Meteors With A Torp?

[comrade harps]

I'm about to start work on a Meteor F.8, in the nocturnal maritime/coastal attack role. All darked up and grey/blue with Red star markings - it's bulit in the Soviet Republic of Britain after all!

I have 3 ordnance options I'm playing with. Some 60lb rockets underwing with a conformal fuel tank. The same tank, but with 2 or 4 FAB-250 bombs underwing. Or, and this is the one that I'm really unsure about, underwing tanks with a torpedo on the centreline. I've got 2 torps - a short on from a Beaufighter and a long one from a IL-28 Beagle.

Would a torpedo be too much for a Meteor to carry, though? And, by the early 1950s, would a torpedo be outmoded for all except slow prop jobs and (but not yet) choppers?

Discuss.

comrade harps

[NARSES2]

I swear I've read about a proposal for a torpedo armed Meteor somewhere ? Think it was just that a proposal, but can't remember where I read it (if I did   )

Chris

[Archibald]

Ysi already asked the question about Jets carrying torps (it was for the falkland build and its MiG-23 Schturmovik   )

Great minds think alike... while digging my collection of magazine for pics of a gun mount on a Noratlas, I've red an article on the (disastrous) Blackburn Firebrand. The article mention that 813 squadron had two Meteor Mk.7 in its inventory at a time... I thought that these Meteors would have been much less vulnerable than the Firebrand.

It was 25 minutes ago, just when this threas was opened!      

[Howard of Effingham]

its a good thought comrade, and the order of lenin will look good on your chest.

may i also suggest you use mozambiqian AF markings. their national roundel comes
with an added AK47 for extra punch. see the ZOTZ southern african AF's roundels
set and you will see what i mean.

comrade HoE!    

[Radish]

My eyes weren't focussed....I read "meteor with a TAP" and thought of an NF-14 development (with the long nose) supplying drought ridden areas of Kent with water via a Tap on the nose

I think I was "dropped" when young

A Torpedo would be nice...or two, one on each "bendy" wingtip  

[Archibald]

My eyes weren't focussed....I read "meteor with a TAP" and thought of an NF-14 development (with the long nose) supplying drought ridden areas of Kent with water via a Tap on the nose

I think I was "dropped" when young

A Torpedo would be nice...or two, one on each "bendy" wingtip

And I needed to read the post 4 times before understanding that the NF-14 was the nightfighter Meteor, I thought you talked about a Tomcat with the N- designation (such as NKC-135, N- meaning "definitevely modified" )

Time to stop this thread...    

[Shasper]

I know the russkies advertise that the Su-34 can sling torps, and I believe the PLAAF FBC-1 uses them too.

Shas B)

[B777LR]

Wasnt the Tupolev Tu-14T (Nato reporting name: "Bosun") meant as a torpedo bomber? It was the competitor to the Il-28 Beagle, but lost, and was thus only built in small numbers. And even better, development started in 1947, when the meteor was still a new plane!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-14

[Radish]

I remember reading about the Meteor NF.14.
Looked cool, but it was diabolical.
On Target shoots, while USAf pilots in F-86s returned scores of 90%+ due to the manoeverability of the Sabre however much the drogue moved around, the Meteor NF.14s regularly returned scores of less than 5% bacause when they turned, manoevered, or did anything other than fly ina straight line, the wings on the Meteor "twisted and flexed" so that the cannon shells sprayed the sky! Classic.

[ysi_maniac]

Wasnt the Tupolev Tu-14T (Nato reporting name: "Bosun") meant as a torpedo bomber? It was the competitor to the Il-28 Beagle, but lost, and was thus only built in small numbers. And even better, development started in 1947, when the meteor was still a new plane!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-14

Both Tu-14 and Il-28 were suitable torpedo bombers.

[McGreig]

I'm about to start work on a Meteor F.8. All darked up and grey/blue with Red star markings - it's built in the Soviet Republic of Britain after all!

There almost were Red Star Meteors in real life. The Russians actually ordered three Meteor MkIVs (and three Vampires) in 1947. The Meteors would have been delivered in January 1948 but, in the end, no export approval was given. (Odd, given that the Russians' main interest was in the engines and that Nenes and Derwents were subsequently exported to the Soviet Union)

[Glenn Gilbertson]

I remember reading about the Meteor NF.14.
Looked cool, but it was diabolical.
On Target shoots, while USAf pilots in F-86s returned scores of 90%+ due to the manoeverability of the Sabre however much the drogue moved around, the Meteor NF.14s regularly returned scores of less than 5% bacause when they turned, manoevered, or did anything other than fly ina straight line, the wings on the Meteor "twisted and flexed" so that the cannon shells sprayed the sky! Classic.

I remember reading that the Supermarine Attacker had the same problem with wing twisting, but can't recall the source.