I-153

[dannybooze]

Would there be a chance of getting an

I-153? I belive it would help the russian team alot in the early war stage and would be fun to fly an they helped alot during the early war

[Cybermat47]

7 minutes ago, Dannybooze said:

Would there be a chance of getting an

I-153? I belive it would help the russian team alot in the early war stage and would be fun to fly an they helped alot during the early war

Also, it’s just a damn nice looking aircraft.

[CUJO_1970]

I rarely fly Russian but it is the most needed plane in the series.

[CountZero]

5 hours ago, Dannybooze said:

Would there be a chance of getting an

I-153? I belive it would help the russian team alot in the early war stage and would be fun to fly an they helped alot during the early war

I dont see how would i-153 help red side on early war maps vs 109E7s and 109F2s.

We have i-16 now and players are not taking that airplane when they have option to take P-40 or Mig-3.

Why would they pick even slower I-153 to fight poor 109E7 or 109F2.

 

What red side need is late war russain fighters, Yak-3 or La-7 as minimum and more of Yak-9M or Yak-9U at best.

Early war bomber would even be better option as collector airplane to give more options then just Pe-2, then any early fighter, i-16 is good enought option for early war when they have limited number of collector airplanes they can make, i think its waist to spend that time on i-153 out of all options they could go for.

[jeanba]

5 hours ago, Dannybooze said:

Would there be a chance of getting an

I-153? I belive it would help the russian team alot in the early war stage and would be fun to fly an they helped alot during the early war

I don't see neither how it would help, but I would certainly buy it : so much fun to fly !!!!

[SE.VH_Boemundo]

1 hour ago, CountZero said:

I dont see how would i-153 help red side on early war maps vs 109E7s and 109F2s.

We have i-16 now and players are not taking that airplane when they have option to take P-40 or Mig-3.

Why would they pick even slower I-153 to fight poor 109E7 or 109F2.

 

What red side need is late war russain fighters, Yak-3 or La-7 as minimum and more of Yak-9M or Yak-9U at best.

Early war bomber would even be better option as collector airplane to give more options then just Pe-2, then any early fighter, i-16 is good enought option for early war when they have limited number of collector airplanes they can make, i think its waist to spend that time on i-153 out of all options they could go for.

 

Because it's historical. Are you worried about win or flying immersive historical aircraft and scenarios? We already have late war scenarios like Bodenplatte and Normandy. We need Barbarrosa, Poland, France and Finland. We need Buffalos, Fokker D-XXI, Lysanders, Heinkel He 115, Fiat G 50 etc. We need low capable but all-terrain take-off and landing, seaplanes to conduct rescue, espionage and recon missions. We need a luftwaffe biplane. At late war luftwaffe were almost crippled and was very easy for allies. I'm a old-fashioned for ancient AFW were we conducted rescue missions using the fokker biplane so your comrade with streak were not captured.

Edited May 27, 2021 by SE.VH_Boemundo

[CountZero]

1 hour ago, SE.VH_Boemundo said:

 

Because it's historical. Are you worried about win or flying immersive historical aircraft and scenarios? We already have late war scenarios like Bodenplatte and Normandy. We need Barbarrosa, Poland, France and Finland. We need Buffalos, Fokker D-XXI, Lysanders, Heinkel He 115, Fiat G 50 etc. We need low capable but all-terrain take-off and landing, seaplanes to conduct rescue, espionage and recon missions. We need a luftwaffe biplane. At late war luftwaffe were almost crippled and was very easy for allies. I'm a old-fashioned for ancient AFW were we conducted rescue missions using the fokker biplane so your comrade with streak were not captured.

 

I just look at it what will give me fastest way to have full war on east online, now whats missing is late 44 early 45, axis have airplanes for it allieds miss atleast 1 fighter minimal to be compatant on east frnt. 

In early war i see only need for bomber that is not Pe-2, Sb-2M can fit that role and to me its more neccesary then any early war figher for russian side.

And Yak-3 is atleast only fighter that can fill in late war so online you can have late war missions, 2 collector airplanes and you can have whole ww2 on east from start to finish. I-153 is just another airplane with no purpose, you could make it and it brings nothing to situation that we have now where you have east front up to 1944, with Pe-2 as only bomber for whole gameplay on east front.

 

In BoBp we have axis were heavy outnumbered and still you have missions on it, so fact that axis were heavy outnumbered on east would not change that in our game where everything is 50/50 and historical numbers are not important for players when they ask for historical accuracy.

 

But im 110% sure we will have as next DLC Poland 1945 (that willl bring Yak-3), so as only early soviet airplane to come, i would not pick i-153, but i ould go with Sb-2M, if we go by what russian side need in early missions.

Edited May 27, 2021 by CountZero

[PatrickAWlson]

From wiki:

While the overall I-153 performance was satisfactory, some significant problems were revealed. Most troublesome was the absence of a firewall between the fuel tank mounted in front of the cockpit and the pilot. Combined with strong draft coming in through the wheel wells, fuel tank fires invariably resulted in rapid engulfment of the cockpit and severe burns to the pilot.

 

Not only did they not have a firewall, they actually blasted the flames back into the cockpit.  Not good.

[Monksilver]

39 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

From wiki:

While the overall I-153 performance was satisfactory, some significant problems were revealed. Most troublesome was the absence of a firewall between the fuel tank mounted in front of the cockpit and the pilot. Combined with strong draft coming in through the wheel wells, fuel tank fires invariably resulted in rapid engulfment of the cockpit and severe burns to the pilot.

 

Not only did they not have a firewall, they actually blasted the flames back into the cockpit.  Not good.

 That's one way to avoid the pilots getting frostbite in a Russian winter I suppose.