Fellow propellerheads, I need your assistance!

[Scorpion86]

I have been collecting information on the P-2 Neptune for a while and although I managed to find a great deal of unclassified information, I am now at my limit.

Does any one of you, my fellow CMANOers, have information on the loadouts of the Neptune, versions P2V-4 to P2V-7?
I ask because in the P2V-4's Standard Aircraft Characteristics card the armament that it can carry is descriminated, including up to 4 1200lb torpedoes, while the P2V-5's SAC card only lists "torpedoes, mines and bombs carried in the fuselage" up to 12000lbs. However, in the next page, it lists a 2 torpedo ASW patrol configuration.
I find it hard to believe an improved model would have a worse capability than the one that preceeded it, especially using smaller and lighter torpedoes (Mk. 44) than the ones listed in these documents (Mk. 41).

So do any of you have information regarding:
1 - how many torpedoes could the P-2 carry;
2 - how many sea mines and of which type the P-2 could carry, and;
3 - how many bombs of each kind could the P-2 carry in the bomb bay?

The best I could find up to now was that the P2V-1 prototype could carry 2 torpedoes...

Thanks in advance!

[Gunner98]

I have no idea on an answer to your question but thank you for sharing that fantastic link! There goes several more days of delving ....[:D]

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[Gunner98]

Actually this site may be useful:

http://www.airvectors.net/avp2v.html

[Scorpion86]

ORIGINAL: Gunner98
I have no idea on an answer to your question but thank you for sharing that fantastic link! There goes several more days of delving ....[:D]

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Oh boy, do I have something for you!
If you like that kind fo depository, my I introduce you to AviaLogs, a site that has aircraft manuals from all over the world, from WWII to the end of the Cold War.
Also, I present you to AlternateWars.com's Standard Aircraft Characteristics Archive, an archive of datasheets of US Armed Forces' aircraft.

Have fun!

[hellfish6]

This is an unexpectedly informative thread topic. Thank you.

[Mini_Von]

Here is another good site with tons of flight manuals.aviationarchives

[mikkey]

Excellent site, thanks Mini_Von! I have found some interesting manuals for Hustler, Thud, CorsairII, Huey...

[Scorpion86]

Nevermind, guys, I've found a manual with the internal stores! Thanks anyway!

[Gunner98]

Glad you found your answer Scorpion86.

Here are some manuals for the SR-71 https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/

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[Scorpion86]

Well, while we are sharing, I think this will be usefull for any Cold War ASW grognards:

A brief history of US sonobuoy development: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a597432.pdf
A list of US torpedoes, with a brief description: https://maritime.org/doc/jolie/part2.htm