Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: alpini13 on May 31, 2011, 11:36:49 AM
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Is this info correct?if so i want i wish for more armament loadout variation on the spits.
The c wing appeared in October 1941. It was a universal wing that could take eight .303in machine guns, four 20mm cannon or two 20mm cannon and four machine guns. Each cannon now had 120 rounds, compared to the 60 of the b wing. This wing was used on the majority of Mk V Spitfires, normally with the combined cannon and machine guns configuration. The c wing also had the capability to carry two 250lb bombs under the wings, or one 500lb bomb under the fuselage. If machine guns were used, they were used in the outboard position. The a and b wings were not used after the Spitfire V.
d wing
This was a wing used on some photo reconnaissance Spitfires. Instead of guns this wing carried extra fuel, giving the reconnaissance aircraft a range of up to 2000 miles.
e wing
The e wing was a further development of the Universal. It could carry either four 20mm cannon or two 20mm cannon and two 0.5in Browning machine guns. This time the cannon took the outer position and the machine guns the inner. This was partly because it gave more room for machine gun ammunition and partly because the bombs were carried below the inner gun positions, and there had been some problems reported when both cannon and bombs were on the same part of the wing. The e wing appeared in the second half of 1944.
spit 14 and spit 16 can use c or e wing
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So what you're really wishing for is a 4-cannon Spit?
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If the spits get 4 cannons then nikis should get 6
:noid
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I don't think you will ever see a 4 cannon Spit.
All the Spits we have, have the correct and allowable armament for the wings that are being used, as HTC wants them to be used.
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It is correct, in detail, but the implications are incorrect. The "c" wing had the capability of taking eight .303s, but never did, or four 20mm cannons, but the only combat examples were a small number of Mk Vs used used exclusively for ground attack and a single RAAF Mk VIII intended for Ki-46 interception. The vast, vast majority of Spitfires were armed as they are in AH for each mark we have and should stay the way it is.