cheddar cheese
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Wow interesting, I never knew that! 8)
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Yes it is interesting that the British would want to order something like that. They had aircraft at the time that were just as good. Does that say something or what?
cheddar cheese
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Maybe the Ca.311 was actually a pretty good aircraft. Ive never really bothered researching it properly to be honest, I think ill have to now.
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I agree. It may have been a worthy aircraft. I dont think the British were going to buy crap aircraft from Italy. It would have been a waste of money and had they really wanted a crap aircraft they could have just built it at home.
MP-Willow
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I wounder if the Ca311 would have been used in Europe or the Middle East. They were sending some of the older aircraft there. Or maybe Canada for training 
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At the time they were wanting to buy I think they would have kept it for themselves. This was before Italy officially joined the war.
MP-Willow
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That might make some sence. Then Italy really never was in a good positiopn to be in the war anyway.
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No they were not. The Italian military was always needing the Wehrmacht to save them all the time. The Italian navy was never used to its potential. They had a great navy and just let it get destroyed in the harbor.
cheddar cheese
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They knew how to build good equipment, they just werent very good at using it.
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Agreed to an extent.
The Italian Navy was alright in equipment terms, although they lacked any aircraft carriers worth mentioning. The Italian Air Force had a few decent designs but had nothing good in numbers - and were not capable of mass production. The Italian army equipment was dump!
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Which is why I said agreed to an extent.
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I personally like the B-17 the best mostly because of its history and because it could take a lot of beating but the best bomber would have to the B-29. You can not forget the B-24 or the Lancaster though.
cheddar cheese
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Yeah the B-29 is my favoutite bomber. (Except the P.108..)
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The P.108 is growing on me.
cheddar cheese
Major General
Yeah its an interesting little plane.
trackend
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I agree Adler the best was the B29 but not the most effective I think its hard to pick a difference between the Lanc and B17 each had it merrits and work well together in Europe.
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I just like the fact that she was one of the "What ifs". She was not a bad bomber she just never got the chance.
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trackend said:
I believe you actually 100%.
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