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    Hi
    Were the Pe2 and Tupolev twin engined medium both used for ground attack and medium alt bombing? I suspect the Tupolev wasn't but if anyone can confirm that it'd be great.
    Also, what altitudes did they operate at for level bombing - about 3000m sound right to you? I guess it depended on the situation but if anyone knows more I'd like to hear it.
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    Well dive brakes plus a bomb site for level bombing certainly suggest the pe2 was used for both.
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    Some Pe-2s sported rocket rails under wings outside engines. Besides level and dive bombers they were used as a sturmoviks too.

    Tu-2 however wasn't (to my knowledge), and was used only as a daylight level bomber. There were tests done with the Tu-2Š (Š=Sh for Shturmovik), with whole lot PPSh submachineguns in a bombbay for strafing infantry, but only a few were built.
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    The Pe-2 and Tu-2 were primarily used as medium-alt level bombers even though the Pe-2 was designed to act as a dive bomber as well.

    But dive bombing tactics were not well understood and was deemed too dangerous to do in the Pe-2. One pilot, a commander of a bomber division, I think, in 1943(?) decided to dive bomb (against orders!) and found it was far more accurate. After a few months more pilots used dive bombing, but most of the time it was just level bombing that went on.

    The Tu-2 was considered to be better than the Pe-2 as it had a greater range and much greater maximum payload, but it came into production after the factories were already tooled for the Pe-2, and the Tu-2 was much more complicated to build, so priority was given to the Pe-2 production.
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    The Tu-2S didn't carry the dual ShVAK's for air to air engagements. This was intended and used for ground attack. According to the in game description, it was used as a dive bomber, too.
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    Tooz; the Peshka is faster, climbs better and turns much better. Perhaps that fit needs better in that time and place
    even for a bomber?

    Of course the Tu is the one that can carry its own long-range pin-point attack smart munitions system, aka I-16s with bombs....
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    Originally posted by M_Gunz:
    Of course the Tu is the one that can carry its own long-range pin-point attack smart munitions system, aka I-16s with bombs....
    I think you're confusing the TB-3 for the Tu-2 here. The TB-3 is the one that has the parasite I-16s.
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    The Pe-2 was used as both level and dive bomber, at least from mid 42 onwards.

    It also made a very good recon kite, being fast and having a high ceiling.
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    Originally posted by Tooz_69GIAP:
    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by M_Gunz:
    Of course the Tu is the one that can carry its own long-range pin-point attack smart munitions system, aka I-16s with bombs....
    I think you're confusing the TB-3 for the Tu-2 here. The TB-3 is the one that has the parasite I-16s. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    I should know this. I've shot both kinds down before.
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    Another fabulous reply from the experts at Ubi. Thanks a lot for the info gentlemens. This place is almost as good as wikipedia (this is intended as a compliment )
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