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I HAVE numbers.
If you can, do it with the numbers or be shown to be an apologist.
Yes, so what's wrong with comparing the Seafire with the Hellcat?
So, which was better? Seafire XV or Hellcat?
In the Pacific the P-38 was the highest scoring USAAF fighter aircraft, in Europe the P-38 had the worst kill/loss ratio of any of the fighters used by USAAF being credited with destroying 1,771 enemy aircraft for the loss of 1,758 P-38s,Some aircraft did operate in both. How do the P-38s figures in the ETO compare with its figures in the PTO? Anybody know?Cheers
Steve
Rubbish Nuuumannn. They did what they did and one has to come out on top. There are NO equal war thearters. There are NO equal pilots. We only have the RESULTS and they are what they are.
You are apologist for your favorite type, whatever that is and I have my suspicion.
No numbers, no result.
I HAVE numbers. See Post #25. Post yours. Notice no numbers since post 25?
Is there a reason? I think so. Figure it out. Either the Hellcat is the best or you can't prove it otherise with believable numbers from a believable source.
If you can, do it with the numbers or be shown to be an apologist.
In the Pacific the P-38 was the highest scoring USAAF fighter aircraft, in Europe the P-38 had the worst kill/loss ratio of any of the fighters used by USAAF being credited with destroying 1,771 enemy aircraft for the loss of 1,758 P-38s,
does that affect Griffon development at all
That's because they got it right the first time.The Hellcat, although it had an illustrious career was not around for nearly as long, did not serve with nearly as many armed forces and was not built in anywhere near the same number of variants and sub-marks - not to forget that it was purely designed for carrier operations with naval forces.
Don't forget the same pilot at the stick in each of these aircraft.Unless two aircraft are flying at the same time, in the same theatre, against identical opposition and carrying out similar missions, kill ratios are utterly irrelevant as a means of comparing different aircraft.
What's this, propaganda?Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Japanese air power on the wane before the Hellcat arrived in numbers in the PTO?
Redcoat, he asked how the figures compared. What are the figures on the P38s in the PTO?In the Pacific the P-38 was the highest scoring USAAF fighter aircraft, in Europe the P-38 had the worst kill/loss ratio of any of the fighters used by USAAF being credited with destroying 1,771 enemy aircraft for the loss of 1,758 P-38s,
Redcoat, he asked how the figures compared. What are the figures on the P38s in the PTO?
Thanks. Just to satisfy my own morbid curiosity do you have a raw data citation for those claims?The P-38s kill ratio in the Pacific was 11:1
That's because they got it right the first time.
If they had got it right first time, wouldn't all Hellcats have subsequently been powered by R-2600s instead of R-2800s?