the lancaster kicks ass
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- Dec 20, 2003
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ok but almost any fighter could carry bombs, that's nothing specail, how many bomber could dogfight??
p-61 widow, its unusal for it 2 carrie bombs but it can carrie more than 7000 if it needsOk, almost any fighter can carry bombs, buit name me another fighter that can carry 5,200lbs of bombs?
the lancaster kicks ass said:no, the P-38's max of 5,200lbs is more than the normall load carried by the mediums, the mediums were capable of much more than the 4,000lbs some of them normally carried...........
the lancaster kicks ass said:it's not the fighter part that's significant, the P-38 was a twin engined aircraft, 5,200lbs is not specail for a twin engined plane.............
plan_D said:The B-25 C/D carried 5,200 lbs of bombs, on a normal run. The 3,200 lbs load is for the late marks, such as J and H. The J had the nose filled with .50 cal though, and was not a bomber as such, it had twelve .50 cal in the glass nose and eighteen in the solid nose.
The H had the 75mm cannon, so obviously could not carry the full bomb load. The B-25 could obviously carry more than the P-38, you'd be foolish to think otherwise.
GermansRGeniuses said:the lancaster kicks ass said:it's not the fighter part that's significant, the P-38 was a twin engined aircraft, 5,200lbs is not specail for a twin engined plane.............
Corsairs could carry up to 4,000...
Au-1 Corsairs could carry something like 7,000, but that was in Korea.
cheddar cheese said:ok but almost any fighter could carry bombs, that's nothing specail, how many bomber could dogfight??
Well, lets put 'dogfight' in inverted commas. The Ju-88 could.
Ok, almost any fighter can carry bombs, buit name me another fighter that can carry 5,200lbs of bombs?