Later during the construction process, the aerial complement was reworked to consist of thirty Ju 87s and twelve Bf 109s, and the Fi 167s were removed altogether.

Graf Zeppelin would have carried 42 aircraft as designed: 12 navalized Junkers Ju 87 'Stuka' dive bombers, 10 Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters, and 20 Fieseler Fi 167 torpedo bombers.

' The ship's primary offensive power would have been its aircraft complement. The Ta 152C could destroy the heaviest enemy bombers with a short burst but the added weight decreased speed and rate of turn.' ' The C model was designed to operate at lower altitudes than the H-model with the same armament package, while adding two more of the MG 151/20 cannons, likewise synchronized as these additional autocannon for the C-model were mounted just ahead of the windscreen, and above the engine's upper rear crankcase. H had the highest operation attitude but C is heavier in firepower: Given there were plenty of Fw190's optimised for ground attack, and two of those variants were designed for torpedo bombing, then a Ta152C optimised for bombing and dropping torps is not a big stretch. Ta152H was a high level interceptor, the ones on the GZ are the Ta152C, with a different wing and engine designed for mid-altitude operations. the strongest configuration was equipped with 30mm cannon but it was optimized for anti-air operations Ta-152 had the airframe of a high level agile interceptor. which did served as an effective dive and torpedo bomber.

Stuka may be obsoleted, but it role was later on taken over mostly by Ju-88. Although something like Fw190F's would seem a more logical choice, the mid-altitude version of the Ta152 isn't beyond the realms of possibility, and seems pretty reasonable.Īlso, Ta152 's are some of the best looking planes of the era (totally subjective of course!), and I'd much rather look at them than Stukas (some of the least attractive, albeit iconic, planes of the era) while playing the GZ. Not only that, but at the period of the war that the GZ would have been put into service the Stukas would have been obsolete for years. If you gave it Stukas you'd have to redesign the ship entirely, given that one of the things these planes were renowned for were their complete lack of speed. The entire point of the GZ is it has very fast TB's and DB's.

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