Best Aircraft in many different roles

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The P-38 could be used in fighter, nightfighter, recon, and ground attack. Atleast that is the only roles I can think, they may have been more.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes but the mossie opperated in even more roles than that, there were 43 marks..............

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Oh I believe you that the mossie was more versatile. It was a larger platform and could be used in more roles than the P-38. However as for the Marks, a lot of the marks were the same role as the others, a mark is just a version. Like the Germans Bf-109V-1, Bf-109E-3, Me-109G-6, or the US P-51A, P-51B, P-51D. It just the latest upgrade or version. Dont take me wrong a lot of the Marks were for different roles however it did not suit over 40 different roles. There are not 40 roles that it could fill.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes that's true, it just makes the mossie sound better

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I hear you.

 

[cheddar cheese]

P-38 served more roles and theatres than the Mossie...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I know it flew in more theatres but I cant think of how the P-38 flew in more roles than the mossie.

 

[cheddar cheese]

I cant think of them all off-hand but I think it was more, and if not pretty much the same...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

ok could the P-38 carry:-

a turret?

H2S Bombing radar?

British and american radars?

two high ball?

a cookie?

 

[cheddar cheese]

It probably could carry a cookie externally, if needs be.
Several versions were modified to fit radar you know...
I reckon the P-38M could have been fitted with a rear gunner, but as the P-38 was primarily a superb fighter why would it need a turret...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The roles of the P-38 that I can think of are: fighter, night fighter, recon, and ground attack. What else could it be used for, I may be wrong but I think thats about it. It was extremely great in its roles that it perfomed but I dont think you can do much else with it.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

damn i made a reply, why didn't it register!!!

ok, if either of the external pylons could take the weight of a 4,000lb bomb, it would unbalance the aircraft severely, being able to carry radar is very different to one aircraft being able to carry both british and american radar, the P-38M was cramped enough, it's be one hell of a squeze to get a rear gunner in there, and i'm talking about a 4 gun turrent able to bring it's guns to bear through 360 degrees, and there was no way it could carry H2S or highball, another thing, could the P-38 carry a searchlight??

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I am pretty sure it could carry a searchlight, but I dont know if it did or not.

 

[wmaxt]

The P-38 flew in all the catagories the Mossie did including level bombing with and without Norden/radar. the big difference was that the SAME P-38 could do all those roles not just a purpose built aircraft like the Mossie.

The Mossie airframe was flexible but individual Mossies were not. With the exception of the pure recon P-38 they, each plane, could do all the things it needed to ie.

Air ambulance
Fighter
Level bombing
Skip bombing
Dive bonbing
Recon
Intercepter
Escort
Tank buster
Night fighter
Provisions/testing was made for these rolls
Skis for snow
Two torpedos
Floats

You can't lump these into smaller catagories because they require different technices and in most aircraft, different set up. The P-38s could do any mixture on any single day with any single aircraft.

The Mossie was a great plane but it was not more flexiblethan a P-38!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

.You can't lump these into smaller catagories because they require different technices and in most aircraft, different set up. The P-38s could do any mixture on any single day with any single aircraft.

Good Point.

 

[wmaxt]

.You can't lump these into smaller catagories because they require different technices and in most aircraft, different set up. The P-38s could do any mixture on any single day with any single aircraft.

Good Point.

How do you isolate individual paragraphs in a quote?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Aha I just figured out the whole quote thing myself. As for the isolating when you quote something someone has written, just delete everything in the quote that you dont want to have in it.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Example:

.You can't lump these into smaller catagories because they require different technices and in most aircraft, different set up. The P-38s could do any mixture on any single day with any single aircraft.

.You can't lump these into smaller.....single aircraft.

 

[wmaxt]

Example:

.You can't lump these into smaller.....single aircraft.

Duh.

 

[cheddar cheese]

Or type

[quote="Name of user"]TEXT[/quote]