CONTEXT: I’m not an expert but lately I’ve been researching skins for the H-5 so I can make a suggestion about them but reading the development and history of the bomber one thing that stood out to me was that it makes the distinction between the IL-28 operated by China and the H-5, the main cause of this was that China wanted to produce the beagle but the sino-soviet split happened and China opted for reverse-engineering and modifying the structure of the original aircraft which resulted in the H-5, in real life this led to a slightly better aircraft and this is where the differences start with the H-5 in-game:
Tail gunner turret:
one of the mentioned changes was the adoption of a different style turret, in this case from a Tu-16, in game this is not reflected and indeed this actually can be easily verified:
in-game:
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Wrong engine name:
currently in game is labeled as the Klimov VK-1, yeah I know this is a small detail but it still is wrong
Extra cannon and wrong avionics/bombsight:
now this is pretty hard to even get a single proof of the avionics and is even harder to get info of the H-6 bombsight but the claim of the single cannon on the nose seems to be true:
this is a screeenshot from Bilibili but other pictures seem to show that the right side of the nose is missing the cannon and is just a smooth surface, so this suggests that indeed the H-5 in-game has an extra cannon…and for more proof the romanian H-5R also has only one cannon:
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Cockpit is in russian:
pretty self explanatory, the H-5 is not an IL-28 it was produced by China for China so logically the instrument panel should be in Chinese not in Russian, I know that is not like it has a detailed cockpit but at least the text would have been nice
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the page also mentions that 110kg were reduced due to the change of the wing structure but I’m not sure how much this affects anything tbh, there’s also the mention of a drogue parachute but I couldn’t find a single image of where this parachute is or is it exclusive for one variant but a museum seems to have in display the parachute:
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in conclusion I don’t know how many different variants there are or earlier models and later ones that exist but it seems like the “H-5” in-game is very wrong and should be just called IL-28(China) but I want to read everyone’s thought on this, the H-5 should be slightly better than IL-28 but in game both are the same which doesn’t do any justice to the history of the aircraft apparently, there are other differences mentioned but they are unrelated to the game, all of this claim come from the book [魏钢. 中国飞机全书[M]. 航空工业出版社, 2009.] but of course I can’t get it.
