Your Fantasy Fighter?

[DUTTENHOFER]

Imagine you had all the worlds combined technology and (reasonable) resources at the time of WWII. What kind of fighter aircraft would you make? A bf-109 with 20mm buckshot? A Zero with detachable armor plates? I'm currently in a nation-building game, and I want to steal good ideas from those who know more than I do. :D

Edited February 18, 2013 by DUTTENHOFER

[VeryOldMan]

q ww1 plane with  little boy under 1 wing and fat man under the other.

[DUTTENHOFER]

q ww1 plane with  little boy under 1 wing and fat man under the other.

Which plane? I don't think a fighter could carry 2 bombs both around 5000kg, without removing badass streamers of course.

[DD_fruitbat]

i185 or a J2M3, well at least in il2......

[JtD]

A flying Yamato.

Edited February 19, 2013 by JtD

[Sim]

A slightly modified Fieseler Storch with a Bushmaster cannon mounted on the back (for respect).

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

Just a Ta-152 C0..............with good stall qualities.

[VeryOldMan]

omg i had forgotten.. Millenium Falcon!!! (and yes.. it qualifies..   star wars was  along logn time ago.. coudl very well be durign ww2)

Edited February 19, 2013 by VeryOldMan

[NZTyphoon]

Martin Baker MB-5 with Centaurus, bigger fuel tanks, and armed with 4 Mauser MG 213/20 or 30

[BlitzPig_EL]

15,486 P 51s.

 

10,038 P 38s

 

15,683 P 47s

 

11,988 P40s

 

9,584 P 39s

 

 

That should do it.

Edited February 19, 2013 by ElAurens

[Skoshi_Tiger]

Easy CAC CA-15

 

Pitty it arrived too late.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/CA-15.jpg

Edited February 19, 2013 by Skoshi_Tiger

[NZTyphoon]

Easy CAC CA-15

 

Pitty it arrived too late.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/CA-15.jpg

See, a Martin-Baker MB 5 with bigger tanks and...* ducks angry boomerang with heat-seeking warhead *

[Feathered_IV]

Mosquito with four Jumo 004 jet engines.

[Caudron431]

EDIT : A combat version of Piaggio P180 Avanti

 

But since we have stay WW2 technology, i would say Kyushu J7W "zwilling" with possibility of separation

Edited February 19, 2013 by RegRag1977

[SvAF/F19_Klunk]

I'd settle with my trusty old I-16 (type 24 mind you).. or I-153P

 

Long live Cr@pGalore!!

[Furio]

[MineFewer]

A submersible helicopter 

[hiro]

 

[JG4_Sputnik]

Tiger Tank with Butterfly wings

[Bearcat]

I'd want a plane with the firepower of a 190, the maneverability of a JM2, the range of a Mustang, the climb of a 109, the dive of a Jug and looks a cross between a Spit amd a Mustang.

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

Viper Mk2

[Letum]

Something with short wings, a really high wing load, a tiny canopy, a single 20mm in the nose, an over engineered structure, twin pull-pull engines in the single fusalage and tricycle landing gear.

 

It would be heavy, slow to climb, have horrible visiability, take a very long time to turn, have poor proformance at altitude, have little firepower and  have an unreasonably high landing speed.

 

On the other hand it would be fast with it's short wings, low drag canopy, twin engines and lack of wing guns. It's heavy frame will mean it is somewhat resistant to damage, but more importantly it allows for a high dive speed and excelent energy retention after a dive.

[Bearcat]

 

I just ordered this for $12 ... Thanks for posting..

[wayno77]

Have to be an He 219 with maneuverability of a Ki 43....

[brook]

Fw190  A3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 P!!!!

[BlitzPig_EL]

Curtiss Hawk 75 with a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 of 2000bhp.

 

That should do the trick.

[Bf-110]

A Bf-110  the wings,engines and tail of the Me-262 and plus a 30mm cannon.

[AX2]

I'd want a plane with the firepower of a 190, the maneverability of a JM2, the range of a Mustang, the climb of a 109, the dive of a Jug and looks a cross between a Spit amd a Mustang.

+1 

[Volkoff]

If we are talking about real World planes, a Yak 3, Lavochkin 7, or a Yak 9U, would do nicely. If we are talking about made up planes, a Skyly J2, like the one flown by The Teacher in Sky Crawlers.  MJ

 

P.S. Great videos Hiro! 

