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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 9:00 am
by Ranger-75
German production reaching the heights that it currently does, it would probably be better to increase the cost of the FW190s rather than decrease the cost of the Me109s. I can see good logic in that, but I'll still pay yhe increased cost for the FW190s.
I have no comment on the P39. Let the soviets have all they want for lend-lease. I'll stick with P40s and F4Fs:p
Re: Me 109 - a bomber killer????
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:27 pm
by Vern
You can say much about the Me109, but it was never a bomber killer. the weaponary of the Me109 was to weak. The Me109 carried one 20mm cannon and two 1,3mm MG, later a 30mm gun. All this weapons had very little ammo.
The Fw carried much more firepower from the very beginning and what is more important the FWs had more ammo onboard.
In the fights against the Allied bombers Mes took the fighter escorts, the Fws the bombers. [/QUOTE]
This is surely right, but at least in one respect the Me109 was a better bomber interceptor than the FW: its performance at high altitudes was clearly superior to the FW190.
Although this, of course, is no advantage when dogfighting on the Eastern Front. So I´m wondering why the Russkies - as stated before - deemed the Me109 a better fighter. Maybe they didn´t know them too well because there simply were hardly any?