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First one I think that a good oppotunity was lost with the Boulton Paul Defiant. With the turret off and forward firing armament would have been almost as good as the Spit.
One of our new members onetenor (John) had a great comment in another thread:
Hmmmm, what do you think?
What was the construction of the Defiant? Closer to the 'foot in both eras' build of the Hurricane than the monocoque Spitfire, I suspect. Hard to imagine a bastardised Defiant could match the purpose built single seat Hurricane, let alone the thoroughly modern Spit. The postulated performance figures cited earlier sound a bit fanciful, surely.
A redesigned single seat Defiant is going to be competing with MK II and MK V Spitfires and MK II Hurricanes.
No, just a simple drop tank.
By the time the MK II Defiant shows up in production it is the Winter/Spring of 1941 (Feb ?). Prototype did fly in July or August of 1940. A redesigned single seat Defiant is going to be competing with MK II and MK V Spitfires and MK II Hurricanes.