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Offline Viper17

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« on: May 18, 2002, 02:33:44 PM »
I was thinking if they gave the Defiant piolit something like 4 or 6 .303's, Than it would be a sucess. What do you think.

Offline Tony Williams

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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2002, 02:48:00 PM »
That would have made it even slower and less competitive than it was. The weight of that massive turret was too much of a handicap against fighters.

Of course, it was originally intended to attack bombers; the British never expected enemy bombers to be escorted, as they assumed that they would have to fly all the way from Germany rather than have fighter bases in France.

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