Best Nightfighter of WW2

[the lancaster kicks ass]

my god is it really that long ago??

shows how long i've been here................

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yep...we should really be recognised on veterans day :Wink:

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well i should, you're still a young whippersnapper............

 

[MP-Willow]

I will think about the P-61, I do like that black airframe.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

what, you don't like the ones in green??

 

[cheddar cheese]

well i should, you're still a young whippersnapper............

To hell with that, youve only been here 20 days longer than me...

P-61's look best in black Like 'that black airframe' eh MP? How about a nice P-38 M...

 

[MP-Willow]

Yes the M was nice if you like that. I like the L the two seat set, but that is just me. Radar needs two sets of eyes and at night that is all the better.

If you read up on the P-38 the proposed K might make you smile.
But this is or should be for the Black Widow!! And here firepower was better then the Lightening!

 

[cheddar cheese]

However it was slower and less manoeverable.

Yes, the P-38K .........

 

[plan_D]

The P-38J was more versatile than the -38K, it had better low altitude performance. The -38K would never take over, it was a more refined High Altitude Interceptor but it wasn't better, actually worse, at doing the other tasks a J could do.

 

[cheddar cheese]

The L was the best P-38...

 

[Erich]

P-38 as the best nf ? 7 kills in the Pacific hardly contributes.

sorry guys look for another a/c like the Beufighter/Mossie/P-61 combinations for Allied a/c

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

mossie has to be the choice for the allies.............

 

[mosquitoman]

or the Beau, it was the first good aircraft used as a nightfighter

 

[plan_D]

The Mosquito NF had a better combat record and was better in ability than the Beau. The Mosquito had the best combat record out of any NF, but the -262 was a better nightfighter in ability.

 

[Erich]

best combat record (Mosquito) Allied correct ? The Bf 110G-4 probably did more combat operations than any other night fighter in the war even though by fall of 1944 the aircraft was derilict..............most successfull the ever present IV./NJG 1 with NJG 1 the overall leader with 2173 night kills and 145 day kill, few with the Ju 88G and maybe 40 with the He 219.

E ~

 

[cheddar cheese]

Woah, never knew the Me-110 was that successful...

 

[Medvedya]

With fixed upwards firing 20mm cannons for the Schräge-Musik and a Lichtenstein set? A Me-110 kitted out like that is bad news indeed....

 

[plan_D]

The Mosquito was definately the best Allied NightFighter off record and ability.

 

[MP-Willow]

Ok, so the -38k might not have been the best alreound 38, but I like the gun set it had and as an intercepter that would have been great, yes?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

wow one 20mm and 4 .50cal, it's no 4x20mm............