|
Re: Placing the Fairey Battle.
Graham, I believe there was a smaller drag induced by Tempest's airfoil. Typhoon was indeed fast but not that fast, hence the need of Spitfire XIIs. Overall, judging by the fact that Tornado/Typhoon had to be the main aircraft of Fighter Command (nobody considered Spitfires seriously) but saw the service some 2 years after the plan in a rather limited role and almost cancelled, reaching some usable form only after further 2 years as a Tempest, not to mention Sea Fury that entered the service after the war, it was a failure. I presume the main reason the whole toy was continued was because of both Hawker being a major player and no alternative for production there.
Concerning Soviets, the one must be extremelly careful claiming air superiority there. Air superiority as we understand it was on the Western front and not in any way comparable to the East, just under the very same universal rules of aerial warfare. Of course unless someone uses 'inversed knowledge' which is quite common unfortunatelly.
|