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Offline HFMudd

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Hurri IIc Hispano (Maybe a HTC request)
« on: February 03, 2003, 11:22:14 AM »
IIRC the Russian received Hurri I's which they then modified by replacing the 303's with 20mm.  I have a couple of questions about this:

1) Does anyone know if the 20mm added were a pair of ShVAK's or B-20's?  Obviously a Hurri with a pair of B-20 would lack the long range sting of the Hispano armed one.
2) Does AH model the different loadouts with individual look up tables, which would make it very hard to add a Russian armed Hurricane variant -OR- does AH simply extrapolate from a single table for that model based on the weapon weight which should (in my mind at least) make it much simpler to add the Russian Hurricane variant.

The reason I ask is that I feel the Hurri IIc is a questionable replacement for the Russian lend lease Hurricane.

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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2003, 11:38:52 AM »
Poking around a bit I find that the lend lease Hurricanes seem to have been IIA, IIB and IIC models.  The 'II' had a universal wing which could be fitted with up to 12 (!) 303's or 4 20mm.

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Hurri IIc Hispano (Maybe a HTC request)
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2003, 11:49:03 AM »
A while ago I had a coraspondacce with an "expert" on this topic, some Huricane Fanatic in England who had his own websight, at any rate the point he made to me was that the Huricanes were used with the British arament as instaled at the factory, the up arming of the earler models is unknow to me howeaver, my questions were directed toward the Huricane IIC issue since it was the model we intended on using in The Stalengrad set up at the time, again it was conveyed to me that they all used the Hispanons they were shiped with. further research I conducted did not dispute this.

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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2003, 11:59:53 AM »
They removed the 303s and put in 2 ShVAK and 2 12.7mm.
There are pictures of them in Ospreys Soviet aces and the Soviet ace interview posted last week on this site talked about them as well.