Douglas A-20 Smoke Screen Loadout

[kurtj]

I was at the USAF Museum in Dayton a few weeks ago and ran across this feature of the Douglas A-20... smoke canisters for laying down smokescreens... a future mission profile, perhaps?

 

 

[MarderIV]

That's pretty interesting. Assuming Tank Crew fixes/improves AI spotting, smoke would have a significant utility from the ground operations perspective. 

 

But we don't really know what the scope of Tank Crew is and how synergistic the combined arms experience might be. I'd love to have these as real tactical options in the game though. In games like Tank Warfare - Tunisia, playing with smoke screens was incredibly useful. But that required tremendous detail over AI spotting mechanics. If that comes into play in Tank Crew, I bet this mission type and loadout might exist. 

 

At least I hope so. 

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

This was obviously testing for what is now known from jet liners as ‘Chem-trails’ .

 

 

 

lol but yeah, cool concept that they would lay down aerial smoke for the ground .... I suppose when arty smoke shells weren’t available

[Gambit21]

4 minutes ago, spartan85 said:

This was obviously testing for what is now known from jet liners as ‘Chem-trails’ .

 

Yeah - I saw one last week that cut in and out like a dashed/dotted line 5 or 6 times before resuming it's normal continuous streak.

Pretty interesting 'contrail' that was.

 

[RedKestrel]

8 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Yeah - I saw one last week that cut in and out like a dashed/dotted line 5 or 6 times before resuming it's normal continuous streak.

Pretty interesting 'contrail' that was.

 

Morse code.

I saw one last week that said "Drink your ovaltine".

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

Their smoke screens are a little high   

 

i wonder if it would even be possible to have smoke immiters from an aircraft in game to produce coverage long enough over a distance....