Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

With the scale I'm using the difference in size is not really all that much even though the wingspan is 18 feet less for the ANT-7/R-6 vs the TB-1

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...1&d=1609783890

and when all is said and done what's really been added to the game ? The R-6 was a recce aircraft but not an artillery spotter as we use them in the game. There was an ANT-18 ground attack version but info on that is sparse ( but as it's referred to as "ANT-18" it suggests this never reached production ).

I did find mention that the bomb load was only 113.4 kg (250 lb) of bombs.....that's hardly a game changer and that's the same bomb load as the Polikarpov R-5 that's already in the OOB. If flight range was important in the game then that would make it useful but we don't and in the end there would be two aircraft from the early 30's nobody will use instead of one that both look more or less the same but one has 1/8th the bomb load

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...1&d=1609783746


EDIT........https://www.globalsecurity.org/milit...ssia/ant-7.htm

if that is true then maybe....**Maybe** it might be worth putting into the OOB....maybe .....as a "light bomber" in UC44 where it *might* get some use.

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

Great that you prepared this smaller version even if is probably not worth the burden in game terms. Too early and to small difference to other soviet OOB's aircrafts :up: but if you talked about this meaby:

of course bomber until 1935/1936 which is just another not so different version of TB-1 but after that propostion as a transport (paratrooper aircraft in game terms) :?:

from https://www.globalsecurity.org/milit...ssia/ant-7.htm
R-6 will be great aircraft to use in this discuses earlier in this post scenario of supply soviet partisans if was important as a gilder tug and aircraft which carry small detachment of paratroopers or carry ammunition supply canisters to drop them for partisans units. Especially in early times of soviet supply missions around Moscow in 1941/1942 Vyazma operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyazma_airborne_operation until 1943 partisants supplly in Byelorusia when more Li-2 were introduced and probably R-6 were relegated to duties far from front-line Siberia and Arctica.

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

Just for fun........

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...1&d=1609845555

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

NO..... NONE of those uses are supported in the game and we're not going to add them. There is no evidence to support the idea that they carried paras. By that time there were far more capable aircraft available for that. We don't include glider tugs or air landings in the game so the aircraft may have been used that way but we don't use them in the game and that is not going to change

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

Since we're now talking old Soviet stuff:

https://desantura.ru/articles/16/?SHOWALL_1=1

So basically, looks like if you're simulating late 1930s airborne operations, you have to have your heavy stuff unloaded on the ground after an airhead is captured (Shades of 1950s US Airborne concepts).

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

More likely, the '50's concepts were reused 30's concepts with new equipment added

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

Dig through your Russian Books and tell me if the Soviet Bt-7A was used as SP-Arty firing indirect one source I saw ( https://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/w...-Artillery.php ) didn't specially say they fired indirect but that the gun .........and you don't (normally) see references to arcing shells 4,200 meters for direct LOS firing

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

I haven't information about that BT-7A were use in indirect fire or not but d'like to mention that in http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=51835 are new icons for BT tanks and I rember that I created new icon of BT-7A tower based on tower schematics which maby beter than this used now in this tank there is even this experimental variant BT-7 with 76mm F32 if you dlike fine tune BT-7A inside game :D

https://i.imgur.com/7cfOqWB.png

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

Yes I know all about your BT extravaganza and three of the four SHP files are now in the game and when I find an icon or unit that I feel should be added to the OOB's it goes in and the 7A was one of them and why I started asking about its use as SP arty as the wording of some of the descriptions of its use seems to suggest it was.

Re: Soviet OOB11 - 2020
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzpom1gZcag

The whole video is good but watch starting around 4:40....... Tank crewman is a hazardous job on a good day...worse when the powers that be need to prove something ridiculous that also needs to be recorded for posterity