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{{Specs-Card|code=arado-234c-3}}
 
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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
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[[File:GarageImage_Ar234C3.jpg|420px|thumb|left]]
 
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The '''Arado Ar 234 C-3''' is a Rank V German jet bomber with a battle rating of 6.7 (AB) and 7.0 (RB/SB). It was introduced in [[Update 1.70.1945 "Weapons of Victory"]].  
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The '''{{Specs|name}}''' is a rank {{Specs|rank}} German jet bomber {{Battle-rating}}. This jet bomber was introduced in [[Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory"]].  
  
 
== General info ==
 
== General info ==
 
=== Flight Performance ===
 
=== Flight Performance ===
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The Ar 234 C-3 is all you need as a jet bomber. Acceleration is decent and maximum speed at 500 m is 850 km/h when stock. When upgraded, acceleration is great, energy retention is nice and can reach up to 900 km/h IAS at 1,000 m.
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Climb rate is great even when stock. Combining the +3,500 m first spawn altitude and nice climb rate, the Arado Ar 234 C-3 is a great choice for bomber players. The dive speed is '''incredible''' and together with perfect energy retention, you can reach very high speeds in some seconds. Unfortunately, there is no WEP, but it's not that important.
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'''How to land?'''
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Landing is not that hard, but a little dangerous. You can land after a dive as well as when slow. Landing at low speeds is really easy, but here are the steps when landing after a dive:
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# Decrease throttle to 0%, go up at 90° and lose speed.
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# After falling down, open combat flaps, then take-off flaps. Throttle must be about 30%.
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# Open landing gear and landing flaps to lose more speed, landing with negative or 0 degrees (see the ''notes'' for why). Landing gear will extend really fast.
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# You can land at about 300 km/h as well as lower speeds, so don't worry about it.
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# Use brakes and stopping power of cannons to complete your landing!
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'''Some notes''':
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* Do not power the engines off. You may need to throttle up and get more stability.
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* Do not perform hard manoeuvres, you're at high speed after a dive so the pilot can lose its control and may lead to a crash.
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* Flaps are really important for landing, so if you don't have them or they're damaged, decrease speed as much as possible.
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* The mono-landing gear under cockpit placement is strong enough to sustain hard landing.
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* Why 0 or negative degree when landing? There's no landing gear at the back. So approaching at a positive degree may cause the tail to touch the ground and cause the plane to crash.
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* Don't worry about the absence of air brakes, your skill is your brakes. Do manoeuvres in low engine power and lose speed.
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=== Survivability and armour ===
 
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* No armour plating
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* No armour glazing
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* No armour
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* Critical components located at front of aircraft (fuel, pilot, engine, controls)
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* Fuel tanks in the fuselage
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* More fuel tanks located in wings near fuselage
 
  
 
== Armaments ==
 
== Armaments ==
 
=== Offensive armament ===
 
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{{main|MG 151/20 (20 mm)}}
 
{{main|MG 151/20 (20 mm)}}
  
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The Ar 234 C-3 is armed with:
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* 2 x 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon, chin-mounted (250 rpg = 500 total)
 
* 2 x 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon, chin-mounted (250 rpg = 500 total)
  
 
=== Suspended armament ===
 
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{{main|SC250JA (250 kg)|SC500K (500 kg)|SC1000L2 (1,000 kg)}}
  
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The Ar 234 C-3 can be outfitted with the following ordinance:
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* 3 x 250 kg SC250JA bombs (750 kg total)
 
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* 1 x 1000 kg SC1000L2 bomb (1,000 kg total)
 
* 1 x 1000 kg SC1000L2 bomb (1,000 kg total)
 
* 1 x 1000 kg SC1000L2 bomb + 2 x 250 kg SC250JA bombs (1,500 kg total)
 
* 1 x 1000 kg SC1000L2 bomb + 2 x 250 kg SC250JA bombs (1,500 kg total)
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The standard bombs on the Ar 234 C-3 are 3 x 250 kg bombs and 3 x 500 kg bombs. You will have access to them even if your Arado is stock. Additionally, this variant of the Arado possesses 2 x 20 mm MG 151 cannons, so one of the best ways to use your Arado to ensure you can farm RP and SL for your modifications is:
 
The standard bombs on the Ar 234 C-3 are 3 x 250 kg bombs and 3 x 500 kg bombs. You will have access to them even if your Arado is stock. Additionally, this variant of the Arado possesses 2 x 20 mm MG 151 cannons, so one of the best ways to use your Arado to ensure you can farm RP and SL for your modifications is:
  
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'''2.1 - Go back to the airfield and get new bombs'''<br>
 
'''2.1 - Go back to the airfield and get new bombs'''<br>
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If you choose go back to airfield to get new bombs, be aware that unfortunately the Arado does not have any air brakes, which is a problem as it has particularly good energy retention and some pilots may find it hard to safely land.
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If you choose to go back to the airfield to get new bombs, be aware that unfortunately, the Arado does not have any air brakes, which is a problem as it has particularly good energy retention and some pilots may find it hard to safely land.
  
