Any love for the Bf-110 here?

[Enigma89]

Bf-110 Heavy Fighter Compilation in IL-2 Multiplayer on Finnish Virtual Pilots Server

 

 

[Na-zdorovie]

nice vid, great flying too, love the look of some of those skins too 

[JG1_Barton]

The Bf-110 is deadly in the right hands even as a fighter

[Monostripezebra]

Any love for the 110? Yes, off course.. it is a cool twin, like my favourite, so love coming in big packages their way!

 

 

But please notice that you can turn of the chat notifican sound in the settings...

Edited May 30, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[Enigma89]

9 hours ago, Monostripezebra said:

Any love for the 110? Yes, off course.. it is a cool twin, like my favourite, so love coming in big packages their way!

 

 

But please notice that you can turn of the chat notifican sound in the settings...

Helpful thank you! 

[Vig]

Only thing I could love better would be a Grumman Skyrocket.  The video was wonderful.  I wish I could dogfight, but I just can't see well enough.  Watching your dogfights was a thrill.

[Reggie_Mental]

Only flew it once but it was fun. A good low-level strike aircraft against targets like depots, airfields etc. 

 

Didn't the LW have some successes with during the BofB when attacking coastal airfields or installations and then dashing back across the channel at wave top heights?

[Sturmgeschultz]

Nice video, thanks for sharing.

[Enigma89]

On 5/30/2021 at 9:51 PM, Reggie_Mental said:

Only flew it once but it was fun. A good low-level strike aircraft against targets like depots, airfields etc. 

 

Didn't the LW have some successes with during the BofB when attacking coastal airfields or installations and then dashing back across the channel at wave top heights?

Not sure but that would be interesting. I thought the Bf-110 was pretty much deemed a failure in the BoB but I am really rusty on my WWII history. 

[Reggie_Mental]

1 hour ago, Enigma89 said:

 I thought the Bf-110 was pretty much deemed a failure in the BoB but I am really rusty on my WWII history. 

As an escort fighter/destroyer it failed miserably against Hurricanes and Spitfires. 

[Cybermat47]

2 hours ago, Enigma89 said:

Not sure but that would be interesting. I thought the Bf-110 was pretty much deemed a failure in the BoB but I am really rusty on my WWII history. 

It was only a failure as an escort fighter. Well, I say ‘only’, but that was its main mission in the BoB.

 

It was more successful at booming and zooming RAF fighters, but as @Reggie_Mental says, it was very successful at low-level strikes against airfields and radar stations. The BoB was the first time that the Germans experimented with fighter-bombers, and Erprobungsgruppe 210 rapidly validated the concept. 
 

I’m doing research into early August 1940 for Cliffs of Dover right now, and ErpGr 210 comes up a lot. It seems that they were conducting multiple successful strikes in a single day. On the 12th, they managed to temporarily knock out radar stations in the Dover-Canterbury area and inflict severe damage on RAF Manston.

 

It’s a stark contrast to performance of I./ZG 76’s Bf-110 D-1/R1s three days later, which completely failed to protect Luftwaffe raids on Scotland and northern England. Some of the aircraft simply exploded when their poorly-designed belly tanks were hit. 
 

This is what the Bf-110 D-1/R1 looked like, by the way:

Edited June 2, 2021 by Cybermat47

[Enigma89]

12 hours ago, Cybermat47 said:

It was only a failure as an escort fighter. Well, I say ‘only’, but that was its main mission in the BoB.

 

It was more successful at booming and zooming RAF fighters, but as @Reggie_Mental says, it was very successful at low-level strikes against airfields and radar stations. The BoB was the first time that the Germans experimented with fighter-bombers, and Erprobungsgruppe 210 rapidly validated the concept. 
 

I’m doing research into early August 1940 for Cliffs of Dover right now, and ErpGr 210 comes up a lot. It seems that they were conducting multiple successful strikes in a single day. On the 12th, they managed to temporarily knock out radar stations in the Dover-Canterbury area and inflict severe damage on RAF Manston.

 

It’s a stark contrast to performance of I./ZG 76’s Bf-110 D-1/R1s three days later, which completely failed to protect Luftwaffe raids on Scotland and northern England. Some of the aircraft simply exploded when their poorly-designed belly tanks were hit. 
 

This is what the Bf-110 D-1/R1 looked like, by the way:

Thx for sharing, very interesting!

Edited June 3, 2021 by Enigma89

[Monostripezebra]

On 6/2/2021 at 4:45 PM, Cybermat47 said:

This is what the Bf-110 D-1/R1 looked like, by the way:

 

Called "Dackelbauch" by the pilots, some wood and canvas fairing over the long range tank.. considering the idea of drop tanks was allready out there, it is kind of a silly idea, especially when belly-landings are on the menue