Soviet Hurricanes - where, when, ...?

[kalender1973]

Originally Posted by Graham Boak

Kalendar: By late 1941 the Hurricane was outclassed by the Bf 109F, that is clearly true. But not every opposing fighter was a 109F, not every combat was fighter vs fighter, and not every mission involved aerial combat. "Dead" is too much an overstatement. By the same standard so was the Brewster Buffalo, if not more so, yet the Finns gained much success, even later than 1941. This is because of what Andrei says above, that combat involves much more than just the comparative performance of the most capable types on each side.

First, the success of Fins is not so high, if you compare it with e.g. succeses of JG54, that claims at least 5 time more soviet planes as Finns and work in the similar area under similar condition. We can only speculate, what reach the Finns fighter, if they have not the Brewster but Bf109 in 1941.

Second, the case with Finns is very nice. They have also Hurri in there inventory and ??? Did you heard that they preffer it ?? I'm not. Any succeses of Finns Hurri ? I have never heard. And please, didn't say, that they have too few Hurri: the ARR(Rumanian) has also only one squadron but it use it widely in 1941, because they have nothing else. And Finns didn't because they have better Brewster.

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by kalender1973

the ARR(Rumanian) has also only one squadron but it use it widely in 1941, because they have nothing else.

The ARR squadron equipped with Hurricanes was indeed very successful in 1941.
However, the Rumanians did have other fighters types, too, equal or superior to the Hurricane, e.g., the Bf 109E or the He 112B.