 
When landing the Arado, decrease speed by turning before you reach the airfield (aim to be at 400 km/h or less) then align with the landing strip, activate your flaps and proceed with the landing. If using the landing gear, ensure that you are at extremely low speed before landing or that the landing strip is long enough to stop on. The Arado has extremely good energy retention and is very heavy, so it does take a long time to stop. You can land without gear, which, while obviously dangerous, offers a much better chance to stop in time on shorter landing strips. To do this, land flat on the belly and avoid allowing the wings to touch the ground before you stop moving.
 
When landing the Arado, decrease speed by turning before you reach the airfield (aim to be at 400 km/h or less) then align with the landing strip, activate your flaps and proceed with the landing. If using the landing gear, ensure that you are at extremely low speed before landing or that the landing strip is long enough to stop on. The Arado has extremely good energy retention and is very heavy, so it does take a long time to stop. You can land without gear, which, while obviously dangerous, offers a much better chance to stop in time on shorter landing strips. To do this, land flat on the belly and avoid allowing the wings to touch the ground before you stop moving.
  
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'''2.2 - Search for enemy targets'''<br>
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Once you have dropped your bombs, you can turn your sights to enemy aircraft; the Arado C-3 is quite capable as a fighter, especially in comparison to other German BR 7.0 jets. It doesn't suffer from the same issues as the Me 262, which lacks in power and once it loses energy, often struggles to regain it, or the Ho 229, which can rip its wings very easily in high-G manoeuvres. With the Arado, you won't encounter these kinds of problems, providing you don't attempt to turn fight. The Arado C-3 has the best climb rate of any BR 7.0 German jet. It also possesses a roll rate to rival the Me 262, so with your 4 powerful engines, you have everything you need to take on other jets. As such, once you've finished your bombing run, turn and climb towards the battlefield, and try to maintain altitude above other jets. Once you're reasonably high, pick vulnerable targets and dive in for a pass, taking a shot at them and then moving away to retain your energy. Avoid exceeding 750km/h when stock, as past that the dive can be hard to arrest. Once all modifications have been researched, however, the aircraft gains a reasonable amount of additional leeway before you encounter issues. If everything falls apart, and you gain fighters on your tail, try to keep accelerating if possible and try to bait the enemies near your own team so they can assist you.
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'''Baiting:'''
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The Ar 234 C-3 is a great jet bomber. With its 3,500 m spawn altitude, nice acceleration, energy retention and dive speed, you can easily become bait and set up enemies to be downed by your allies. To do so, climb to 4,000 m, en route to the enemy location, drop your bombs to lighten your load. Once in the vicinity of the enemy start to dive on them. The goal is to keep the enemy aircraft busy chasing you, however, if you happen to get behind one, don't be shy about introducing them to your cannons.
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You can use cockpit periscope to check the type of enemy planes from a very high distance.
  
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'''2.2 - Search for enemy targets'''<br>
 
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Once you have dropped your bombs, you can turn your sights to enemy aircraft; the Arado C-3 is quite capable as a fighter, especially in comparison to other German BR 7.0 jets. It doesn't suffer from the same issues as the Me 262, which lacks in power and once it loses energy, often struggles to regain it, or the Ho 229, which can rip its wings very easily in high-G maneuvers. With the Arado, you won't encounter these kinds of problems, providing you don't attempt to turn fight. The Arado C-3 has the best climb rate of any BR 7.0 German jet. It also possesses a roll rate to rival the Me 262, so with your 4 powerful engines, you have everything you need to take on other jets. As such, once you've finished your bombing run, turn and climb towards the battlefield, and try to maintain altitude above other jets. Once you're reasonably high, pick vulnerable targets and dive in for a pass, taking a shot at them and then moving away to retain your energy. Avoid exceeding 750km/h when stock, as past that the dive can be hard to arrest. Once all modifications have been researched, however, the aircraft gains a reasonable amount of additional leeway before you encounter issues. If everything falls apart, and you gain fighters on your tail, try to keep accelerating if possible and try to bait the enemies near your own team so they can assist you.
 
