Best Nightfighter of WW2

[cheddar cheese]

you would, i like the beau

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i don't recall saying, i didn't...............

 

[cheddar cheese]

neither do i actually ah well, the beau gets my vote for best nightfighter or the night fighter version of the p-38

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the beau was the best brittish night fighter easily.............

 

[cheddar cheese]

apart from the mossie it was pretty much the only one werent it?

 

[kiwimac]

Nope the Brits used the Bolton-Paul Defiant as a NF and some marques of the Hurri. Still prefer the JU88 / He 219 / DO 335.

Kiwimac

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

JU88 / He 219 / DO 335

all as one plane

but the 335 was pretty cool................

 

[kiwimac]

** Blows Lanc a Raspberry**

kiwimac

 

[Lightning Guy]

The Hurricane was never equipped with radar. I think to qualify as a night fighter a plane should have some means of locating a target at night other than the pilot's eyes. The Hurricane was a virtually stock dayfighter simply being flown at night.

 

[cheddar cheese]

JU88 / He 219 / DO 335

all as one plane

but the 335 was pretty cool................

sure was 8)

 

[plan_D]

The Hurricane was still a night fighter, it flew at night, it was a fighter..therefore it was a night fighter

 

[cheddar cheese]

does that mean planes that fly at twilight are called twilight fighters?

 

[plan_D]

Damn straight...

 

[kiwimac]

And of course those that fly at dawn are dawn fighters!

Kiwimac

 

[plan_D]

Of course..now you're all getting it....

 

[cheddar cheese]

and all those planes that are french are called crap fighters

 

[Lightning Guy]

Well anything that didn't carry radar was hardly going to be an effective night fighter. The P-38M would have been a fine nightfighter if it had seen action (aopparenlty a few enter service just before the war ended but I don't know of any interceptions). There were some field modified P-38s that got into service down in the South Pacific. Two of the machine guns were moved forward and a radar set was squeezed in between the cockpit and the guns. Again, I don't know of any interceptions they actually made.

 

[plan_D]

I don't know about the French planes being crap, they did shoot down quite a few Ju52 and Ju-87s, plus the fact the Germans used a few after the capture of France. Maybe it was just the pilots.

 

[Lightning Guy]

Most of the French planes that were captured were passed off to other Axis nations like Romania.

 

[plan_D]

Yes, but the Germans did apparently use a few, just like they did with the French tanks. If not only for a short time before passing them on.