New P-40F!!

[Guppy35]

I just don't know how they came up with the F <and not the L if they wanted a Merlin and a mid varient> over the K. Maybe we will still get the K.

The 1st 699 ..96 P40-F/CU & 603 P40F/1 ,more than half of the P-40F's made , were P40E's w/a Merlina and they called it an F.
At least all the L's had the extended fuselage

Not being in on the decision making process of HTC I have no idea, but I would guess you answered your own question as it would be easier to model it off the existing P40E they had instead of having to redo the tail

[oboe]

They did remodel the tail - it looks like we're getting the stretched fuselage "F", so dunno why they didn't choose to model it as the "L" instead.   Not sure what the difference is either.

[Baumer]

The 2 major difference between the F and the L are;

1. removing two of the machine guns
2. removing 250 ponds of armor, mostly from around the engine

This resulted in only a minimal top speed increase (about 4mph) but it did make a noticeable improvement to maneuverability.