I love it when you make planes that seem that they would never be made in real life, but also seem the could be brought up in a board meeting.

I love how we skipped 105 and 120 and went straight to 152mm. This isn’t a warthog, this is a rhino

Engineer: "Sometimes you need a little less gun." (The Engineer was found 3 months later in a ditch.)

The props are supersonic. I hope the crew doesn't mind the absurdly loud sound generated... (cough cough Thunderscreech cough cough)

Therapist: Twin engine XP-55 on crack with a howitzer doesn't exist it can't hurt you. Twin engine XP-55 with a howitzer:

This game needs to release in early access already, it's pretty dang polished for this point in development and the hype train is approaching the speed of light.

Next up 406 mm. Another use for this aircraft would be a heavy interceptor with proximity fused ammunition. As well as a bunker buster.

that opening skit was incredible, i love it

Honestly, that giant drum magazine in the center of the plane looks ridiculous but is also awesome. It give the plane a very interesting and unique silhouette.

Couple of things: Having the drum Magazine at the center of gravity is incredibly important in a plane like this. Very well done! Ammo is make up a significant amount of weight, so having the drum at center of gravity is the only way to give the pilot any chance of hitting consecutive shots, since there are no fly by wire aim assist shenanigans going given the level of tech. Also, given enough fuel capacity or even mid air refueling (aerial refueling was invented and used even before WW2) this this could be a potent ASW / convoy raid aircraft. Stick a radar on it, give it another seat for a navigator, done... Though the crews will probably hate it given the lack of accomodations for missions that last so long.

As the Germans, Italians, Americans, and Japanese would say, YES, yes you can :)

could you imagine the force on the plane as the massive autoloader quickly spins after every shot fired? the weight distribution as the plane becomes off balance as the autoloader is slowly drained of ammo?

Seems like this could have been a candidate for a lifting body to accomodate the ammo drum.

This is gloriously insane, like someone saw either the Mosquito Tsetse Fly or the B-25g/H and went 'needs more gun'. :D

It is similar to the P.108 Series 2 with a 102mm cannon installed on it

8:18 are we just gonna forget about that massive tail strike?

also, the biggest gun mounted on a WW2 plane is a 102mm anti ship cannon mounted in a Italian heavy bomber, without bombs and it had a analog computer and a ballistic gun sight so it could actually get close to hitting something you were aiming at, and it had an auto loader.

If the gun was more in line with the center of mass and thrust you will have less trouble with recoil and possible offset the cockpit to compensate for the change in the air frame.

A 152 would be quite large as a destroyers main gun, it has been done historically in a few cases but you'd find it more often on light cruisers

Reminds me of the sub hunter version of the Mosquito. 57mm autocannon. Very effective, when the auto part worked. sometimes jammed when too high a G force was pulled.

That is one sexy aircraft! I was totally thinking 'Moonbat' as you were building it and I'm glad to see it wasn't lost on you, either. As for the concept of aircraft attacking and sinking ships using a large calibre gun... I seem to remember hearing or reading somewhere about a B-25 (either a G or a H, I can't remember which) sinking a Japanese destroyer with 5 rounds of 75mm. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but I'm sure I heard it somewhere. Oh, and the thing with the Sheriden's recoil - I think the thing was that the gunner had to quickly move his hand away from the breach when the gun was fired, or otherwise run the risk of a broken wrist.

I would 100% call this something like the Manta ray or something

Heyo, I'm the fella who made both the muzzle brakes mods, thanks for featuring it in the vid! If you want me to spin up a 152mm one for you I'd be down. TBH it is a rather obvious thing I missed

you could make it way smaller if you make the propellant load way smaller, since a lot of the speed is coming from the plane already

Funfact: In WW2 they actually mounted 75mm howitzers to naval raiding aircraft like B-25s and B-24s. However, the squadrons operating these planes noticed that for commerce raiding, what they needed was *suppressing fire*. The attack method for these planes was usually a technique called "skip bombing", where you drop a bomb so that it skips across the surface of the water like a rock. In order to do this, you have to fly parallel to the water's surface for a pretty substantial distance, meanwhile every gun on the ship your targeting is firing at you. The 75 was decent enough but most crews could only fire it 3-4 times on an attack run, so a couple of squadrons replaced these cannons with a whole bunch of .50 caliber machine guns.

