VinceReeves
Airman
- 47
- Feb 5, 2013
Hello all,
I'm wondering if anyone can quantify how successful the Boulton Paul Defiant was as a night fighter. I often read statements that in the early war period it "shot down more aircraft than any other type" but there's never any attempt to put this statement in numerical terms, which makes me suspect that its score was actually pretty low - just not as low as the Blenheim or Havoc.
But than again, I think it was still in the night-fighting role until late 1942, so it may have genuinely had something going for it....
I'm wondering if anyone can quantify how successful the Boulton Paul Defiant was as a night fighter. I often read statements that in the early war period it "shot down more aircraft than any other type" but there's never any attempt to put this statement in numerical terms, which makes me suspect that its score was actually pretty low - just not as low as the Blenheim or Havoc.
But than again, I think it was still in the night-fighting role until late 1942, so it may have genuinely had something going for it....