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Hello Nikademus
so Spits vs Bf 109s 144 vs 82 lost
Spits vs. C 202s 28 vs 26
Spits vs Re 2001 6 vs 25 lost.
But Spit figures incl. those force and crash-landed of which some were probable repaired and some were written offs. Did I get it right?
Juha
Great stuff Nikademus.
I don't understand why some get so caught up on fighter vs fighter stats when fighters are only a part of the total air battle. (One sees this in BoB discussions as well.)
Nikademus
Excellent work. I admit that I thought about doing what you did but chickened out, so top marks to you, shame to me and many thanks.
Next Question, Where did Kurfurst go?
PS I meant to add that I hadn't realised that the Huricanes did so well. They were both seriously outclassed and outnumbered so to achieve approx a 1 to 1 ratio is a very good achievement.
Probably worth adding to further support the necessity and impact of the Spits is that the last Hurricane combats continued to go heavily in favor of the 109 drivers though overall the Hurr's continued to add valuable bomber #'s to the RAF tally.
44 shot down in return for 16 109's in 42. But Hurricanes also nabbed
4 x 110
5 x Ju-87
27 x Ju-88
Sea Hurricanes added:
2 x Ju-87 and 9 x Ju-88's + a 110.
vs. the R.A. add one Z-506B while Sea Hurricanes bagged:
3 x Cr-42
1 x MC-200
5 x S-79
3 x S-84
2 x Z-1007bis
1 x Ju-87(Ita)
Sea Hurricanes lost in air:
1 to 110
1 to MC-200
3 to Re-2001
2 to Ju-88
1 to He-111
1 to "Friendly" AA
Fulmar (1942) Malta related operations:
1 to D-520
Hello NZ
one correction, Malta got its first radar already in March 1939 and the second in June 1940
Juha
Hello Nikademus
Again, thanks a lot!
Fulmar seems to have worked as planned, it could handle Italian snoopers and bombers and probably also load carrying He 111s, if these would have been around, had long loiter time and large ammo capacity but was too slow for Ju 88s. And fighters, not simply planned to handle them.
Juha