The Lysander

[The_Drill_SGT]

The Lysander is a British "Army Cooperation" plane. Think US Piper Cub (L-4)

Anyway it is unarmed and used as aerial Recon.

So no weapons = no kills = no experience?

How does it get better? or hero's?

Flying an unarmed plane behind enemy lines is heroic

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[bebro]

It's blinding the enemy with intensive blue paint

Nah, I don't have AC yet, but from the 1.20 equipment file it has the "nopurchase" trait. So it's probably not meant to be a "real" combat unit since (it seems) you cannot buy it normally. Its appearance could be for recon only, or related to certain triggers - hard to say without seeing where it's used in-game

[The_Drill_SGT]

it shows up in COBRA as a non core unit.

Don't make fun of the plane

It was mainly used to land SOE and OSS agents in France. Even ballsier than flying around unarmed...

In August 1941 a new squadron, No. 138 (Special Duties), was formed to undertake missions for the Special Operations Executive to maintain clandestine contact with the French Resistance. Among its aircraft were Lysander Mk IIIs, which flew over and landed in occupied France. While general supply drops could be left to the rest of No. 138's aircraft, the Lysander could insert and remove agents from the continent or retrieve Allied aircrew who had been shot down over occupied territory and had evaded capture. For this role the Mk IIIs were fitted with a fixed ladder over the port side to hasten access to the rear cockpit and a large drop tank under the belly.In order to slip in unobtrusively the Lysanders were painted matte black; operations almost always took place within a week of a full moon, as moonlight was essential for navigation. The aircraft undertook such duties until the liberation of France in 1944.

The Lysanders flew from secret airfields at Newmarket and later Tempsford, but used regular RAF stations to fuel-up for the actual crossing, particularly RAF Tangmere. Flying without any navigation equipment other than a map and compass, Lysanders would land on short strips of land, such as fields, marked out by four or five torches. They were designed to carry one passenger in the rear cockpit, but in case of urgent necessity three could be carried in extreme discomfort. The pilots of No. 138 and, from early 1942, No. 161 Squadron transported 101 agents to, and recovered 128 agents from Nazi-occupied Europe.[12] Germany knew little about the British aircraft and wished to study one. Soldiers captured an intact Lysander in March 1942 after its pilot was unable to destroy it after a crash, but a train hit the truck carrying the Lysander, destroying the cargo.

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[Razz1]

In the AT and AA Mod you can buy recon planes. They are useful in some scenarios.