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Only a few planes have arrester hooks, the others have to use only the brakes on their landing gears to slow down, and planes like the TB-3 which don't even have brakes are in big trouble here, because after the 250m of deck they have left, the ocean awaits.Īs for the brakes, there's another problem, namely the effectiveness of the brakes, and the stress tolerance of the landing gear they're mounted on: Landing, however, is a totally different matter.
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Some heavy aircraft in IL-2 have weak engines and need long runways, but there's alot of planes with power enough to pull them off the carrier deck before they reach the end of it, so taking off from a carrier is possible for most planes. The problem with big planes is that they're heavy, and as the plane gets bigger, it needs either a longer runway to gain speed enough to take off or more powerful engines to improve acceleration.
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In order to slow down aircraft landing on a carrier's short deck, the aircraft is equipped with a hook which catches one of the several wires lying across the deck, the wires pull the aircraft backwards, and so it slows down and stops at the deck. This simple rule is what keeps your plane in the sky, makes your bombs drop and keep those pesky little biplanes from ever catching up with your big and expensive Me-262, but when it comes to making big planes leave the ground or in our case the deck of an aircraft carrier, not to mention getting the behemoth to turn around, land and stop on the deck, the laws of physics can be quite annoying. What is in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force Sounds good? Well think again and then moan, because before you go nuts in said Pe-8 thinking that you'll be the ruler of both sky, land and sea, we're going to take a look at the math. A Swordfish torpedo bomber? Those can sink battleships if you have enough of them, but how about something bigger, like a TB-3? 3000 kilograms of explosives in four 1000kg bombs would sink pretty much anything short of a battleship, wouldn't they? How about a Pe-8 with a FAB-5000, that's more than 4000 kilograms of refined awesomeness. Although only a few aircraft designs were capable of taking off from and landing on a carrier in WWII, almost every plane in IL-2 can land on and takeoff on a carrier, which means that carrier borne aircraft can carry much heavier payloads in IL-2 than they could in reality. In IL-2 1946, several carriers from the US Navy, Imperial Japanese Navy and the Royal navy are included.