 
===Manual Engine Control===
 
===Manual Engine Control===
 
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=== Pros and cons ===
 
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'''Pros:'''
 
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* Incredibly fast.
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* Very good at killing individual ground units in AB.
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* Incredibly fast with good acceleration
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* Cannons provide decent air to air performance.
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* Stock payload is very versatile
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* Very good climb rate.
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* Can destroy up to 3 medium tank/4 armored vehicles / 1 Pillbox + a strategic base with 2 x 250kg and 1000kg
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* Four engines provides the much needed speed increase from the previous model.
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* Very good at destroying individual ground units in AB
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* Good acceleration.
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* 2 x MG 151 20 mm cannons provide decent air to air performance with Air target belts as cannons take a while to jam and have a good rate of fire
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* Stock payload is very versatile.
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* Very good climb rate
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* Air spawn at 3,500 meters.
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* Durable flaps that can be used at speeds lower than 550 km/h, even in the landing flap configuration
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* Four engines provides the much-needed speed increase from the previous model
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* Air spawn at 3,500 meters
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* Very good energy retention
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* Has periscope gunsight at top-right of the cockpit, aids in more effective targeting
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* Periscope gunsight helps you identify enemy aircraft types sooner
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* Small target compared to American (B-57s) and British (Canberra) competitors.
  
 
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* While stock, is hard to recover from dives in speeds beyond 750 km/h.
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* Pilot is usually easily killed.
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* While stock, is hard to recover from dives in speeds beyond 750 km/h
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* Can't carry many bombs, which means that you only can destroy 1 enemy base per bomb load.
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* Pilot can be easily knocked out
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* Doesn't have air brakes, which makes landing potentially very dangerous.
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* Can't carry many bombs, which means that you only can destroy 1 enemy base per bomb load
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* No gun sight in the cockpit, you have to rely on perception to aim.
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* Doesn't have air brakes, which when combined with the plane's very good energy retention can make landing potentially very dangerous
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* Worse turn rate than the previous model.
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* No gunsight in the non-scoped cockpit, you have to rely on perception to aim
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* Stock build aircraft handling feels heavy at high altitudes
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* Worse turn rate than the previous model
  
 
== History ==
 
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=== In-game description ===
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"The Arado Ar 234 Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet bomber, built by Arado in Germany during WWII. It was used by the Luftwaffe for reconnaissance from November 1944 and as a fast bomber against Allied targets from December of that year. Despite the fact that late in the war the plane was used only sporadically due to a fuel shortage, it remained a very difficult target to intercept because of its high speed.
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As a bomber, the Ar-234B-2 could carry a payload of up to 2,000 kg and could also be used for reconnaissance."
  
 
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Ar 234 C-3
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Ar 234 C-3
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This page is about the aircraft Ar 234 C-3. For the other version, see Ar 234 B-2.

Description

GarageImage Ar 234 C-3.jpg


The Ar 234 C-3 is a rank V German jet bomber with a battle rating of 8.0 (AB) and 7.3 (RB/SB). This jet bomber was introduced in Update 1.49 "Weapons of Victory".

General info

Flight Performance

The Ar 234 C-3 is all you need as a jet bomber. Acceleration is decent and maximum speed at 500 m is 850 km/h when stock. When upgraded, acceleration is great, energy retention is nice and can reach up to 900 km/h IAS at 1,000 m.

Climb rate is great even when stock. Combining the +3,500 m first spawn altitude and nice climb rate, the Arado Ar 234 C-3 is a great choice for bomber players. The dive speed is incredible and together with perfect energy retention, you can reach very high speeds in some seconds. Unfortunately, there is no WEP, but it's not that important.

How to land?

Landing is not that hard, but a little dangerous. You can land after a dive as well as when slow. Landing at low speeds is really easy, but here are the steps when landing after a dive:

  1. Decrease throttle to 0%, go up at 90° and lose speed.
  2. After falling down, open combat flaps, then take-off flaps. Throttle must be about 30%.
  3. Open landing gear and landing flaps to lose more speed, landing with negative or 0 degrees (see the notes for why). Landing gear will extend really fast.
  4. You can land at about 300 km/h as well as lower speeds, so don't worry about it.
  5. Use brakes and stopping power of cannons to complete your landing!

