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Re: Any dispute about interpreting the BofB?
Hello
On Spitfires at the beginning of the war.
According to Price, 306 had been delivered to RAF, 10 sqns were fully equipped with it and one was in the process of re-equipping. A further 71 Spitfires were in MUs, 36 were already written-off.
Also Price wrote that 11 of the Spits in MUs were being employed for trials work and one was at CFS. S0 it seems that according to Price, 199 Spitfires were in sqns, of which one was in the process of re-equipping. The difference was exactly 12 to the Bowyers' figure I gave earlier, maybe it is explained by the Spits at 609 Sqn or the question is on the 12 Spits employed in tests or at CFS, were they incl. in those in MUs or not.
On I-16, Soviet 20mm ShVAK was good and powerful cannon, but rather heavy for I-16, so most I-16s produced had 4 x 7,62mm mgs, the last production version had 1 x 12,7mm + 2 x 7,62mm mgs.
Juha
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