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ORIGINAL: phatstar

Hi, Guys-
Looks like the KA-3B Navy version cannot act as a tanker like the KA-3B MC version (the Navy seems to be missing the "Wing Drogue" property entry).

Also, my reading of the EKA-3B is that it can do both offensive ECM as well as act as a tanker, but the database loadouts seems to only permit one or the other (source: footnote 10 at the A-3 Wikipedia page).

Thanks!

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ORIGINAL: PN79

Hello,
can you please add late 1940s to early 1960s british Type 13 radar height finder as sensor? It was used by the United Kingdom and West Germany and usually accompanied british Type 80 long range radar. Some data:

Maximum Range: 100 to 150 miles
Frequency: 3 GHz (10 cm)
Radar Horizontal Beam width: 4 to 7.5 (sources disagree)
Radar Vertical Beamw width: 1 to 1.5 (sources disagree)
Radar Peak Power: 500 Kw
Radar Pulse Width: 0.6 to 1.9
Radar PRF: 250 to 500

nodded vertically from -1° elevation to +20° elevation
6 cycles per minute

Sources:
http://www.radarpages.co.uk/mob/rotor/type13.htm
http://www.ventnorradar.co.uk/Type1314.htm
http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/BTNeale2.htm
http://martinshough.com/aerialphenomena/Lakenheath/radarspecs.htm
http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.cz/2009/12/radar-equipment-at-top-site.html
http://www.radartutorial.eu/19.kartei/karte809.en.html
http://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?http&&&www.usarmygermany.com/USAFE%20TACS%201A.htm

Thanks in advance.

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ORIGINAL: SeaQueen

I noticed the SR-71 in the database only had military power, not afterburning power. I wasn't sure if there was a reason for that, if it it was an oversight.

Also, the number of bases in the CONUS and continental Europe is quite small. There are not a lot of bases used by the USAF in Spain, for example. With mid-air refueling now a reality, those sorts of bases become important because they were very often logistics hubs.

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ORIGINAL: .Sirius

Hi if you have them Ill add them not a problem :)

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ORIGINAL: hellfish6

Paul,

Any interest in having the information for the Landing Craft-type gunboats/mortar boats? They were mostly used in WWII, but some did see service through Vietnam (and maybe longer in other navies besides the US)? I have pretty good info on most variations.

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ORIGINAL: hellfish6

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ORIGINAL: .Sirius

Hi if you have them Ill add them not a problem :)

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ORIGINAL: hellfish6

Paul,

Any interest in having the information for the Landing Craft-type gunboats/mortar boats? They were mostly used in WWII, but some did see service through Vietnam (and maybe longer in other navies besides the US)? I have pretty good info on most variations.

Only a few months late...

These are based on CWDB's #2293 LCI 467 Amahai, which is an LCI(G) transferred to the Dutch and then to Indonesia. I'll note changes per type and variation. Most of this materiel is based on Osprey's Landing Craft, Infantry and Fire Support and U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History By Norman Friedman. 211 total LCI(L)s were transferred to the Royal Navy and 25 to the Soviets in 1945 (designated DS - desantnoye sudno/assault ships).

Basic Landing Craft Infantry (Large) LCI(L)-1 class:

Armament: 4x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns. One on bow, one on aft superstructure (cannot shoot forward) and two on the stern facing aft.
In service 1942
299x built

Displacement: 234 long tons (238 t) standard
389 long tons (395 t) full
Length: 158 ft 6 in (48.31 m)
Beam: 23 ft 3 in (7.09 m)
Draft: 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) aft
Propulsion: 8 × GM diesel engines, 2 shafts (4 engines per shaft), 1,600 bhp (1,193 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range: 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) (130 tons)

No radars fitted except in rare cases

Basic LCI(L)-351 class:

Armament: 5x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns. Four 20mm on the corners of the deckhouse, fifth gun on the bow.
In service 1943
595 built

Landing Craft Infantry (Gun) LCI(G) Type A (LCI(L)-351 base) 10x built

2x 40mm single, forward deckhouse corners
3x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns, bow mount, two on aft deckhouse corners
6x .50cal, three per side - bow, amidships, aft
10x 4.5" Mk7 Rocket Launchers (12 rockets per launcher). Firing forward, not trainable.
No troop carrying
720 rockets, 3000 rounds of 40mm in magazine

Landing Craft Infantry (Gun) LCI(G) Type B (LCI(L)-351 base) 8x built

3x 40mm single, bow and forward deckhouse corners
2x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns, two on aft deckhouse corners
6x .50cal, three per side - bow, amidships, aft
8x 4.5" Mk1 Rocket Launchers (12 rockets per launcher). Firing forward, not trainable.
later (1944+) versions had 42x 4.5" Mk7 launchers
No troop carrying
754 rockets, 4500 rounds of 40mm in magazine

Landing Craft Infantry (Gun) LCI(G) Type E (LCI(L)-351 base)

1x 3"/50 Mk22 , forward, elevated mount fires over bow
1x 40mm single, bow
4x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns, deckhouse corners
10x .50cal, five per side - bow, amidships, aft
No troop carrying

Landing Craft Infantry (Gun) LCI(G) Type C (LCI(L)-1 base) 7x built

2x 40mm single, forward deckhouse corners
3x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns, bow mount, two on aft deckhouse corners
6x .50cal, three per side - bow, amidships, aft
10x 4.5" Mk7 Rocket Launchers (12 rockets per launcher). Firing forward, not trainable.
2x 4.5" Mk22 Rocket Launchers ((12 rockets per launcher). Firing forward, not trainable.
No troop carrying

