Reponse to Six Nifty 50’sand to MW Giles
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Six Nifty 50’s 1st May 2011, 21:15
On the Western Front, the Junkers 87 had a brief career because it was a deathtrap. Based on Korean war experience, I don't believe that the Il-2 Sturmovik would have fared much better.
3rd May 2011, 20:41 MW Giles
The Ju87 had been shot out the sky and withdrawn from the action in the BoB. The Il-2 may have been wonderful, but they had been shot down in droves in the German advance into USSR ....
The home grown Fairey Battle had been a death trap.
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Actually, i guess that Il-2 survived and was produced up to 36 163 planes, because it was neither a Ju-87, nor a Battle.
In fact, first serial planes reached 423 (sometimes written 433) km/h at SL and 451 at 2 500m at 5 335kg clean. So it was as fast as the Hurricane tested in NII-VVS at Low Level, about 100 km/h (60 mph)faster than Stuka, Battle and Dauntless, HS-129 around 0-7 000ft. Was highly manoeuvrable, well protected and could operate from short unprepared airfields previously used by I-152 or R-Zet. So far the best of it's category...
Comparing it with Typhoon, can be usefull but it's like apples and oranges again...
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