ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Quite a few P40E around Singapore...and they are beefed up in this mod I think and quite nasty. I don't think the Oscar Ic at a blistering 308 mph can dance with these puppies and live to tell about it.
Allies are using Lightnings as CAP over Singers now...I think they are the high part of his layered CAP.
Not necessarily true.[:)]
I regularly read posts which claim that speed is the only variable that really matters in air to air combat. These disciples will always view a 308 mph max plane as being dead meat against a 374 mph max plane. This however is not how the combat algorithms operate. The importance of the other variables is always downplayed by these advocates.
The most important thing to note is that an aircraft's max speed is simply that, the maximum potential speed at the point of combat. It is not necessarily the speed flown at the point of combat. There is absolutely no guarantee that at the point of combat the Warhawk will be flying faster than the Oscar. The other variables will impact on the actual speed achieved by both planes at the point of combat. Also do not forget that the other variables are factored in to the combat algorithms to determine whether a hit is actually achieved and the degree of impact which results.
Experten can fly aircraft which on paper are inferior and still hold their own against far superior enemy airframes which are not flown by enemy experten. Even the most "inferior" airframe will usually have some design features which are not completely outclassed by the comparable design features of the enemy "superior" airframe. Maximising the design features together with the pilot attributes can go a long way to reducing (or even inverting) the speed at the point of combat.
Alfred
