I have been thinking about the lack of airpower at sea and then I read K. Rokossovski's thoughts about different navy bombers and wanted to make a suggestion about Navy Fighters.
I think that if we expand navy air power (and we should) we need to first start by just adding one unit now and that would be Navy Fighters. Adding too many different kinds of sea planes at one time may cause unintended consequences.
My thoughts are that Navy Fighters main difference from 'regular' fighters is that they can spot subs and do minimal damage to them while having most of the characteristics of the regular fighters.
In addition, they could be built at a Level 1 airfield thus making them available early.
In addition, they would have to be researched first before you could make navy bombers. Thus creating a 'tree' off of the Navy Fighters and eliminating the tree from the regular fighters to navy bombers.
With these planes ability to spot subs and do minimal damage, I can see researching and building them for shore protection/observation while also building them to travel with your ACC's to find subs and defend your fleet/navy bombers.
Land fighters would then stay on land because of their inability to spot and damage subs while the navy fighters could fight on land but are much more needed to guard ones coast and support the ships at sea.
I think that if we expand navy air power (and we should) we need to first start by just adding one unit now and that would be Navy Fighters. Adding too many different kinds of sea planes at one time may cause unintended consequences.
My thoughts are that Navy Fighters main difference from 'regular' fighters is that they can spot subs and do minimal damage to them while having most of the characteristics of the regular fighters.
In addition, they could be built at a Level 1 airfield thus making them available early.
In addition, they would have to be researched first before you could make navy bombers. Thus creating a 'tree' off of the Navy Fighters and eliminating the tree from the regular fighters to navy bombers.
With these planes ability to spot subs and do minimal damage, I can see researching and building them for shore protection/observation while also building them to travel with your ACC's to find subs and defend your fleet/navy bombers.
Land fighters would then stay on land because of their inability to spot and damage subs while the navy fighters could fight on land but are much more needed to guard ones coast and support the ships at sea.
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