Edited August 31, 2013 by =69.GIAP=MIKHA

[Finkeren]

Come on. You guys aren't going near crazy enough.

 

How about a gigantic German bomber killer with an automatic version of the Flak 18 as motorkanone?

[=BKHZ=Furbs]

Easy CAC CA-15

 

Pitty it arrived too late.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/CA-15.jpg

 

 

I dont care how good it was, im not going to be seen flying that...wow...that's one ULGY plane.

[Lord_Haw-Haw]

Hmm lets see, a few of these:

 

 

Or this baby for a early 1940s situation!

 

And to go totally bananas:

[Skoshi_Tiger]

I dont care how good it was, im not going to be seen flying that...wow...that's one ULGY plane.

LoL! I guess I fall into the big is beautiful camp!

 

Seriously I think its simply what happens when you design a plane for a radial Pratt&Whitney R-2800 and they give you an inline Rolls Royce Griffin Mk61 at the last minute!

 

But I don't know, I kind of like the Mustang on 'roids kind-of look!

Cheers!

Edited August 31, 2013 by Skoshi_Tiger

[Zoring]

I always thought that a twin 20mm cannon armed 109 would be ideal. One in the spinner and one on the nose, having two 20mm guns that close together is the ideal balance of firepower and weight. The Yak3P? I think in IL2 was my favourite plane with that gun configuration.

[Jaws2002]

Here's an idea. A twin engine fighter with engine setup similar to Do335, but without all the bomber crap added. 1x30mm Ho155 cannon in the prop hub loaded with German 30mm M-geshos, plus four Hispano Mk5 loaded with German 20mm M-geshos (two on top of the nose and two in the wing roots)

 

 

[Freycinet]

Wauw Jaws, that is quite a fighter there!

[Uufflakke]

porco-rosso.jpg

 

 

Porco Rossos's Savoia S.21f is available in modded IL2.

 

[HeavyCavalrySgt]

Imagine you had all the worlds combined technology and (reasonable) resources at the time of WWII. What kind of fighter aircraft would you make? A bf-109 with 20mm buckshot? A Zero with detachable armor plates? I'm currently in a nation-building game, and I want to steal good ideas from those who know more than I do. :D

 

It would depend on the nation and the time period.  Germany really would have benefited from better radar equipped night fighters to deal with the night time bombing towards the end of the war.  If they had the technology earlier and put it in a longer ranged aircraft if could have made the night bombing in England more effective, especially if they had radar in bombers with sufficient resolution to look at the ground and pick out landmarks.  Germany really didn't need more effective fighters though, I think.  They need more of what they had, and pilots and parts and gas.  

 

The same was true for Japan.  They didn't need a super-fighter.  They needed more of what they had and pilots to fly them.

 

England could have used a long range patrol aircraft with a searchlight, radar and a decent cannon and bombs or depth charges earlier in the war to find and destroy surfaced U-boats, as could the US.  

 

When the US was conducting bomber raids deep into Germany, they might have benefited from parasite fighters.  The Russians did a little of that, so did Japan and Germany sure thought about it.  I don't know that the US did much until after the war.  The US had an advantage though - we had James Brodie.  We saw his system work mounted on ships and on the ground, and similar systems had been tried with airships.  So, a small, maneuverable, short-ranged fighter that doesn't need to give up a lot of space or weight for fuel and could potentially even be rearmed from its mother ship could have escorted bombers into Germany when no other plane could go the distance.  Maybe one out of ten heavy bombers being a mothership rather than a bomber?  That might have been useful.

 

I am envisioning something like a trailing Brodie system so that a fighter could be lowered and released, then later recovered and winched back up to ride below where the bomb bay would normally be.  The finicky part would be sudden changes in pitch, airspeed and airflow as the parasite got close to the mother but before it was secured against the fuselage.

[Finkeren]

Here's an idea. A twin engine fighter with engine setup similar to Do335, but without all the bomber crap added. 1x30mm Ho155 cannon in the prop hub loaded with German 30mm M-geshos, plus four Hispano Mk5 loaded with German 20mm M-geshos (two on top of the nose and two in the wing roots)

 

 

See, THAT'S what I'm talking about. Looks amazing and actually somewhat feaseble.

[Heywooood]

level nine graviton particle disruptor (GPD9) with sub level sonic harmonizer for extra collateral damage...

 

mounted to a schwinn bicycle with a banana seat, ape hanger handle bars, extended forks and a mint blue ice paint job with chrome trim