[Larry]

I don't think it is as mad as comparing a WW1 FT-17 with a WW2 Tiger Tank at all.

After all the Mikulin Am38F engine gave 1,770 hp, which is similar to the Battle's Merlin.

Also 2x 20mm cannons in each Battle wing and rockets underneath might have been much more useful than one fixed forward firing 0.303 MG and conventional bombs dropped out of the wing bomb bay.

Sturmoviks flew at very low altitude, some say it few below 20 feet, which was no doubt far too low for a Battle trying to release 'conventional' bombs on a German pontoon bridge in 1940.

Plenty of WW2 aircraft morphed in to something else such as the Alison powered Mustang compared to those P-51Ds that flew to Berlin and back.