Worst aircraft of WW2? (1 Viewer)

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The ME210 was crap, couldn't fly level or turn and stalled all the time. it had such a bad rep that the Hungarian improved C variant had to be called the 410 just to make it look new. So crap actually it was replaced in production by the 110
 
The Il-2 was pretty much a sitting duck aganst enemy fighters. And as long as they had decent cannon it wasn't too hard to deal with. (and even with machine guns alone the belly mounted oil cooler was a big target) It needed decent fighter support to survive.

Certainly not the worst a/c though.

I think that's pretty much down to the Ba.88, Roc, Me 210, and maybe a couple others.
 
KK
I would not call the oil cooler of Il-2 as a big target. And it wasn't so easy to hit under fuselage oil-cooler when Il-2 was hedge-hopping. Il-2 wasn't invulnerable, there was a couple effective ways to deal it, but one needed deflection shooting and the other usually meant use of lot of ammo. Normal 109 was a bit weakly armed on Il-busting, R/6s had enough firepower for the job as had 190As. Of course for a good shooter normal 109 was usually enough but sometimes even them were frustrated seeing smoking Il-2 still staying airborne after they had shot their ammo at it.

Juha
 
I wouldn't want to try to take one down in a Hurricane Mk.I or a Hawk 75 though.
Did the Finns have success against them in Brewsters?


And the oil cooler would be vulnerable to ground fire too. (It seems odd though, they go through the trouble of burrying the radiator behind the engine, but put the oil cooler on the belly)
 
KK
I cannot remember how it was with B-239 but Hawk 75As seemed to have shot down (I mean really shot down not merely claimed) 5 Il-2s, but it was hard and difficult, usually they were only capable to damage Il-2s.

IIRC oil cooled was in armoured tunnel so it was vulnerable only to fire from more to less straight ahead or from more to less straight from behind. Maybe VVS calculated that Il-2s flying near front line were more likely to reach own area when hit into oil cooler that when hit into radiator and so recoverable for repairs and further use.

And worst a/c candidates, Breda Br. 88, Saro Lerwick and Blackburn Botha

Juha
 
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