Fw-190A-6 Engine Questions

[6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann]

The A-6 as far as I understand uses the same Engine as the A-5. 

Will it be the same as in the A-5, with a Ground Attack F or a G-Mod with 1.58ata in Low Gear and locked in High Gear, or will it be available in the regular Version as well?

[Aurora_Stealth]

Seems like a reasonable assumption that we would get the equivalent ground attack modification which is the Fw 190 G-3, considering all the modifications we've seen on recent releases of the Hurricane, Bf 109 G-6 Late and not to forget the earlier BoBP Fw 190 A-8/F-8 etc.

 

Typically those increased low altitude power/boost settings were given to assist aircraft carrying bombs due to the performance loss from carrying them, so I'm doubtful we would get it with the standard version A-6, but probably would come with the G-3 modification.

 

Not aware of an F version of the A-6 however. The G version just being a long range version of the F which was for close support / strike.

Edited November 24, 2020 by Aurora_Stealth

[6FG_Big_Al]

An exciting question. As far as the Jabos are concerned, it is a bit mixed. It looks like (correct me if I'm wrong) that the F1-F3 variants were built, the F4-F7 variants were only experimental and skipped and only the F8 went into production again.
It looks like the F1 was based on the A4, the F2 on the A5 and the F3 on the A6 ? That would be the question now. Unfortunately I did not find any exact information about this in my books and the topic is only rudimentarily mentioned on most pages I found. But if I follow the logic (I know an error) the F3 could be based on the A6 and therefore be an option in Il-2. All in all I would be very happy to see some other modifications for the A6 besides the Wgr. 21, but unfortunately a lot of them were only projected and not really or only very little used.

 

[-=PHX=-SuperEtendard]

Afaik the F-3 was the renamed/standarized/production version of the A-5/U17 (the one we have as modification for the A-5 in Battle of Kuban). If i'm correct the A-6 only had the G-3 as ground attack derivative. I'm expecting to have it as modification, and I guess it would have the low altitude boost.

Edited November 24, 2020 by -=PHX=-SuperEtendard

[PatrickAWlson]

No wonder German logistics were this side of awful

[BlitzPig_EL]

36 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

No wonder German logistics were this side of awful

 

Be sure!

 

You could never accuse the Germans of not overthinking a problem.

 

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[III/JG53Frankyboy]

you ever checked a pricelist of a Mercedes, BMW or Porsche ?

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, -=PHX=-SuperEtendard said:

Afaik the F-3 was the renamed/standarized/production version of the A-5/U17 (the one we have as modification for the A-5 in Battle of Kuban). If i'm correct the A-6 only had the G-3 as ground attack derivative. I'm expecting to have it as modification, and I guess it would have the low altitude boost.

 

Yes, the A-5/U17 is what became the F-3/R1. G-3 is the long-range strike variant of the A-6. There was no F-series variant of the A-6 that went into production.

 

More good info here: https://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/11/stuff_eng_fw190_01.htm 

https://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/12/stuff_eng_fw190_02.htm

Edited November 24, 2020 by LukeFF

[sevenless]

1 hour ago, -=PHX=-SuperEtendard said:

 If i'm correct the A-6 only had the G-3 as ground attack derivative. I'm expecting to have it as modification, and I guess it would have the low altitude boost.

 

Sure. We should be able to recreate Operation Steinbock with SKG 10, shouldn´t we? Looking forward to the G3.

 

Operation Steinbock - Wikipedia

[Avimimus]

I'm kindof hoping to see the Mk-103 (even if only a dozen aircraft carried it) on the A-6 or on the Me-410 (even if it appears more of a planned armament than one which was ever carried, outside of Norway anyway)... because it is such an interesting weapon and we currently only have it on the Hs-129... I would hope that they would accurately model its increased dispersion when mounted on the A-6... and I would also encourage multiplayer servers and campaign designers to lock it. But it'd still be really fun to have (and not completely ahistorical).

[6FG_Big_Al]

23 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

Yes, the A-5/U17 is what became the F-3/R1. G-3 is the long-range strike variant of the A-6. There was no F-series variant of the A-6 that went into production.

 

More good info here: https://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/11/stuff_eng_fw190_01.htm 

https://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/12/stuff_eng_fw190_02.htm

Thanks for the detailed infos there! The G3/R1and R5 sub variants seem to be quite solid loadout

[PatrickAWlson]

48 minutes ago, III/JG53Frankyboy said:

you ever checked a pricelist of a Mercedes, BMW or Porsche ?

 

I have a 300K Porsche all queued up.  Just waiting for my lottery winnings to come in.  Seriously, I did a "build your own Porsche" on their web site.  It got to $325,000.