posted 08-04- 08:23 AM               

These are the pics...here are my questions:

1. Is there a list or something, where the soviet radio calls are in (in cyrillic ?)

2. Is it possible to add 3 new soviet squadrons, which would use the new female calls I would try to get ?

3. Is someone interested in female voices /female squadrons in SDOE ?

4. What else should I know (sample rates etc.)

OK - thats all Let me know please !

posted 08-04- 08:28 AM               

46th Guards Bomber Regiment - Plane U-2/Po-2

125th Guards Bomber Regiment - Planes Pe-2/U-2

586th Fighter Regiment - Planes several Yak types (1,3,7 (9) )

posted 08-04- 12:23 PM               

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posted 08-04- 12:32 PM               

I would also love to see a U-2. It looks significantly more simple than many WWII aircraft, and would add some flavor.

Of course, I'd even rather see a Polikarpov I-153 (hint, hint) :-)

posted 08-04- 02:10 PM               

- what was the U-2 used for? Reconnaissance and the like?

Just curious...

posted 08-04- 03:26 PM               

The U2/Po2 - light short range bomber, designed in the late 1920's by Nikolay Polikarpov's team. Bomb load up to 305 kg / 771 lbs. Some were armed with a small (riffle calibre) SchKAS MG in observers position, some not ! Parachutes were not used before summer 1944, the planes maximum speed was 80 mph and so it was very maneuverable and easy to land. "German pilots considered a hunt for a U-2 as important as an aircombat, and this forced soviet pilots to fly mainly at night...The U-2 inspired fear in the enemy, suddenly appearing over his position and dropping bombs."
The U2/Po2 was easily set on fire by either the antiaircraft or machine-gun tracers..

"On a mission near Novorossijsk, I had just dropped my bombs on the railway tracks and was turning away when I saw a German fighter, a Focke Wolf, flying toward me. I managed to dive and make a sideslip. Only pure chance saved me, and I escaped the enemy's fire.
But the aircraft behind me, piloted by Dusya Nosal, was caught by enemy fire. She was killed in her cockpit. Her navigator, Irina Kashirina, in the back cockpit knew how to fly and took over the controls, but the dead pilot had slumped forward over the control stick, and she was not able to use the controls. So she had to reach forward and hold the dead body by the collar with her left hand and control the aircraft with her right hand. The rough air over the Crimean hills almost caused her to crash, but she brought the plane with the body of the dead pilot back to the regimental airfield. She was in a state of shock." -- Major Mariya Smirnova, commander of the squadron (46th Guards Regiment), Hero of the Soviet Union

Data and information for the Pe-2 will come with the released version, just this story from the 125th Guards:

"...Yet another time we were shot down when I was making my fifth combat flight. We bombed successfully and were already descending when suddenly we were machine gunned into the left side of the aircraft. It cut through all of our systems and damaged the fuel tank and one engine. The plane had a black tail of engine smoke behind it, and we made an emergency landing at a Russian fighter airdrome. I had the same navigator that was with me when we crashed with Raskov. When we made the emergency landing, we discovered that the landing gear was damaged. The tires burned down completely from braking, and the wheels were twisted. The commander of the fighter squadron based there greeted us in 'pure Russian style' - using bad words - thinking it was a male crew. He didn't want us landing there when his fighter aircraft needed to come in to land..." -- Senior Lieutenant Galina Tenuyeva-Lomanova, pilot, commander of the formation

LK

posted 08-04- 05:09 PM               

Oh yeah, Laika - can I use that quotation that you stuck in with the info about the U-2? There's a 'Should women be allowed in the military?' thread going on right now in www.bombs-away.net and I'd like to use that quote as an example of how the Soviet Union had women fighting during WWII.

posted 08-04- 06:16 PM               

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Originally posted by Laika 801:
FlashGordon and all other "ignorant" :

The U2/Po2 - light short range bomber...the planes maximum speed was 80 mph...

LK

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Laika is this right? Are you sure you didn't drop a '1' in front of the 80? If this is true, then the U-2 was slower than most WWI planes! A PZL11C could fly circles around it! If it's top speed was only 80 mph - this makes me just sick to think about it - it would be completely helpless! Can't run, can't fight (with or without that rifle caliber MB)...just one slow moving target.

posted 08-04- 07:05 PM               

"Soviet Combat Aircraft of the second World War - V2/ Twin-Engined Fighters, Attack Aircraft and Bombers" -Yefim Gordon, Dmitri Khazanov

"A Dance with Death - Soviet Airwomen in World War II" - Anne Noggle

Russian Aviation Museum - http://hep2.physics.arizona.edu/~savin/ram/, by Alexandre Savine

..thats why they flew often at night and lost alot of pilots...

And Flash - I wont register to that other forum - please! Copy the stuff I wrote here and paste it there ! Some of them really don't know what they're talking about !

Thanks !

posted 08-04- 08:54 PM               

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posted 08-05- 03:33 AM               

thanks for the go-ahead.

Re: the maximum speed of the U-2, that's just incredible! I mean, the Germans could have just pulled the tarp off of any Fokker E. III's left lying around and used them to shoot the U-2's down! Was the reason for the effectiveness of the U-2's? I imagine anything going that slow could pretty much drop its bombs where it wanted.

posted 08-05- 03:38 AM               

Laika I do wish you would have the Po-2 as your next project (after you take a long break of course! Youve worked your butt off!) This aircraft is just sooo historic.

Just scanned this pic....

posted 08-06- 08:22 PM               

Jeeves - If you're going to pursue this in the intervening time, please let me know so we can coordinate its inclusion in the release of "Project F" (sorry for the evasiveness, I need to protect the element of surprise).

Werner

P.S. No, I haven't disappeared, I'm just quietly plugging away on some goodies for you folks...

posted 08-06- 10:39 PM               

email on its way bro....regret delay.