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which is the heaviest armed?
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2002, 10:08:54 AM »
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Offline Dr Zhivago

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« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2002, 10:49:26 AM »
Do335B-2 with three MK 103 and two MG 151/20 or Do 335B-3 with two MK 103 + two Mg 213/30 + two MK 108... ;)

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« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2002, 11:14:00 AM »
The Spitfire Mk IV prototype was renamed Spitfire Mk XX and 500 were ordered in 1941, complete with 6 Hispano 20mm cannon.  It was renamed for two reasons, 1) a photo recon Spit was given the Mk IV designation and 2) it was decided that Merlin Spits would be Mk I through Mk XIX and Griffon Spits would be Mk XX+ (obviously that was abandoned).  That is why there is no Mk XX Spitfire.

So far as I can tell, a clerk saw the order for 500 Spitfire Mk XXs when the Spitfire Mk number was V and, assuming that the order was in error, changed it to an order for 500 Spitfire Mk Vs.  If that hadn't happened a Griffon powered Spitfire armed with six 20mm Hispano Mk II cannon would have entered service in late 1941 or early 1942.

Personally, given the targets that RAF Fighter Command was shooting at, I can see no reason to sacrifice performance for that firepower.  Two or four 20mm cannon are quite suffient for shooting fights down.  As a matter of fact the Spitfire Mk Vcs (four 20mm Hispano Mk IIs) sent to Malta had a pair of 20mm cannon removed because the firepower wasn't needed for shooting down the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica fighters and medium bombers while performance against things like the Bf109F-4 mattered quite a bit.

If we include proto-types (or types just entering production at the end of hostilites) we have to include the J7W1 Shinden, which was armed with four 30mm cannon.  It was in production at the end of the war.


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« Reply #18 on: June 08, 2002, 04:15:41 PM »
As far as mg armorment is concerned. It's a tie. P-47D with 8 .50 cal mg and a model of hurricane 12 .303 cal mg. With cannon its different. I would stick wit the the yak or 262:rolleyes: :cool: :D

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« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2002, 05:25:36 PM »
262 doesn't count.  It has two engines.:p
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« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2002, 07:43:19 AM »
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Originally posted by Dr Zhivago
Do335B-2 with three MK 103 and two MG 151/20 or Do 335B-3 with two MK 103 + two Mg 213/30 + two MK 108... ;)


Do 335 was 2 engines plane.

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« Reply #21 on: June 10, 2002, 08:04:38 AM »
Ta152 A.

Never saw action but was fully ready for production when RLM canceled it and decided to have Kurt Tank build the H version instead, something that delayed the introduction of a good high alt fighter to the LW by almost a year. Noone knows why they did this, the A version was fully ready for everything and worked well.

The aramament consisted of 4x 20mm Mg151's and 2x30mm Mk108's and 1x30mm Mk103.

Or 6x20mm Mg151's and a hub mounted Mk103 or Mk108.

The Hub mounted cannon could be changed (independent of the other aremament) between the Mk103 and Mk108. The outboard cannons could also be changed between Mk103, Mk108 and Mg151's.
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