Tupolev SB-2M-100A

2nd Bomber Group

Chinese Nationalist bomber force in the war against Japan 1939-1941

The SB prototype flew with a pair of imported, 730-hp Wright Cyclone air-cooled radial engines.
But these soon gave way to 760-hp Hispano-Suiza HS12Ybrs liquid-cooled V12s and their license-built derivatives,
Klimov M.100s. Production SB-2M-100s had prominent, car-type radiators and two-bladed, adjustable-pitch propellors.
The propellor hubs featured prominent dogs for the truck-driven Hucks starters used by the Red air forces.
Exhaust pipes and hot radiator air exited the cowling via a neat slot just aft of the leading edge of the wing.
Four wing tanks could hold up to 417 gallons of fuel, but only the inner, 90-gallon tanks were filled in normal service. 
Four to six 220-lb FAB-100 bombs could be carried nose-up in the internal bomb bay. Fixed, non-retractable skis could be fitted for winter operation.

Defensive armament was in some respects well ahead of the state of the art at the time. The mountings showed little 
improvement over those of the First World War. Two 7.62-mm machineguns fired from vertical slots in the glazed nose. 
Traverse was very limited. Another ShKAS fired from a ring and post mounting under the sliding canopy of the rear cockpit. 
A fourth gun was mounted in a hatch in the lower rear fuselage. But the ShKAS machinegun itself was an extraordinary weapon 
developed especially for aircraft use. Using a special 7.62-mm cartridge, each gun could fire 1800 rounds per minute at a time 
when most foreign weapons fired 500-800 rpm. 

The improved, SB-2M-100A model received uprated, 860-hp M-100A engines and three-bladed propellors with spinners and Hucks dogs, 
but was otherwise externally similar to the SB-2M-100. The bomb bay could now carry a horizontally stowed 1100-lb FAB-500. 
External racks could accomodate an aditional 660 lbs of bombs under the wing roots. 

updated by "Karl von Bahnhoff"




Readme - original skin

By Jamie Richards, Harry McWilliams, and Nathan Kell

A Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu "Nick" based on the Bf110g skin, but for use in place of the Bf110c.  Please ignore the headless tail gunner!  Removing the poor man's noggin was the only way to position the pilot far enough forward in the cockpit to be visible.  C'est la vie!

The 3D shape of this aircraft has been modified to better reflect that of a Ki-45 (radial engines and a single rudder) instead of a Bf110c (in-line engines and twin rudders).

For use with Charles Gunst's ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Control Panel. 
To install, just unzip the *.TPC and *.3DZ files into your EAW directory.

For more EAW skins, check out these sites:

  Airbuddha's: http://thehangar.dogfighter.com/
  Cord's: http://eaw.thrustmaster.com/
  -E's: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/6644/
  Fox2's: http://fox2.ch/fichiers/eaw/fichier_downloads_eaw.htm
  JG5's Skins: http://www.madasafish.com/jerry/jg5/html/skins.html
  Manduca's: http://kikegg.batcave.net
  Lentulaiuvue 34's Skins: http://www.muodos.fi/LLv34/
  Major Lee's Aerodrome: http://www.kvi.net/~majorlee
  Migge's: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4145/
  Mosi's: http://members.friendfactory.com/cmosi/index.htm
  Relent's: http://www.sonic.net/jcam/eawskins/

Skin by Jamie Richards, 3D modifications by Harry McWilliams and Nathan Kell

Feel free to contact Jamie with any questions or comments at...
	Email: james.richards@utoronto.ca

7/18/01
SB-2 VVS revised
Karel's Sb-2 from the Nick was so good I just had to paint up a 
new VVS version...for summer...I'll do a winter one shortly.
All credit to Karel for using a much better 3dz than mine which was
based on Jamie's Helen..the Nick 3dz is much better!
Enjoy and feel free to modify!

Mus
http://12iap.topcities.com/musgrove.htm
