WHAT PLANES ARE THOSE

[alaskausn]

So I was looking at the Des Moines (Tier X US Cruiser), and I noticed unusual planes mounted in the catapults on the back of the Des Moines. Does anyone know what plane its supposed to be? Or is it completely made up?

[Aragathor]

Looks like a navy version of the Mustang:

 

http://mustang.gaetanmarie.com/articles/naval/naval.htm

[CptBarney]

Probably a Northrop N-3PB Nomad.

 

im not a plane expert so im most likely wrong.

 

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1050

[Skyllon]

19 minutes ago, USSLongIsland said:

So I was looking at the Des Moines (Tier X US Cruiser), and I noticed unusual planes mounted in the catapults on the back of the Des Moines. Does anyone know what plane its supposed to be? Or is it completely made up?

Plane is called "WG Artistic Freedom".

[Woelfchen]

The Nomad had a radial engine. (Like most/all US-Navy planes in WW2)

Maybe a WG/fantasy version of the mustang. The navy prototyps were for CVs.

[lafeel]

24 minutes ago, CptBarney said:

Probably a Northrop N-3PB Nomad.

 

im not a plane expert so im most likely wrong.

 

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1050

Definetly not. Radial engined and a far longer canopy.

[Estaca_de_Bares]

32 minutes ago, Aragathor said:

Looks like a navy floatplane version of the Mustang:

 

http://mustang.gaetanmarie.com/articles/naval/naval.htm

FTFY, and yes, that fuselage and canopy resemble a late-war Mustang too much to be mistaken for another plane. The rounded tail surfaces are pretty much fantasy, though.

 

Salute.

[jss78]

AFAIK floatplane fighters (as opposed to spotter/recon planes) never really became a much-used in WW2, so understandably WG might have trouble here. A lot  of the time they seem to be some obscure prototype of a float conversion of land-based fighter.

 

E.g. looking at my French ships,  de Grasse gets the Loire 210 fighter which actually served briefly, while Algerie and Dunkerque appear to have the Dewoitine HD.780 for which only a single prototype existed. I don't recognize the fighter on Charles Martel.

 

On some of the planes the 3D models actually have the model number visible,  e.g. the HD.780 mentioned above. 

[CptBarney]

So a made up mustang then?

[El2aZeR]

A lot of floatplane fighters afaik are just regular fighters with floats attached to them. Aka most of them are completely made up.

You used to be able to see what model they are when all ships who carried floatplane fighters got an aircraft stat in port, but WG did away with that.

[UTG_620]

The front engine (Merlin) fuselage parts and exaust position are typical from Mustang fighter, so I guess that's a navy version....

 

[invicta2012]

It looks like the front of a P51D Mustang and the tail of a P39 Airacobra. For those who don't know what a P39's tail looks like, it's quite distinctive....

 

[Hopeless_Guppy]

1 hour ago, USSLongIsland said:

So I was looking at the Des Moines (Tier X US Cruiser), and I noticed unusual planes mounted in the catapults on the back of the Des Moines. Does anyone know what plane its supposed to be? Or is it completely made up?

The Vladivostok also has something pretty similar to this, maybe a Lend lease aircraft then?

[ZWC]

Should be a Kingfisher on it. (OS2U)
but hey, we are having no Stuka on the GZ so why be accurate here.

[alaskausn]

Thank you all for the replies!

I guess its just made up... a shame since it looks so cool

[Hopeless_Guppy]

Another question is in the lower tiered games, what are those massive multi engined Russian planes, look to have the cockpit of a Lanc, and the tail of a Stirling.

[togMOR]

Do you mean the red / orange ones at Polar?

Those are Tupolev ANT-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_TB-3

[BLUB__BLUB]

My guess, it is a captured Focked Wulf or something. Might be a Messershit, too.

[Spunyarn]

Found the answer. Maybe.

 

Used the WoWs unpacker to look at what the names for the US fighters were and the one where the textures had that number was AAF024_XP_40S. So that would make it an XP-40S, which doesn't exist. But it does look a lot like the P-40Q, the last and radically redesigned version of the Curtis P-40 Warhawk, which did have a bubble canopy (unlike the older versions) and a tailfin that matches the picture shown. This variant never entered production as although it was a significant improvement it was still inferior to the younger designs.

https://oldmachinepress.com/2015/08/18/curtiss-xp-40q/ (pictures towards bottom of article show the bubble canopy version)

 

So it looks like Wargaming might have added a couple of letters, to skip P40-R, to make a floatplane variant.

 

And NoobySkooby is sort of right; the Soviet Union did get a lot of P-40's (2000 of the P-40N's according to an old battered book) and they appreciated how rugged a design it was. So they might have got P-40S's, if they'd existed. 

 

EDIT: Though I've been an idiot. I could have just looked at the files for what Russian planes there are, and a "Yak_9U_float" is listed. So what NoobySkooby's referring to is probably a fictitious floatplane variant of the Yak-9U.

 

 

[250swb]

4 hours ago, Johmie said:

Found the answer. Maybe.

 

 

Not perfect but clearly meant to be the model in the game.

[Blixies]

10 hours ago, BLUB__BLUB said:

My guess, it is a captured Focked Wulf or something. Might be a Messershit, too.

No... 

[Amon_ITA]

Can't understand Wargaming fetish for fake airplanes in wows really.

[Panocek]

AK47 TA-152 for everyone Hindenburg

[Colonel_Boom]

The engine looks like a Mustang but it is missing the air intake for the supercharger down below. So maybe it is a designed aircraft and not completely fake.

[Pametrada]

The nearest thing would be the Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk.