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Ipressive looking fighter.
How was the radar mounted? I've never seen a German Sensing system that was standardly mounted anywhere but the nose. Would it be on the wing tip?
Where were the 30MM Machine guns mounted? One in each wing root and one through the prop?
It is quite relavant for this discussion to list the avionics mounted on standard German nightfighters (mid 1944):
Radar
FuG 220 Lichtenstein SN-2: metric radar
FuG 212 Lichtenstein C-1: decimetric radar
FuG 350 Naxos Z: centimetric radar detector
FuG 227 Flensburg: metric radar detector
(yes, 2 radars and 2 radar detectors at the same time)
Navigation
Patin PKS 12: course-steering autopilot
Peil G6: radio direction finding equipment
FuBl 2: blind landing radio equipment
FuG 101a: precision radio altimeter
Communications
FuG 10: long range communications
FuG 16ZY: mid range communications
FuG 25a: IFF (Identification Friend or Foe)
FuG 120: data link (an early implementation, it gave updated bomber stream data)
intercom
Such a complete avionics package was hard to find even 20 years later.
I can''t think of one aircraft in history that didn't need improvement in a least one area.
Exactly Njaco, and mentioning them is ok in my book, as long as you don't make it seem worse than it is, which I dont believe I did.