P-51 with 4 CANNONS!!!

[BBP]

I WANT ONE!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang_variants#/media/File:P-51A.jpg

[awrabbit]

the hispano stang would be a nice addition to AH would cover some ground and could even be  Allison powered variant.  low alt.

if i came modeled with the Merlin in any for it would have to be perked.  or a P-51 C variant could be used.  lots of potions. 

[Vraciu]

Most of our purse fights are at low alt so this airplane would get some use.

[Zimme83]

Would be roughly equal to a spit IX in speed at low alt (Mustang I) so it would not be that scary, like a 190A but with poorer climb performance.

[save]

4 Hispanos in any plane would see lots of use, specially if it can carry good ordnance.

[JOACH1M]

4 Hispanos in any plane would see lots of use, specially if it can carry good ordnance.

mossie is not used much

[save]

True,it's a specialists plane, much like the 109s.

Particularly it's a bad diver, and is fragile, you easy get pilot wounds, could it be because Mossie pilots have too big heads ? 

mossie is not used much

[Dobs]

Test platform...

Corsairs had a variant with 4 20s as well....

I'd settle for some torque being modeled in the air:)

[Zimme83]

With its poor overall performance i dont think it would be that popular, the cannons would not compensate for poor top speed, poor turn rate etc. My guess is that it would be like the Typhoon, a suicide jabo. (depending on ord options). But as a fighter the 190A-8 is a more dangerous 4 cannon bird.

[Vraciu]

Poor turn performance?    Sounds like an A8 actually.   

[caldera]

Do you think four cannons will be enough?  What happens if you HO a guy that also has four cannons?  I think we need an extra two cannons available as a perked option.

[save]

I have actually turned within a sector with an A8 

To Dobs - we already have that pesky perked F4u1c that have 4*20mm,

And a big YES to more torque.


and to Caldera, Fw190a5-a8 had a Rücksatz carrying in total 6*20mm and 2*mg, I heard it made wonders to the plane performance 

Poor turn performance?    Sounds like an A8 actually.   

[Wyatt134]

its 4 hispano mk2s so its basically a tiffy but with the speed of a mustang just have a loadout for 4 cannons on the bravo personally if i was desighning aircraft in 1944 i woulda put hispano mk5s on the p51D and put a griffon in it hispano mk5s are already in game on the tempest
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[atlau]

its 4 hispano mk2s so its basically a tiffy but with the speed of a mustang just have a loadout for 4 cannons on the bravo personally if i was desighning aircraft in 1944 i woulda put hispano mk5s on the p51D and put a griffon in it hispano mk5s are already in game on the tempest
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Think you forgot some punctuation:)

[Mister Fork]

So we're clear, we're talking about the British Mustang MkIa with the 4x20mm hispano cannons, the Allison engine that topped out at 382 mph, had the older canopy, and NO ordnance options.  About 111 ended up serialized with the RAF in this configuration - probably less actually made it in the air.

What exactly would make this version a more popular version compared to the P-51B that is mostly a hangar queen? And with it's smaller wing area, it's not going to turn as well as the P-51B/D and has a climb rate of 3000ft/s.