SIX! New planes for IL2-GB announced!

[PaperPilot]

7 hours ago, XQ_Lothar29 said:

It's better if they're version F!!

I would like to see both. But If they could only do one I think it should be the F-2 or F-4. The Bf-110 C were few in number on the Eastern Front from the beggining so I know I shouldn't expect such an aircraft to come this way. But still, I think the Bf-110F would fill in many gaps in the Pilot Career mode. 

On 3/24/2026 at 4:31 AM, Kurfurst said:

The C series were already a "fixed" Me 210 airframe, very similar to the 410 expect for having weaker DB 605s instead of 603s. 

That is very interesting. Thanks Kurfurst 

[Bell]

10 hours ago, LukeFF said:

Please keep in mind that some of these projects, like the glider and the IAR80, are created by 3rd-party modelers, so development time and costs are significantly reduced. They also provide valuable experience for these teams - the I-153, for instance, was made by the same person who built the IAR80.

yeah what BlitzPig_EL said was really puzzling.

[BraveSirRobin]

27 minutes ago, Bell said:

yeah what BlitzPig_EL said was really puzzling.

No, it really wasn’t.  He’s right.

[Art-J]

At this point in time, current and further development of content for GB is driven mostly by 3rd party enthusiasts as their afterwork hobby projects. Nothing wrong about that and 1C team has long encouraged 3rd parties to come forward and assist in keeping the old sim alive.

However, it just means - if you want these Spanish war planes and maps to be added, you must find a group of guys willing (and capable) to build them in their spare time. 

[Bell]

46 minutes ago, Art-J said:

However, it just means - if you want these Spanish war planes and maps to be added, you must find a group of guys willing (and capable) to build them in their spare time. 

I didn't mean IL-2 GB by saying dedicated Spainish Civil War fight sim...

[MDzmitry]

12 минут назад, Bell сказал:

I didn't mean IL-2 GB by saying dedicated Spainish Civil War fight sim...

This part of the forum is dedicated to Il-2 GB, assumptions are to be expected 

[Bulldog]

Heinkel 115. Gimme, gimme, gimme!

[BlitzPig_EL]

The sim, any sim really, needs more float planes and flying boats.

Be sure.

 

[Bulldog]

Fairey Seafox?

 

[BlitzPig_EL]

For the Fleet Air Arm I am thinking more along the lines of the Walrus and Sunderland...

 

For the US, and many other users, of course the PBY, and the Curtiss SOC.

Edited March 28 by BlitzPig_EL

[Bulldog]

Some pics I took of the Sunderland at RAF Hendon (not very good lighting). And those two chaps are Brazo and Bulldog of Loose Deuce squadron.

BD

[sevenless]

4 hours ago, Bulldog said:

👍 Spitfire Mk I, Mk IIa. That´ll be my dream for the game.

or a LF MkVb with clipped wings...

[BlitzPig_EL]

 

The Spitfire is such a supremely beautiful aircraft.

[Avimimus]

On 3/27/2026 at 1:48 PM, BlitzPig_EL said:

You misunderstood me, it's nothing personal, and I actually find the Heinkel fighters quite interesting.

It's just that being in the combat flight sim world for 20+ years and seeing countless posts wanting obscure aircraft or conflict zones (Spanish Civil War, Japanese conquest of China in the 30s, Italian/Austro-Hungarian front in WW1, etc ...) I know it's never going to happen.  I don't like it, but these things are very niche and the audience for them is nowhere near as large as the Western European or Russian fronts in WW2.  Developers have to go where the money is, and it's not in these "lesser" fronts, where you and I would like to play.

Sad but true.

Well, this is likely true. However, a few observations:

1) First, I don't think people dreaming about such things is a problem. Dreaming only really becomes an issue when people think that something is very likely (leading to disappointment), or feel somehow entitled for it to come into existence. However, unlike the 8th Airforce and the B-17 (which has appeared in many past flight simulators and thus many people would assume) - a lot of these theatres are so rare that people can't make such an assumption. We can't really be that disappointed if it doesn't happen.

