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Built around the turbo-supercharger
Georgian-born designer Alexander Kartveli built the aircraft around an engine and its turbo-supercharger: the turbo sat in the rear fuselage, with air and exhaust gases ducted to it through long pipes. The result was a massive fuselage, which pilots nicknamed the “Jug” for its milk-bottle shape.
From escort to ground attack
In 1943 the P-47 became one of the first long-range escort fighters in Europe; it was fast high up and no German fighter could follow it in a dive. When the P-51 largely took over the escort role in 1944, the P-47 came into its own as a fighter-bomber, attacking tanks, trains and columns with bombs, rockets and its eight guns.
Its radial engine and rugged structure let even badly damaged P-47s get home. Brazilian and Mexican squadrons also fought in P-47s, and after the war many air forces, the Turkish Air Force among them, flew it.
In WarSimBox
In the game it is a heavy fighter that fights with energy tactics: its turbo-supercharger makes it very fast high up, it cannot be caught in a dive and it rolls well at high speed. Its eight .50 in guns are powerful and it is very tough. It is heavy low down and in the turn. Once researched, it carries 10 HVAR rockets and two bombs.
Unlocked in the aircraft tree after researching Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5 and Turbo-supercharger. Leads on to: Republic F-84G Thunderjet, Vought F4U-4 Corsair, Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star.
- Top speed
- 697 km/h · 8,500 m
- Climb
- 13.9 m/s
- Sustained turn
- 24.6 s
- Stall speed
- 170 km/h
These figures come from the game’s flight model (climb, turn and stall at sea level).
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