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Mmack8 replied to the thread Other countries' Dauntless?.IJAAF could have asked the Ki-51 to be a divebomber, maybe with a Kinsei/Ha-112 engine. Probably could have been made to carry a 500 kg...
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Mmack8 replied to the thread Other countries' Dauntless?.Italians yeah, it boggles the mind they wasted all that effort to build the pathetic SM.85 and 86, and others. Instead of that a 1000 HP...
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Mmack8 replied to the thread Other countries' Dauntless?.Well, i guess the romanians would have been better off designing the IAR-47 as an all metal divebomber from the start, rather than...
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MI guess that is a difference between you and me. Me, when challenged to prove my claims, I try not just to say 'it is in book XYZ, look...
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MI agree, as far as I know the P-51A never encountered Zero fighters either. They faced Ki-43 and got the worst of it.
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MHow many Ki-43s were required to replace one Ki-84 in the bomber-busting role between 20000 and 30000 ft? Sources for both claims? How...
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Mmack8 replied to the thread The real combat history of the Ki-43.I'm almost certain that the aircraft in question was a Ki-43, not an A6M. Reall the allied pilots were seeing Zeros everywhere, though...
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MYou’re correct
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Mmack8 replied to the thread Ki-27 - God Tier Fighter in 1937-1938?.Very interesting comparison. But isn't the Bf-109C rpg supposed to be 2x 500 rpg for the cowl guns and 2x 420 rpg for the wing guns, so...
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MThe reason I'm saying this is… During the same time… The best Germany had was… BF-109C Loaded Weight: 2160kg Wing Area: 16.165m2...
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MHurricane Mk I / Early (1937) Loaded Weight: 2886kg Wing Area: 23.97m2 Engine: Merlin II (1030HP) - Max Speed: (Military Power) 422km/h...
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Mmack8 reacted to Geoffrey Sinclair's post in the thread What if the Germans had radar proximity fused AA shells? with.There are tables of estimated USN AA performance, one widely published table is 1 October 1944 to 31 January 1945, and sees in Kamikaze...
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Mmack8 reacted to Shortround6's post in the thread What if the Germans had radar proximity fused AA shells? with.From your post #1 Ideas were not the problem. Turning the ideas into stuff that actually worked was the problem. Worked in a real live...
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Mmack8 replied to the thread What if the Germans had radar proximity fused AA shells?.Very interesting thread. A FOUR time increase in losses to heavy flak sound devastating. Are there examples of german proximity fuses...
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Mmack8 reacted to wiking85's post in the thread What if the Germans had radar proximity fused AA shells? with.Estimates from the US were that it would increase Allied losses by 300%....if there was no jamming of the fuses and radar. For this to...