2) People said that the Eastern European front would never be modelled as it was too niche. Oleg Maddox changed that. The creation of the sim caused a lot of people to become interested in the theatre of operations... so we shouldn't entirely assume that people have to already be interested before the sim is created.

3) The Spanish Civil War was actually featured in a commercially released combat flight simulator (Luftwaffe Commander).

4) We've seen third party partnerships sometimes bring relatively obscure things to market in the past (although a full module would seem less likely than a Collector Plane - it looks like the Karelia team might ultimately bring three or more Finnish aircraft to market and a map - so essentially a half-module).

 

[PaperPilot]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

 

The Spitfire is such a supremely beautiful aircraft.

Agreed. I would like to see the Spitfire Mk.XVI as that was used in Belgium and Western Germany, no?

[Avimimus]

I'd kind-of like to see an FR-47 Seafire. It was the final spitfire variant and fixed a lot of the flaws in the later variants. Plus contra-rotating props.

[PaperPilot]

54 minutes ago, Avimimus said:

I'd kind-of like to see an FR-47 Seafire. It was the final spitfire variant and fixed a lot of the flaws in the later variants. Plus contra-rotating props.

Where in IL-2 Great Battles would it fit? Normandy?

[Avimimus]

59 minutes ago, PaperPilot said:

Where in IL-2 Great Battles would it fit? Normandy?

Korea. The 800 NAS flew them in 1950 (a bit early for the semi-dynamic campaign, but doable for a scripted campaign). They conducted raids on both coasts of North Korea until the Seafires were all too worn out, and then returned with Seafires.

[PaperPilot]

4 hours ago, Avimimus said:

Korea. The 800 NAS flew them in 1950 (a bit early for the semi-dynamic campaign, but doable for a scripted campaign). They conducted raids on both coasts of North Korea until the Seafires were all too worn out, and then returned with Seafires.

That’s very interesting. Thanks 

[BlitzPig_EL]

The FAA probably suffered more Seafire losses from deck landings than they did from enemy action.  The Spitfire made a terrible base to build a carrier aircraft from.

[PaperPilot]

7 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

 

The Spitfire is such a supremely beautiful aircraft.

It sure is. 

[Avimimus]

9 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

The FAA probably suffered more Seafire losses from deck landings than they did from enemy action.  The Spitfire made a terrible base to build a carrier aircraft from.

Although this is true of any force that didn't see much enemy action... or any aircraft that served in peace time. The number of pilots lost during the Cold War for instance is quite horrific. In contrast, aircraft like the I-16 do reasonably well by that metric because so many were destroyed on the ground or in the air within a few years of being built.

That said, it would be quite interesting to compare the accident rates of the Seafire with other contemporary types! For instance, the ratio of landing attempts to crashes.

[Kapteeni45]

 I always have been early ww2 planes fan. Korea, Vietnam and jets are not for me . Even i will buy Korea. But i quess ther are not too many old school virtual pilots who flies in eastern  front. 

Edited March 30 by Kapteeni45
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[DetCord]

On 3/26/2026 at 9:50 PM, PaperPilot said:

I still think that the Bf-109 G-10 will eventually need to be made for Bodenplatte Career. But you are right in the fact that other planes need to be explored in the game other than just another Bf-109 before the G-10 is made.  

I actually started a mod project using the G6 AS as the airframe model with altered flight data for the DB 605D, an updated paintkit (template), custom liveries, etc. I really should get around to finishing it. 

[DanielZockt]

On 3/26/2026 at 12:58 PM, LuftManu said:

Bf-110 F (Besides the low powered E model, this one could cover the gap till the G appears in Kuban timeframe, offering better heavy fighter capabilities in the air).

The BF 110 gap could also be partially bridged by giving the Bf 110E access to the DB 601 (P) as a modification or replacing the DB 601A engine it has right now due to it never being used it in serial production. I still dont understand why it hasnt been added/changed after being in the game for so long now.

Edited March 30 by DanielZockt
Fixing qoute being funky