New Aircraft Types-Reconnaissance and Light Jet Attack
Jun 1, 2024 14:36:33 GMT -6
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Post by attemptingsuccess on Jun 1, 2024 14:36:33 GMT -6
Reconnaissance Aircraft
Historically Nations operated some number of reconnaissance aircraft on their carriers (Blackburn Blackburn, F4F-7, RA-5, D4Y at Midway). However, currently, in the game there is no such dedicated reconnaissance aircraft on aircraft carriers. Only surface ships and land bases operated dedicated reconnaissance aircraft. I propose a few ways to solve this problem.
1. Allow Floatplanes to operate on aircraft carriers
This is probably the simplest solution, and represents the fact that floatplanes and carrier recon were sometimes the same type of aircraft.
2. Create a new reconnaissance aircraft type, possibly with advantages to spotting (more accurate reports in location or fleet compositions)
This would allow carrier recon to have better performance to floatplanes, and allow the planes to have jet performance without giving surface ships recon jets. Furthermore, it would allow the representation of the advanced camera packages these aircraft have.
Light Jet Attack
RTW3 currently only has Jet Attack aircraft. This might represent something like the A-6 or Blackburn Buccaneer, which was fairly heavy and only operated from Supercarriers, but there were other jet attack aircraft like the A-4, A-7, and Super Entendard, which had no problem operating from smaller carriers. I propose a Light Jet Attack aircraft which has less bomb-load (4*2000lb 2*3000lb, instead of 4*3000 or 4*2500) than it's heavier counterpart. It also wouldn't carry HASM, instead carrying either 1 MASM or 2 LASM initially, with latter versions having 2 MASM, or possibly 4 LASM. It would have similar performance to its JA counterpart however. These aircraft would be available when you get Improved Jet Engines, with JA becoming available with a 1958 "Heavier Jet Attack Aircraft" tech
Historically Nations operated some number of reconnaissance aircraft on their carriers (Blackburn Blackburn, F4F-7, RA-5, D4Y at Midway). However, currently, in the game there is no such dedicated reconnaissance aircraft on aircraft carriers. Only surface ships and land bases operated dedicated reconnaissance aircraft. I propose a few ways to solve this problem.
1. Allow Floatplanes to operate on aircraft carriers
This is probably the simplest solution, and represents the fact that floatplanes and carrier recon were sometimes the same type of aircraft.
2. Create a new reconnaissance aircraft type, possibly with advantages to spotting (more accurate reports in location or fleet compositions)
This would allow carrier recon to have better performance to floatplanes, and allow the planes to have jet performance without giving surface ships recon jets. Furthermore, it would allow the representation of the advanced camera packages these aircraft have.
Light Jet Attack
RTW3 currently only has Jet Attack aircraft. This might represent something like the A-6 or Blackburn Buccaneer, which was fairly heavy and only operated from Supercarriers, but there were other jet attack aircraft like the A-4, A-7, and Super Entendard, which had no problem operating from smaller carriers. I propose a Light Jet Attack aircraft which has less bomb-load (4*2000lb 2*3000lb, instead of 4*3000 or 4*2500) than it's heavier counterpart. It also wouldn't carry HASM, instead carrying either 1 MASM or 2 LASM initially, with latter versions having 2 MASM, or possibly 4 LASM. It would have similar performance to its JA counterpart however. These aircraft would be available when you get Improved Jet Engines, with JA becoming available with a 1958 "Heavier Jet Attack Aircraft" tech
