WW2 british RAF gun camera footage 20mm cannon hawker hurricane WW2

hawker hurricane was the tough fighter. drooping nose making visibility better.
wooden construction easier to repair +return to battle.
wider undercarrage, made it easier to land than a spitfire
RAF gun camera footage 20mm cannon hawker hurricane WW2 vs JU88

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[smilo996]

Spitfire was produced throughout WW2, the only British plane that was. The Hurricane was fitted with 4 20mm cannon where as the Spitfire used (initially) .303 machine guns. Then 2 cannon with 60 rounds each and 4 .303's. The 190 had 4 cannon and 2 machine guns. So actually the Spitfire was the least armed of the three. Beautiful nonetheless. The Hurricane always gets overlooked. Form over function I guess.

[infernalzen]

@smilo996 seeing the spitfire +hurricane side by side, i was suprised to see the hurricane was larger :o

[LordGeorgeRodney]

Just don't mention Albert Pierrepoint to the Nazis he hung 200 of them after Nuremburg trials

[infernalzen]

@LordGeorgeRodney carrying out a sentance after an exhaustive legal process?

[tomburley]

@Gelebify There are several reasons for the higher number of German aces. The top 2 reasons being that the Luftwaffe didn't rotate pilots - they flew in active service throughout the war and secondly in the early years of the war they were up against inferior aircraft types in Poland, France & Russia - Even UK. German pilots had combat experience gained in Spanish Civil War and Allied pilots (especially in Russia) had very little, if any, combat training.

[wWwebBrowser]

@18tangles I was refering too people trying to win

arguments by gratuitous swearing

[18tangles]

@Gelebify I had the list of how many planes the jerries shot down above 50 kills it came to around 17000 now why didnt they win?. I think some figures were inflated, and they were notorious as lying mongrels the germans.See a puff of smoke 'oh herman I got another give me the iron cross with emeralds and rubies with a sprey of wattle" We have been conned.

[18tangles]

@wWwebBrowser It is not just on this site its on all of them, I think mainly young people.

[18tangles]

@wWwebBrowser I thank you but to what are you refering to?

[18tangles]

@Gelebify did not help them they lost.

[wWwebBrowser]

@18tangles

Thank you, I'm weary of making the same post.

[wWwebBrowser]

@Gelebify

When you sneak attack countries that are not ready for war, your gonna get lots of kills. No disputing that the Germans had a good air force, but they were flying against unprepared nations.

When the Allies got into the grove, they beat them, plain and simple.

[chrisbenedictus]

@smilo996 Not completely true about the Spitfire. It had 4 wing types A (x8 .303 mg), B (x8 .303 mg or x2 20mm cannon + x4 .303 mg), C (x2 20mm cannon + x4 .303 mg or x4 20mm cannon), D (unarmed for photo recon) and E (x2 20mm cannon + x2 .50 mg). Later in the war, the C and E wing types became more common, and x4 20mm cannon became standard in late variants.

[18tangles]

@seanhennessy what about?