Seriously just Call them what the US called them operationally ffs, Please.
F4U-1D, TBM, exc…
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This bothers me too, so I did a bit of a deep dive; and found out that Northrop Grumman maintains trademark licenses on all its WWII aircraft, including specifically for video games.
I assume they are litigious in their defense of these trademarks, thus the need for made-up nomenclature for all NG designed airframes.
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I thought of that as well, I know Il-2 has had an issue with that conceptually with regard to any potential pacific theater expansion.
But… I thought given there Russian they could over look that?
Then again Il-2 also is and they seam to be concerned about it.
Seams kind of a dick move on Northrup Grumman’s part, it’s not like we can boycott there products 
Odd that as well, given these products are so old I though copyrights ended after 70 years? Or something like that?
Copyrights do expire, but trademarks just have be renewed every ten years and actively enforced to last indefinitely. I have to assume that any games that do use the proper names are paying whatever fees NG requires for the privilege, and that darkflow would rather not.
It’s a kinda messed up system, but it’s the people with the money that make the rules.
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Grumman is anal about their names. Lotta money needs to be given to use em
And Vought was eventually sold to Northrop Grumman so basically every US naval plane other than the Helldiver is going to have the “technical name”. And no, being foreign doesn’t get around copyright laws because Northrop has the international trademark on their planes.
Dang never knew they were the ones that bought Vought
Dang Grumman sucks dude. Worst MIC company. I want my tax dollars back
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What I don’t undestand is, do like, history books for highschoolers have to ask some asshole company for permission to name what planes were part of history 80 years ago as well? This is insanity
History books don’t really go into detail of what planes each side used
Matter of fact there isn’t a single school history book I’m aware of that would even be close to useful for such a situation. Most of them just give a basic outline of when major events happened and little else. If you want to know any of the useful or fun stuff, you’re on your own
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