You should do a big wing fighter like the ho 229, maybe you could do a prop punk spin to it?

This is, and was, pretty common to see planes with 57mm to 75mm during ww2, but afterwards, the U.S had been mounting 105mm M40 Recoilless Rifles on the A-4 Skyhawk. But seeing a 152mm on a plane is just outright terrifying. Keep up the good work Messier!

The P-63 Kingcobra had a 37mm cannon which was the same caliber as the ones they had on the Stuart light tanks, so yes, you can put a tank cannon on an aircraft

I'd love to see something like the Blackburn B.20... a retracting hull flying boat

"Where did my tank autoloader go?!" 0:03 me with a suspiciously Tank Autoloader shaped stomach: uuuh idk, someone else must've taken it

What if the Hs 129 and KV-2 had a baby 😂

actually, something like this was made during ww2 from the us. the XA-38 had a 75mm cannon and i think 2 or 4 mgs. however, the italians during WW1 came out with the P. 108A serie 2 and it had a absolutely massive 102mm cannon. i think that if this probably had maybe 10 to 15 rounds of ammunition the design you made might be able to fly, but to fly well you’d probably have to have like 3-6 rounds of ammo that would be used sparingly (note i’m not a plane nerd so i’m probably wrong about most things) but overall cool plane! 👍 (i’m talking about with the ammo if this were to actually be made irl)

To compensate for the recoil I think it would have been advisable to make the gun point a few degrees downward relative to the fuselage centerline in a way that would have it pass through the CG. Lovely design

This is one of your most interesting designs yet. I love these odd concept aircrafts

The naval colors on that thing look SICK. Great video!

Messier: Makes a tank cannon plane AC130 Gunship: Am I a joke to you?

I love the looks, definitely would be daunting if you were a sailor on a cruiser and saw a flight of these incoming. I imagine if such a gun was mounted there would have to be some type of recoilless system to prevent the aircraft from stalling instantly, or destroying its airframe

I think aircraft guns are pitched up or down from the centerline of the plane depending on it's role: up for a fighter, down for ground attack. Might help direct the force of the recoil closer to the CG if you pitch it down a few degrees.

This thing looks soooo sick man. Even the camo is really nice and fits perfectly to this masterpiece of plane. Keep up the god like work 💪👍

Between the armed smuggling plane and this…. M82 has officially gone insane…. 😂. But in all seriousness, this thing is freaking awesome and I love it! Great work as always!

Wait until we put railguns on planes 💀

This is really awesome, dude. What is this? Very neat design. I am so, so subscribing.

Hello. One of my all time favorite Flight Combat video games is Crimson Skies. And I've always wondered, can some on the aircraft in that game actual fly? I was wondering if you could recreate some of the aircraft from that game in Fly Out and test to see if they would actually work.

The design is like a mix between Beech Starship, F7U and XP-67. Very cool.

Hey messier great video got to see you streaming on the flyout server yesterday

Fantastic design! It looks like a concept that might have been forward in the late 40's when aviation was sort of in between the prop and jet ages.

There are plenty of ground/surface vessel attack craft with "Tank" Cannons in them... what you are talking about is an Artillery Piece... while they are used on Tank Chasis, they tend not to be tanks but Self Propelled Artillery or Tank Destroyers (which is a weird designation to me because its still just Self Propelled Artillery)...

Incredible, I wanna see part 2 of that flying wing

Finally someone answered my question. For years I have been waiting for this.

T-95: where did tank autoloader go? Me with a suspiciously Tank Autoloader shaped stomach: 0:03

He took the ¨gun with wings¨ and ran with it

And I thought the F4 was a flying brick xD great vid dude!

That pun was a crime against humanity, I loved it.

I just love how it looks.

Always a good day when M82 uploads

You fire the gun, the boat's hull shatters. Plot twist ,the pilot's spine shatters as well.

5:32 _laugh track plays_ Man I love these videos

WWII German engineers: alright hear me out, what if we got MORE GUN?

