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Offline SmokinLoon

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Re: Defense of the HE111
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2013, 04:27:08 PM »
Is there no late-war He 111 H-20 with 13mm guns?

I believe the options are all 8mm or 8mm w/ 20mm nose and forward gondolas.  I'll have to double check though. 
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Re: Defense of the HE111
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2013, 05:07:16 PM »
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Re: Defense of the HE111
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2013, 07:20:56 PM »
I believe the options are all 8mm or 8mm w/ 20mm nose and forward gondolas.  I'll have to double check though. 

you are correct, some He-11s had MG 131 and MG81Z however most had the single 20mm MG/FF, 3 x MG15 and 2x MG81z

Earlier versions mainly had 4-5 x MG15 and a single 20mm MG FF

Late war He-111 H-20 had 3 x MG 131 and 2 x MG81Z however i'm not sure how many were made in this block.
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Offline Denniss

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Re: Defense of the HE111
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2013, 06:29:12 AM »
By later 1942 many had their MG 15 swapped to MG 81. The 12/42 manual for H-11/-14/-16 states a MG FF/M in cockpit front, MG 131 in top rear and MG 81Z in bottom rear with MG 81 or 81Z in side mounts.
H-20 changed this to MG 131 in cockpit front, top read and bottom rear, bottom front could hold a MG 81Z and side guns were MG 81Z or MG 131. The top rear MG 131 was in something one could call a powered rotating turret.

Later war He 111 production:

H-11      301
H-11 TO    200
H-14      50
H-16       200
H-16/R1    900
H-20       770