Author Topic: 4 cannon armed Spits. (Read 1564 times)

gatso · « **on:** March 17, 2003, 07:36:56 AM »

I am aware that the usage of 4 cannon armed Spits was small. I know a very few were based at Malta and I also know that some of those had two of the cannon removed for various reasons.

I found this whilst browsing today. Caption was "4 cannon armed spits over the Adriatic" Looking at the exhaust stacks I'd say they were MkV's?

Apart from Malta and the above, were there any other examples of use, neglecting prototypes, of 4 cannon armed Spits during WW2? Just wondering, I don't expect to get them in AH

Gatso

fffreeze220 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2003, 07:37:57 AM »

lol 4 cannons on the spit and i suspend my account

Xjazz · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2003, 07:46:27 AM »

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Originally posted by fffreeze220
lol 4 cannons on the spit and i suspend my account

ROFL! We get perked Tempest with 4 20mm and nobody quit.

gatso · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2003, 07:46:31 AM »

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Originally posted by fffreeze220
lol 4 cannons on the spit and i suspend my account

Count the barrels on this baby Freeze! (It was only a mock up, you don't need to soil your leather underwear just yet

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fffreeze220 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 17, 2003, 07:57:53 AM »

arghhhhh:mad: butt ugly

lord dolf vader · « **Reply #5 on:** March 17, 2003, 12:01:13 PM »

good lord its alive !!

F4UDOA · « **Reply #6 on:** March 17, 2003, 12:29:35 PM »

Curious.

How many rounds per gun in the 6 20mill config?

Pooh21 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 17, 2003, 09:26:52 PM »

4 gun tardfires would turn AH into a poor copy of that beloved arcade classic Joust.

It'd be just Spit Joust High

Fishu · « **Reply #8 on:** March 17, 2003, 10:08:35 PM »

Think about it.. Spit XIV with 6 cannons.
That would make an armed dart.

funkedup · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2003, 12:35:20 AM »

Suave · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2003, 12:52:38 AM »

Man if a 4 cannon spit get's your 'roids in an uproar some of the planes japan was working on at the end of the war would give you a brain anerysim .

devious · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2003, 05:54:35 AM »

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Originally posted by gatso

Count the barrels on this baby Freeze! (It was only a mock up, you don't need to soil your leather underwear just yet )

Aieeee !

OK, why not 4 Hiszooka Spits.

I thought there was an Umrüstsatz for the 190a8 that mounted 8 MG151/20

4 built-in and 2x2 in gunpods under the outward guns...

I KNOW you could mount 2xMK103 ;P

Nice pics BTW

gatso · « **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2003, 12:49:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Fishu
Think about it.. Spit XIV with 6 cannons.
That would make an armed dart.

Mk IV. The first Spit to have a Griffon engine installed and I believe the only one to bear the MkIV designation. I have no idea how many rpg it was envisioned to take. I highly suspect the outer two guns were never even fitted and the barrels you can see are just that. barrels with nothing behind them.

Still wondering on the original 4 cannon Q though. I am assuming most saw service with overseas airforces. I believe the first picture I posted are spits of the SAAF and I know the Aussies were operating 4 cannon examples in 1944.

Gatso

M.C.202 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2003, 09:29:22 PM »

Does the "tropical" air intake help place them? My GUESS, Italy late '44?

Suave · « **Reply #14 on:** March 19, 2003, 01:02:00 AM »

Well the spitV, spitIX, and seafire in AH all have the universal wing, that means they could be mounted with 4 20mm cannon .