P-47D-25: Need Intel Schnell!

[Ash]

Can anyone tell me the differences between fight characteristics of the 2 P-47s now available? I sure they both can dive like screaming banshee's but what is the new Jug going to be like in a fight?

Thanks In Advance,

Ash
I./JG2

[Westy]

 http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p47_4.html

and

 http://home.att.net/~Historyzone/Seversky-Republic7.html

[Ash]

Westy,


Thanks!

OTR,
Ash

[Ripsnort]

Nooooo! Don't tell him!  He's a Loose Waffle!

 

[[Sg]ShotGun]

ok westy
so the -25 shood have directional instability (dorsal fin -27 onward), and shood not carry rockets (racks -30 onward). right??

[Westy]

 Less directional lateral stability and it should have the rockets it has available to it now. And no dive flap -which it does not.
 It was the first bubble top version.

 -Westy

[[Sg]ShotGun]

but ur web site u list indicates only the -30+ model was the first with racks for HVAR...r we now modeling field kits???

[Kieren]

It isn't necessarily a contradiction. First, the 20E introduced the "Universal Wing" which allowed a wide variety of ordinance, and secondly the 30-RA onward is quoted for having HVAR racks for 10 rockets, not the 6 employed by the 25.

I like this site, but don't consider it to be the definitive information source. I bet if you dig a little you will find evidence that the -25 could carry rockets.

[Westy]

 Correct on HVAR, but the "bazooka" tubes we have now were a commone armament prior to the HVAR.
 The websites I posted are good references, but should not be misconstrued as having the final word or being 100 % factual or complete.

-Westy