[DONE] Ju.88A-4/Torp
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6S.Maraz Wrote:Level stabilizer will be restored in further release.. But bombsight will not. Aiming while torpedo bombing was made by the pilot (not the bombardier) using normal gunsight or some dedicated sights.

Maraz

Great mod. Out of curiosity I've been reading up on how this machine was used. Firstly, the Stuvi sight it seems to me must be incorrect. I have a drawing from a Russian source which indicates that an ordinary Revi was fitted to torpedo A4s and A17s. The pilot, after all, had control of the 20 mm fixed cannon to suppress flak from ships under attack and a Revi was sufficient (sometimes the gun was flexibly mounted through the nose glass and fired by the bombardier). Several other German aircraft were modified to carry the LF 5b torpedo (Ju 87, Fi 167, He III, Fw 190) and for some of them I can find no evidence that they were ever fitted with a dedicated dive-bombing sight, so it can't have been a pre-requisite.

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I'd have to disagree with you Maraz concerning who launched the torpedos. So far as I can determine the torpedo aiming device (Torpedozielger
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