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Originally Posted by Chris Goss
Paul
I would have thought that such barbettes were more effective as a warning as opposed to actually shooting a jinking target down.
I do not have such figures-don't forget II/KG 51 as well
Chris
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Chris,
Thank you for your reply. The ineffectiveness of the barbettes throws an interesting light on the persistent Luftwaffe interest in such equipment. Perhaps they should have stayed away from this technical innovation altogether.
ArtieBob's recently published part 2 of the Ju 88 book has statistics on II./KG 51 losses in Steinbock - 17 combat and 4 non-combat. I think other data will be harder to find, so I'll keep looking!
Regards,
Paul