Now we need a Gustav cannon (or, if you want it to be “practical” a Dora) cannon on a plane 😂

Love it - absurd but weirdly plausible

Lol “i guess thats a little bit of recoil” btw i love love ur vids

This looks incredibly sick

I was eating when messier made the drag joke. I stopped chewing and my dog stopped coughing… time literally came to a halt.

imagine being a soldier then seeing a fucking 152mm he ROUND going for your face

Very interesting design, you always make cool stuff and I'm excited for the official release. However, it's hard to tell in the video, but I think the props should be rotating the opposite directions, they way they currently rotate both of them are critical engines, meaning if one fails, you see the worst performance loss due to how and where the props move the air. Other than that, great design, I'll definitely try making something similar when I get the chance.

I LOVE the design of this thing! It could be a tank destroyer too! Some strike aircraft during WW2 had this exact concept, just a much lower caliber. Notably the German Henschel HS 129 for example

Absolutely beautiful

They mounted a giant cannon to a P-108 bomber during ww2. I don't remember what size but they did it.

You're so entertaining, I'm instantly subscribed. This game looks awesome, are the physics in it accurate?

What a gorgeous plane ❤️

looks like a moonbat shed its tail, grew canards, chomped the tail gunner off a b17, then gulped down a T-72 cartoon style

My idea of a ww2 fighter is a Fuselage of the i-15/i16 (stretched), a engine of the il-2, a tail of the p-36, wings of the p-39, guns and a canopy of the p-51 and the cannons of the spitfire.

Next time you could make a “orbital bombardment” airplane, so just a howitzer on the underbelly of the plane pointing downward. Love your vidz❤

Germans tried this in WW2 on test bed planes while on the ground. Recoil totally buckled the airframe and they gave up on it.

Considering the advent of guided artillery munitions, a flight of what amounts to flying M777's is pretty hilarious.

Ngl, I dig the design, even though the gun caliber is absurd. Anyways, excellent video 🎉🎉

Like the guns on planes weren’t already big enough.

The 1943 Mosquito FB Mk. XVIII Tsetse had a 57mm 1/4 pound anti tank gun fitted to it. Wikipedia makes it sound like the pilots prefered to use its rockets rather than the gun to take out enemy U-boats. Still a cool idea though. Great video.

The UK did mount a 25 pounder gun in a Mosquito. The recoil virtually stopped the aircraft, but it was very effective anti-ship and anti-sub system. Apparently the navigator was not thrilled with the effort and contortions required to reload!

Italy actually kind of did this irl, they mounted a 102mm cannon on a P.108, a mid thirties 4 engined heavy bomber. This was also made to hunt ships (but obviously went nowhere)

Love seeing the tail gunner get dragged across the tarmac

Who let bro cook? Nah but seriously that is some crazy stuff right there, keep it going man

Messier upload is always a good day

This is a cool channel. I'd love to see you make the Wyvern or Strike Wyvern from Ace Combat. That would be sick.

A10; "I can almost stall when firing my gun." Messier; 'Hold my beer."

i think you should do some more absurd things like this or like the spinner. that's very fun

Bro really went with the dragging me down pun

That intro was gold.

The knee slapper dad jokes/puns never get old lol

The xa-38 "grizzly" proved this was possible, it had a 75mm, along with the Italian p108a, which had a 102mm, and a few German aircraft that had 75mm guns.

Rock on dude, this is a hot meme.

This thing looks like a drawing you'd see in a 1930s Popular Mechanics article alongside the Bell Aracuda.

this aircraft looks seriously awesome

This is like the anti-naval version of a PBJ-1 or an Hs 129. Just mount the biggest gun you can fit into a plane and throw it at the ground.

This feels like something you’d see on a history channel documentary on WW2 German super weapons

What would be really fun is maybe you get the center of gravity right and put the gun facing backwards so when you’re attacking enemy you turn around and let the tailgunner shoot the ship as you’re already running away

Love it! One more great creation. And I do like those real world planes where they just build a plane around a big gun. The A-10 is of course the most well know... But boy, there where some big gunned WWII aircraft too. Not 152mm howitzer size, what I know off. But proper tank calibre guns. With the lagers being over 100 mm I believe. Even the modern AC-130 gunship has variants with 105 mm howitzer. May all be retired now however.

AAF camo idea: Clearly, someone's been dipping into the ol' "Arcade game bosses for tanks," idea, and the Army borrowed a couple planes to see if the idea has merit on ground.

Messier: can we put 152mm howitiser on plane? messier fon Braun: i had such project... AC-130 Gunship engineer: why are you asking?! didn`t seen mine product?

This is the type of aircraft I was hoping to design when flyout came out, for prop punk.