JocMeister
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Joined: 7/29/2009 From: Sweden Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Speedy Interesting finds JocMeister. How did your B29's do on defence against CAP at night? Obviously there's a load of factors involved (aircraft numbers and relative experience of both sets of pilots to name 2) but my latest night's raid on Tokyo was very interesting. I shot down 19 x enemy CAP for no B29 loss! This was when I raised my altitude to 20K (his CAP was lower). Only 1 night's bombing but also noticeably fewer hits on manpower and fires when bombing at 20K as opposed to 10K. Hope you don't mind me posting a segment from the CR! I don´t mind at all Speedy! Here is the disastrous raid on Nagoya: quote:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 61 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft J1N1-S Irving x 14 J1N1-Sa Irving x 23 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 17 Japanese aircraft losses J1N1-S Irving: 1 destroyed J1N1-Sa Irving: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged Manpower hits 4 Fires 2700 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 9000 feet * City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 2 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 9000 feet * City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 9000 feet * City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 9000 feet * City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: S-804 Hikotai with J1N1-Sa Irving (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead S-812 Hikotai with J1N1-Sa Irving (3 airborne, 9 on standby, 2 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 9000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 53 minutes S-851 Hikotai with J1N1-S Irving (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes Some CAP have air radar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft J1N1-S Irving x 6 J1N1-Sa Irving x 19 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 6 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 4 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-29-25 Superfort bombing from 9000 feet * City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: S-804 Hikotai with J1N1-Sa Irving (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead S-812 Hikotai with J1N1-Sa Irving (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 9000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes S-851 Hikotai with J1N1-S Irving (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead Some CAP have air radar So of the 40 planes that arrived 8 where shot down by NFs. Another 2 lost to OPS. I´ll try upping the altitude to see if I can get better results in survivability! Can´t sustain losses like that.
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