Landing Craft Infantry (Gun) LCI(G) Type D (LCI(L)-1 base) 20+ built

3x 40mm single, bow mount, forward deckhouse corners
4x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns, two bow mount, two fantail
6x .50cal, three per side - bow, amidships, aft
10x 4.5" Mk7 Rocket Launchers (12 rockets per launcher). Firing forward, not trainable.
No troop carrying
720 rockets, 4000 rounds of 40mm in magazine

Landing Craft Infantry (Rocket) LCI(R) (LCI(L)-1 base) 18x built
In service 1944
H2C Radar
1x 40mm bow
4x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns on deckhouse corners
6x 4.5" Mk30 Rocket Launchers (6 rockets per launcher, 30 minute reload time)
later (1945) rearmed with 6x Mk 51 5" rocket launchers (12 rockets each, 15 minute reload time, 1700 rockets in magazine)
1100 rockets, 1000 40mm rounds in magazine
Unspecified ECM equipment

Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M) (LCI(L)-351 base) 42x built
In service 1944
1x 40mm bow
4x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns on deckhouse corners
3x 4.2" Mortars mounted forward of the deckhouse
1200 mortar rounds in magazine

Landing Craft Support (Large) LCS(L)3 LCI(L)-351 base "Might Midget" 130x built
158.5 foot length
23 foot, 3 inch beam

387 tons loaded displacement
15.5 knots max speed
5500 mile range @ 12 knots

70 crew (5 officers, 65 men)

1x 3"/50 Mk22 bow mount (alternately 1x 40mm or 1x twin 40mm - varied widely)
2x twin 40mm (forward deckhouse and fantail)
4x 20mm Mk4 Oerlikon guns, two forward deckhouse, two aft deckhouse
10x 4.5" Mk7 Rocket Launchers
53x transferred to Japanese MSDF in 1952

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ORIGINAL: Overlord

Ok..first shot at this..

for BOTH CWDB and DB3000:
Argentine Daggers and Mirages should NOT have ATA refuel capability..

loadout requests:
A-4B need a 3x Mk82 LDGP/2xDT as Standard War Loadout NOT the 6xMk82s. Also change title from A-4B Caza to just A-4B.
A-4C need a 2x Mk82 and a 4x Mk82 both with 2xDTs as Standard War Loadout.
A-4Q need a 2x Mk82 and a 4x Mk82 *snakeye* with 2x DT as Standard War loadout. The Navy A-4Qs were the ONLY A-4s to use snakeye 500lbs bombs.

Semper Fi!

Jeremy

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ORIGINAL: Overlord

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ORIGINAL: Overlord

Ok..first shot at this..

for BOTH CWDB and DB3000:
Argentine Daggers and Mirages should NOT have ATA refuel capability..

loadout requests:
A-4B need a 3x Mk82 LDGP/2xDT as Standard War Loadout NOT the 6xMk82s. Also change title from A-4B Caza to just A-4B.
A-4C need a 2x Mk82 and a 4x Mk82 both with 2xDTs as Standard War Loadout.
A-4Q need a 2x Mk82 and a 4x Mk82 *snakeye* with 2x DT as Standard War loadout. The Navy A-4Qs were the ONLY A-4s to use snakeye 500lbs bombs.

Just bumping these..thanks!

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ORIGINAL: Schr75

Hi Mgellis

The NB-36H was not nuclear powered, nor was it ever intended to be.
It was merely a flying lab to verify the feasibility of operating a nuclear reactor on-board a plane.

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ORIGINAL: Schr75



Project SLAM, Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (or the flying crowbar).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile

I would LOVE to try this thing out in wargasm62.

Søren

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ORIGINAL: Mgellis

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ORIGINAL: Schr75

Hi Mgellis

The NB-36H was not nuclear powered, nor was it ever intended to be.
It was merely a flying lab to verify the feasibility of operating a nuclear reactor on-board a plane.

Okay, the X-6, then, which was never built, but would have been nuclear-powered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_X-6

In terms of scenario design, what does it mean if you have bombers that have no range limits? They aren't as fast as an ICBM, but they can go anywhere in the world, and even after they are launched, the actual attack can be called off at any time. That might be important in some scenarios.

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ORIGINAL: kgambit

1807 FE 65 Teniente Palacios Canada (Navy) 1947-1966
1808 FE 66 Teniente Ferre Canada (Navy) 1947-1966

The ship names and dates actually correspond to the Peruvian Navy not Canada. The HMCS St Pierre (K680) and HMCS Poundmaker (K675) were sold to Peru in 1947 and were commissioned as the Teniente Palacios and Teniente Ferre respectively.

http://www.liquisearch.com/list_of_peruvian_navy_ships/vessels_acquired_from_1900_onwards/frigates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_St._Pierre_(K680)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Poundmaker_(K675)

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ORIGINAL: Rob322

Since we're seeing hypothetical units in the game, how about a weapon system that was nearly hypothetical, at least for a day or two?

Might be fun to play with these in a cold war scenario, maybe one where the US deployed them more broadly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIM-49_Spartan
http://www.nuclearabms.info/Spartan.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)
http://www.nuclearabms.info/Sprint.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program
http://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/safeguard.htm