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Title: BP Defiant
Post by: Viper17 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.

Title: BP Defiant
Post by: Tony Williams 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.

Tony Williams
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