Recent content by juhaerik

Yes, Washington made short work of Kirishima. Washington used radar for range and optics for line in her FC that night. Less have been said about her shooting before Kirishima had it. She and SD were shooting other Japanese forces at longer ranges resulting in nil of hits...

Indeed. Yamatos "hit" on White Plains seems to match timewise with both US and Japanese records. Also I have seen Lundgren mentioning that Kongo scored a hit (target name escapes me now, might be a destroyer) at about 30000 yards. This hit looks like not so well documented as Yamatos though...

Emphasis must be on the wording some reports. Not really - this is a fact...

Emphasis on "some reports". Yamato hit USS White Plains at 34k yards. Longest ranged ever hit on a moving ship at sea. Capt Sullivans report...

Iowas were considered by Navy as 31.5 knot ships during the war. Again, theory vs practice comes to mind...

Yamatos radar was good for range - line was not so good. But, this is how US fats battleships were shooting as well...

Thats in THEORY. In practice Yamato did the hitting and Iowa and NJ - missing. Yamato, on top of everything scored longest ranging hit on WP at Samar. Read Capt Sullivans report.

Actually Yamato has faster rate of fire - though very small, only about 2 seconds. But faster.

My best dogfighter would be Spit IV - and best all-around fighter P47, possibly 190. P-51 - jack of all trades, master of none.

Hi everybody, I believe Dortenmann flew his Dora (3rd production) from September '44 to the end achieving a number of victories during that time...

Dear All, Thank You - I'm now clear about this "my mystery"... Best Regards, Juha Luukka

Hi again, I looked this up from Airfix.com and there is one in 1:72 (A02029) - and if this is real depiction I'm sure gonna get one... Rgds, Juha Luukka

Dear All, I bumped to a model box art where three FAF 109G6's were flying with shark mouths painted under the noses. The one with decals, I believe is MT-422, making it G6. Now I have not seen ever this kind of paint job on a Finnish G6 - thus my question : has box artist used his...