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tater · 02-17-08, 01:43 PM

Thanks, DT, never saw that. Doh!

Regarding the Tone's float plane, Shattered Sword sort of debunked that. They looked at the timing of the float planes, and it would have not made any difference. Contrary to myth, the Kido Butai was not moments away from launching their planes. All the planes were still in the hanger spaces when the SBDs came (the CVs had done landing ops within a few minutes of spent CAP planes). It took maybe 30 minutes to strike the planes on deck just for one wave (the IJN launched in 2 waves usually). That would be under ideal conditions. While wildly maneuvering during air attack, it would take longer.

They did use floats for recon, however, the trick is understanding what they were looking for. NOT submarines. Launching the cat floats off the CAs is easy, recovering them is not. As a result, they were used to scout for the enemy fleet when it was considered possible that one might be about, but they were not routinely in the air for patrol.

Any realistic air mod should have few (if any) ship borne aircraft, IMO, due to the poor way the sim deals with such air groups.

02-17-08, 01:43 PM	#27
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Thanks, DT, never saw that. Doh! Regarding the Tone's float plane, Shattered Sword sort of debunked that. They looked at the timing of the float planes, and it would have not made any difference. Contrary to myth, the Kido Butai was not moments away from launching their planes. All the planes were still in the hanger spaces when the SBDs came (the CVs had done landing ops within a few minutes of spent CAP planes). It took maybe 30 minutes to strike the planes on deck just for one wave (the IJN launched in 2 waves usually). That would be under ideal conditions. While wildly maneuvering during air attack, it would take longer. They did use floats for recon, however, the trick is understanding what they were looking for. NOT submarines. Launching the cat floats off the CAs is easy, recovering them is not. As a result, they were used to scout for the enemy fleet when it was considered possible that one might be about, but they were not routinely in the air for patrol. Any realistic air mod should have few (if any) ship borne aircraft, IMO, due to the poor way the sim deals with such air groups.