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Ju-88-C " The Blue Nosed Bastards of Russia " - max_thehitman - 12.01.2010

Some screenshots of soon-to-be-released skins of some Ju-88-C " Blue Nosed Bastards of Russia "



This particular camouflage-scheme for the day/night-fighter Ju-88-C is pretty radical.

They painted their noses blue so the Russians would think these Luftwaffe Ju-88 aircraft were
bombers, and posed no danger. A favourite Russian Fighter tactic was to usually attack bombers head-on, but they
were not expecting this special Junkers to be equipped with an arsenal of big guns in its nose !
The war in Russia was really insane and mad!

Some screenshots for your amusement.
Hope you enjoy them.























Cheers :cheers:
MAX

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- aviatorsneah - 12.01.2010

very nice!

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- Cranky.1 - 12.01.2010

Great Skin & Great bit of History to learn Thanks

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- KG64_Cnopicilin - 12.01.2010

Looking good. Looking forward to try it out myself

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- aviatorsneah - 12.01.2010

i wish the AI would perceive it as a bomber as well like in real life....until they are met with the nice surprise coming from the nose.

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- Griffon_301 - 12.01.2010

actually those birds were use by specialized locomotive busting squadrons;
their noses were rather painted that way though to fool russian AA gunners into thinking that they were
firing at a bomber and not at a destroyer, armed with a battery of 7,9mm machine guns;
imagine the surprise when a hail of machine gun fire came the way of unsuspecting Russian AA gunners who thought that they had a brave but silly LW bomber pilot in their sights;

interestingly, later models of JU-88G night fighters had their rudders painted in a way to simulate earlier model
C and R night fighter variants and not the much more heavily armed and better performing G model night fighters;

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- Messer - 12.01.2010

And yet, Il-2's AI doesn't perform head-on passes - and they were used by all air forces in WWII as an anti-bomber tactic... :???:

Great idea, though! The skins look sleek!

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- max_thehitman - 12.01.2010

Griffon_301 Wrote:actually those birds were use by specialized locomotive busting squadrons;
their noses were rather painted that way though to fool russian AA gunners into thinking that they were
firing at a bomber and not at a destroyer, armed with a battery of 7,9mm machine guns;
imagine the surprise when a hail of machine gun fire came the way of unsuspecting Russian AA gunners who thought that they had a brave but silly LW bomber pilot in their sights;

interestingly, later models of JU-88G night fighters had their rudders painted in a way to simulate earlier model
C and R night fighter variants and not the much more heavily armed and better performing G model night fighters;

Yes, you are correct.
But here is something I found out while reading about this airplane. Those black-painted rudders were also to
simulate the look of a Mosquito ( looking at the airplane in a side-view-profile). At a very long distance in the night
with only the moonlight striking on the Ju-88 the allied airplanes might think it was a "Mosquito" and left it alone flying nearby. When they least expected ... they attacked the Allied airplane.
Now that is interesting combat tactics. Those Luftwaffe guys were very sneeaky :twisted:

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