Some notes:

  • Do not power the engines off. You may need to throttle up and get more stability.
  • Do not perform hard manoeuvres, you're at high speed after a dive so the pilot can lose its control and may lead to a crash.
  • Flaps are really important for landing, so if you don't have them or they're damaged, decrease speed as much as possible.
  • The mono-landing gear under cockpit placement is strong enough to sustain hard landing.
  • Why 0 or negative degree when landing? There's no landing gear at the back. So approaching at a positive degree may cause the tail to touch the ground and cause the plane to crash.
  • Don't worry about the absence of air brakes, your skill is your brakes. Do manoeuvres in low engine power and lose speed.
Characteristics
Stock
Max Speed
(km/h at 0 m - Sea level) 		Max altitude
(meters) 		Turn time
(seconds) 		Rate of climb
(meters/second) 		Take-off run
(meters)
AB RB AB RB AB RB
847 841 13,000 30.2 31.0 23.9 22.4 1,500
Upgraded
Max Speed
(km/h at ?,000 m) 		Max altitude (meters) Turn time (seconds) Rate of climb
(meters/second) 		Take-off run (meters)
AB RB AB RB AB RB
 ?  ? 13,000  ??.?  ??.?  ?.?  ?.? 1,500

Details

Features
Combat flap Take-off flap Landing flap Air brakes Arrestor gear
✓ ✓ ✓ X X
Limits
Wing-break speed
(km/h) 		Gear limit
(km/h) 		Combat flap
(km/h) 		Max Static G
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1,000 400 550 ~11 ~5
Optimal velocities
Ailerons
(km/h) 		Rudder
(km/h) 		Elevators
(km/h) 		Radiator
(km/h)
< 500 < 500 < 650 > 250

Survivability and armour

  • No armour
  • Fuel tanks in the fuselage

Armaments

Offensive armament

Main article: MG 151/20 (20 mm)

The Ar 234 C-3 is armed with:

  • 2 x 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon, chin-mounted (250 rpg = 500 total)

Suspended armament

Main articles: SC250JA (250 kg), SC500K (500 kg), SC1000L2 (1,000 kg)

The Ar 234 C-3 can be outfitted with the following ordinance:

  • 3 x 250 kg SC250JA bombs (750 kg total)
  • 3 x 500 kg SC500K bombs (1,500 kg total)
  • 1 x 1000 kg SC1000L2 bomb (1,000 kg total)
  • 1 x 1000 kg SC1000L2 bomb + 2 x 250 kg SC250JA bombs (1,500 kg total)

Usage in battles

The standard bombs on the Ar 234 C-3 are 3 x 250 kg bombs and 3 x 500 kg bombs. You will have access to them even if your Arado is stock. Additionally, this variant of the Arado possesses 2 x 20 mm MG 151 cannons, so one of the best ways to use your Arado to ensure you can farm RP and SL for your modifications is:

1- Equip the 3 x 500 kg bombs and start the match at the air spawn point.

2- On maps such as Berlin, move to one of the enemy bases and drop your 3 x 500 kg bombs. 1.5 tonnes worth of bombs are enough to destroy a base, so from there you have two options to choose from:

2.1 - Go back to the airfield and get new bombs
If you choose to go back to the airfield to get new bombs, be aware that unfortunately, the Arado does not have any air brakes, which is a problem as it has particularly good energy retention and some pilots may find it hard to safely land.

When landing the Arado, decrease speed by turning before you reach the airfield (aim to be at 400 km/h or less) then align with the landing strip, activate your flaps and proceed with the landing. If using the landing gear, ensure that you are at extremely low speed before landing or that the landing strip is long enough to stop on. The Arado has extremely good energy retention and is very heavy, so it does take a long time to stop. You can land without gear, which, while obviously dangerous, offers a much better chance to stop in time on shorter landing strips. To do this, land flat on the belly and avoid allowing the wings to touch the ground before you stop moving.

2.2 - Search for enemy targets
Once you have dropped your bombs, you can turn your sights to enemy aircraft; the Arado C-3 is quite capable as a fighter, especially in comparison to other German BR 7.0 jets. It doesn't suffer from the same issues as the Me 262, which lacks in power and once it loses energy, often struggles to regain it, or the Ho 229, which can rip its wings very easily in high-G manoeuvres. With the Arado, you won't encounter these kinds of problems, providing you don't attempt to turn fight. The Arado C-3 has the best climb rate of any BR 7.0 German jet. It also possesses a roll rate to rival the Me 262, so with your 4 powerful engines, you have everything you need to take on other jets. As such, once you've finished your bombing run, turn and climb towards the battlefield, and try to maintain altitude above other jets. Once you're reasonably high, pick vulnerable targets and dive in for a pass, taking a shot at them and then moving away to retain your energy. Avoid exceeding 750km/h when stock, as past that the dive can be hard to arrest. Once all modifications have been researched, however, the aircraft gains a reasonable amount of additional leeway before you encounter issues. If everything falls apart, and you gain fighters on your tail, try to keep accelerating if possible and try to bait the enemies near your own team so they can assist you.

