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Favourite way to down B-17's?


Zius

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One of my favourite things to do in DCS is down a formation of B-17's, with or without P-51 escort.

 

At the moment, my favourite tool to do this, is the MiG-15. It's fast enough but not too fast, and only a few hits with that 37mm cannon are neccessary to disintegrate the target. Problems are that the MiG-15 is difficult to do deflection shooting with, due to low projectile velocity, and that the B-17 is quite well armed!

 

I'm not yet sufficiently familiar with it, but maybe the MiG-19 will be even more effective than the MiG-15.

 

Before you say "but that's not realistic" I would like to point out that:

 

1) In the Suez Crisis of 1956, Israel flew B-17's and Egypt MiG-15's and could have met.

The MiG-19 was introduced in 1955.

The B-17 was still being used by the CIA in 1962 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_COLDFEET

The last country to have the B-17 in active duty was Brazil (until 1968 )

 

2) Who cares anyway as long as you have fun? ;)

 

So, what's your favourite B-17 destroyer?

Modules: Bf 109, C-101, CE-II, F-5, Gazelle, Huey, Ka-50, Mi-8, MiG-15, MiG-19, MiG-21, Albatros, Viggen, Mirage 2000, Hornet, Yak-52, FC3

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