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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
I don't know for the Hurricane, but the Spitfire was designed for four MGs originally, then came the Air Ministry's specs for eight machineguns, leading to the re-design of the wings which were now of elliptic form.
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Its my understanding that the change from 4 to 8 guns was done at the mock up stage before production started.
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In all fairness, neither could the RAF for about another six months if I recall correctly.  Its true that the first AI systems were employed in 1940 by a Blenheim, but it was more an experimental set in field test rather than anything more serious.
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The first radar kill by a Beaufighter was in November 1940 and the first Blenhiem NF kill was in July 1940. There were of course other kills between the two and whilst I do not doubt that there was a lot of development in this time, there wasn't a 6 month gap.