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Hey guys I was just wondering if anyone was working on, or if it is even possible, to have angled deck carriers in the game? With Korean war era jets showing up it would make carrier ops a little easier for sure

Carriers were not having angled decks until post-Korea as I understand it.

It'd be nice, but seems like many of the Midway class carriers were upgraded to angled decks after Korea. It could open the door to Vietnam for IL-2, but doubt the game engine will support guided missles :?

The game engine surely will not support the HUD's of that era, guided missiles, or anything like that... And since Angled Decks didn't appear until after Korea, then He's right, I see no point in making them.

Yeah I guess you're right, i thought they were Korea era but now that I look on wikipedia it seems the earliest angled deck carriers saw service was 1954, and I agree with the other thread pointing out that trying to make vietnam era aircraft in IL2 is a little ridiculous

Vietnamn era combat is not supported simply because aircraft speeds are capped to 1000kmh and FM modelling stops at 10000m by the game enginge.

I was just watching a doco on carriers today. The Midway class was initially straight (like most WW2 aircraft carriers). After Korea, it was modernized. Look at the Wikipedia page and you can roughly trace this class's history. BUT what was revolutionary was the guidance system that allowed pilots to judge the angle of descent and the armour plated flight deck.

But yeh, angled flight decks are more of an ealry 60s design and such, those aircraft are beyond the scope of this game engine

ha you guys are all wrong lol

Cool, that's what we had back in 2009