)
- Ryan YO-51 Dragonfly
- Westland Dragonfly (helicopter)
- Fairey Firefly (WWII naval fighter)
- Folland Gnat (jet fighter/trainer aircraft)
- Aeronca L-3 Grasshopper (WWII liaison aircraft)
- Northrop P-61 Black Widow (WWII night fighter)
- Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk (drone, T-Hawk standing for T-Hornet, though technically an arachnid)
- The V-1 flying bomb was colloquially known as the “doodlebug” or “buzz bomb” in the UK, after common flying insects.
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Can i expect more Danish stuff or ask you to ping me if something danish arrives?
Hmmm not sure about that
Torpedoes tend to be quite mean these days.
“Nice armor you have there, now let me just ignore it all and cut your keel in half by going straight under”
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Example
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They can be intercepted in flight still.
Not easy to do in real life, but with a competent crew you’d better be against an AShM than a torpedo
Yeah
and the french version x)
They don’t necessarily have more explosive then the WWII ones, but exploding under really makes the difference.
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KC-135 when
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Yep. It’s basically:
“So- metal boom thing hits big metal thing” VS “let’s use water’s own scary physics to tear the fabric of reality on big metal thing”.
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Can Gaijin add some kind of pop-up in ground battles reminding people that going to the enemy spawn is a bad idea?
If players choose to spawn camp and end up getting killed by someone who’s invulnerable for about 10 seconds, more fool them
True
But I’m sick of constantly losing because my team just caps one point and then runs into the enemy spawn, only to get annihilated in a matter of seconds
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I didn’t even know what that was to be honest.
In sim enduring confrontation it would be cool to have tankers flying around and letting you refuel in the air, but sim doesn’t get any love so that won’t happen
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HMS Abercrombie when?
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