#WarThunder P-38G fuel tank fires are bullcrap!
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Published 2014-10-13
First of all I want to thank Warthunder forum user "Salen_Stormwing" for providing me with the picture of the P-38J outer wing fuel tank and for providing the two following quotes discussing the intercoolers being moved to the leading outer wing edge after the G model and the introduction of external wing fuel tanks in the later J models.
"The outstanding success of the P-38 in the Med and the Pacific was not matched by units of the 8th AF in the UK. These were applied to the long range escort role, equipped with the P-38H. The H model, a stopgap while production of the P-38J was being organised, supplanted the G in May, 1943, and differed primarily in the use of more powerful F-17 engines with automatic engine mixture controls (autolean/autorich), B-33 turbochargers and automatic oil cooler flaps, and a new AN-M2C cannon. The more powerful V-1710F-17 hit the design limits of the leading edge intercoolers, oil coolers and radiators, which limited military power output to 1,240-1,350 HP, only late build aircraft with improved oil coolers could maintain the nominal 1,425 HP."
"The P-38J resolved the intercooler efficiency problems of the earlier subtypes via the use of a core type intercooler in the forward nacelle chin. While prototypes were being tested in early 1943, P-38H production continued. The new nacelle chin provided increased oil cooling capacity, and automatic control of the intercooler vent, resulting in the full availability of the 1,600 HP War Emergency rating of the F-17 powerplant. Other design changes were introduced, including enlarged glycol radiators in the tail booms, in later build aircraft additional outboard leading edge tanks, and two major control system changes. These were hydraulically boosted ailerons which decreased control forces by a factor of six, and electrically actuated dive flaps under the wings which cured the dive compressibility problems. The latter were fitted standard from the P-38J-25-LO, sadly almost all retrofit kits intended for earlier P-38J subtypes were lost in a friendly fire incident in early 1944, thereby delaying the introduction of this important modification to theatre units by several months. Curiously, the modification entered production as a kit in late 1943, yet was not incorporated into production aircraft for another six months, until the P-38J-25-LO, although some P-38J-10/15-LO aircraft were retrofitted in the field."
Source - www.ausairpower.net/P-38-Analysis.html
So it seems that the P-38G aircraft we have in game is a later P-38J model, yet it has to be a P-38G model as Gaijin have stated that the P-38G could never carry bombs and / or rockets (a myth that was debunked by forum user "Salen_Stormwing" again) and the P-38G we have in game has no bombs or rockets.
forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/9398-xp-38-l…
All Comments (16)
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nearly a year later and the P-38 is still made out of tinder and matches.
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How is everyone suddenly coming across this video if you don't mind me asking?
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I always go for P-38s first if I see them because I know Fire.
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This game suffers from too many physics and ends up breaking itself in so many ways.
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Know the video is a bit old by now, but I think it's important to distinguish between internal and inboard, and external and outboard respectively. The P-38 has no external fuel tanks at all (fuel tanks outside of the plane's body), and the whole video is about inboard vs outboard fuel tanks.
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Magic
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Dude the worse 1 is when you get shot in the outer wing (no tank) and it catches, blows your engine, blows your inner tank on that side, and then usually makes it to the inner engine on the other side before your plane "burns down" though a few times I've had the fire spread across the whole fucking plane, and just had to bail because well fuck.
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Well that's crap hope it gets fixed any way i can help?
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It's called a cutaway image
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About the fire spreading - maybe right inboard fuel tank was hit (but not ignited by shell) and the leaking fuel got ignited by fre from second fuel tank?
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This thing catches fire way too fast
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The fire shouldn't go out at all. A self-sealing fuel tank won't do that.
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Is that still a problem in this game, or has it been fixed?
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man the fire kinda works its way thorge the pkane!!
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Well I watched the hole video and didn't think or say@@@@. LOL I agree with you 100%. They are just making the kills easy for less skilled players like me. And in more ways than one War Thunder has @@@@ parts of the game up bad in the last few patches and if they keep it up I will find another game!
