[highlander_262]

Ah, now hold on just a second there... The Meteor F Mk. I was used for chasing down V-1's which barely counts as combat. However, the Meteor F Mk. III got into a fight with some Fw 190's early in 1945. They still wore the all white paint and the combat is disputed, but more than likely, it actually happened which is more then you can say for the YP-80A which was only sent into the combat area. The Meteor F Mk. 8 was used in Korea by the RAAF for ground attack, but still managed to score three Mig kills.

They also scored at least one Fairey Firefly. Friend of mines father was the firefly pilot, fortunately he survived but the poor navigator didn't

[56RAF_Kernow]

The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet. Designed by George Carter, it first flew in 1943 and commenced operations on 27 July 1944 with 616 Squadron of the Royal Air Force.


THE FIRST JET FIGHTER ALLIES HAVE OPERATIONAL , not the last as we have it lol or dont have as yet ? hock:

surely it was the ONLY operational allied jet... and about the only one not in the game yet :roll:

Edit:

BTW that's not aimed at the modders who give up much time to bring us these new ac, but is more a criticism of Il-2:1946, which could have given us the one allied jet that saw service during WW2 - and would doubtless have seen much more action in the hypothetical 1946 scenario - rather than more allied rockets & jets that didn't see action.

[JG62Zeimer]

bump

[bjgregory]

BTW that's not aimed at the modders who give up much time to bring us these new ac, but is more a criticism of Il-2:1946, which could have given us the one allied jet that saw service during WW2 - and would doubtless have seen much more action in the hypothetical 1946 scenario - rather than more allied rockets & jets that didn't see action.

Gotta agree with you there, I was really disappointed when I saw the aircraft list for '46. Might have been cool if there was either the Meteor or the Vampire. Even better if there had been aircraft that were going to be used in decent numbers during the invasion of Japan like the Lancaster, Lincoln, Spitfire XIV, Tempest II, Hornet, P-47N and P-51H. I bet there's loads more that would have been appropriate...Deac could probably list another 10 I've missed. Always thought that 46 was a bit of a missed opportunity, but then, I guess IL-2 wasn't really the focus of any huge amount of development by then.

[ex_RAAF_Elecfitter]

Have to agree with that, it does seem Oleg's crew was reluctant to incorporate the better British planes in general except of course the spits and mustangIII. They seemed to prefer giving us obsolete and low performance types (excluding the mossies and beaus) and preferred to give us Hurris and the useless Blenheims. Why TF Lancs werent in it was yet another mystery. I heard someone say they said the game couldnt support long range multi-engine bombers yet we had the B17 and B24

Bring on the Meteor III I say, just so we can prove a hundred times that it didnt stand a chance against the me262 and that is the real reason it wasnt allowed. What puzzles me is why they kept building it, they knew it was inferior to german designs yet they continued with it and countries like mine were led like lambs to the slaughter to buy it because back then we had an attitude where we must buy British.

Does anyone know what happened to the Vampire Magpie and his mates were doing?