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Re: Why DB-3f is counted as one of the old types on 22 June 41?
Hello
one correction, I checked the performance figures of I-16 Type 24 from the text in Gordon and Khazanov and it seemed that production Type 24s were clearly slower than the prototype of the type. So in service Type 24 was some 10km/h slower than Brewster B 239 and some 35km/h slower than He 112B, if 112B could in service attain 510km/h. B 239s usually were capable to reach manufacturer’ figures in Finnish tests, which really wasn’t a norm in case of most of Finnish AF fighter types.
Type 24 was still clearly better climber and so on but according to Gordon and Khazanov, the weight of cannon in Types 27 and 28 affected their manoeuvrability considerably.
Juha
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