Baiting:

The Ar 234 C-3 is a great jet bomber. With its 3,500 m spawn altitude, nice acceleration, energy retention and dive speed, you can easily become bait and set up enemies to be downed by your allies. To do so, climb to 4,000 m, en route to the enemy location, drop your bombs to lighten your load. Once in the vicinity of the enemy start to dive on them. The goal is to keep the enemy aircraft busy chasing you, however, if you happen to get behind one, don't be shy about introducing them to your cannons.

You can use cockpit periscope to check the type of enemy planes from a very high distance.

Manual Engine Control

MEC elements
Mixer Pitch Radiator Supercharger Turbocharger
Oil Water Type
Not controllable Not controllable Not controllable Not controllable Separate Not controllable Not controllable

Modules

Tier Flight performance Survivability Weaponry
I Fuselage Repair, Compressor
II Airframe ETC 1001 I
III Wing Repair, Engine Offensive 20 mm
IV Cover New 20 mm Cannons

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Incredibly fast with good acceleration
  • Stock payload is very versatile
  • Can destroy up to 3 medium tank/4 armored vehicles / 1 Pillbox + a strategic base with 2 x 250kg and 1000kg
  • Very good at destroying individual ground units in AB
  • 2 x MG 151 20 mm cannons provide decent air to air performance with Air target belts as cannons take a while to jam and have a good rate of fire
  • Very good climb rate
  • Durable flaps that can be used at speeds lower than 550 km/h, even in the landing flap configuration
  • Four engines provides the much-needed speed increase from the previous model
  • Air spawn at 3,500 meters
  • Very good energy retention
  • Has periscope gunsight at top-right of the cockpit, aids in more effective targeting
  • Periscope gunsight helps you identify enemy aircraft types sooner
  • Small target compared to American (B-57s) and British (Canberra) competitors.

Cons:

  • While stock, is hard to recover from dives in speeds beyond 750 km/h
  • Pilot can be easily knocked out
  • Can't carry many bombs, which means that you only can destroy 1 enemy base per bomb load
  • Doesn't have air brakes, which when combined with the plane's very good energy retention can make landing potentially very dangerous
  • No gunsight in the non-scoped cockpit, you have to rely on perception to aim
  • Stock build aircraft handling feels heavy at high altitudes
  • Worse turn rate than the previous model

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In-game description

"The Arado Ar 234 Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet bomber, built by Arado in Germany during WWII. It was used by the Luftwaffe for reconnaissance from November 1944 and as a fast bomber against Allied targets from December of that year. Despite the fact that late in the war the plane was used only sporadically due to a fuel shortage, it remained a very difficult target to intercept because of its high speed.

As a bomber, the Ar-234B-2 could carry a payload of up to 2,000 kg and could also be used for reconnaissance."

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Germany jet aircraft
Ar 234  Ar 234 B-2 · Ar 234 C-3
He 162  He 162 A-1 · He 162 A-2
Ho 229  Ho 229 V3
Me 163  Me 163 B · Me 163 B-0
Me 262 A  Me 262 A-1a · Me 262 A-1a/Jabo · Me 262 A-1a/U1 · Me 262 A-1/U4 · Me 262 A-2a
Me 262 C  Me 262 C-1a · Me 262 C-2b
Tornado  ◄Tornado IDS WTD61 · ◄Tornado IDS MFG · ◄Tornado IDS ASSTA1
West Germany  Alpha Jet A
USA  ◄F-84F
  ◄CL-13A Mk 5 · ◄CL-13B Mk.6 · ◄F-86K
  ◄F-104G
  ◄F-4F Early · ◄F-4F
USSR  ◊MiG-15bis
  ◊MiG-19S
  ◄MiG-21 SPS-K · ◊MiG-21MF · ◊MiG-21bis-SAU · ◊MiG-21 "Lazur-M"
  ◊MiG-23BN · ◊MiG-23MF · ◊MiG-23MLA
  ◊MiG-29 · ◄MiG-29G
  ◊Su-22UM3K · ◊Su-22M4
  ◊IL-28
Poland  ◊Lim-5P
Britain  ◄Sea Hawk Mk.100 · ◌Hunter F.58 (Swiss)
Italy  ◄G.91 R/3 · ◄G.91 R/4

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