Spitfire

[Nimrod45]

.50 cal option in the IX and VIII to replace the .30 cals.
Easy.

[Spikes]

Did they have 50 cals in the war?

[Nimrod45]

You bet, in fact the majority had .50s rather than .30s.

[Nimrod45]

Quick correction before I get cremated by someone.

Starting in the summer of 1944 the majority were using the E wing which allowed 2 .20s and 2 .50s rather than the C wing which held the .20s and .30s.

[Motherland]

.20s? Id hate to be flying that Spit...

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by Nimrod45
.50 cal option in the IX and VIII to replace the .30 cals.
Easy.

The IX we have is the 43 IX with the Universal wing.  It didn't have 50 cals

The VIII never carried 50 cals

The Spitfire XVI is nothing more then a Spitfire LFIXe with an American built Packard Merlin 266 instead of the Rolls Royce Built Merlin 66 of the LFIX

So we already have the E wing option in the 16 which the same as the IX you describe from late 44-45.

[SgtPappy]

Beat me to it again Guppy...

The closest a 1943 Mk.IX got to 'replacing' its .303's was removing the outer pair in the US Spit IX's. Even that is way too rare to be considered a gun option in AH.

[Karnak]

Our Spit IX is a Spitfire F.Mk IX powered by a Merlin 61.  That type that began entering service in mid 1942 and no Spitfire F.Mk IX ever carried .50 cals.

[Spikes]

Originally posted by Guppy35
The IX we have is the 43 IX with the Universal wing.  It didn't have 50 cals

The VIII never carried 50 cals

The Spitfire XVI is nothing more then a Spitfire LFIXe with an American built Packard Merlin 266 instead of the Rolls Royce Built Merlin 66 of the LFIX

So we already have the E wing option in the 16 which the same as the IX you describe from late 44-45.

What he said...that is what I was getting to.

[Nimrod45]

Okay then request withdrawn, thanks for the info though.

[nickf620]

but didnt our spit 9 used to have 50 cals in this game?

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by nickf620
but didnt our spit 9 used to have 50 cals in this game?

Our Spit IX pre redone Spits was a bastardized version that wasn't really anything.

The ones we have now are far better.

And let me say it again.  We have a Spitfire IX with an E wing and the 50 cals to go with the 20mm.  It's called the Spitfire XVI.

They literally were coming off the same production line at times and were either and IX or and XVI depending on whether an American built Merlin was put in or a Rolls Royce built Merlin was added.

If you took a Spitfire IX and replaced the English Merlin with the American Merlin, you'd effectively change it to an XVI.

Its the same bird!

[Nimrod45]

All I was thinking is it would be nice to have the .50s in the unclipped version.