Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "The Blackburn Roc; A Terrible Fighter but a Good Idea?" video.

  1. There’s a Defiant at Hendon.
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  2. Very underpowered.
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  3. Did you not hear his description of zero offset shooting?
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  4.  @TommygunNG  Bozhe moi.
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  5.  @SAHBfan  I agree but I can’t remember where I saw it either.
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  6. Very. Eric Brown made this point very well in his book.
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  7. Nope. Without radar, its career was going to be short.
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  8. Very few did.
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  9. You missed the point. The “theory” behind this was the spectacular success of the Bristol Fighter in WWI. Who could say for sure the same tactics would not work?
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  10.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  What do you mean my theories? They weren’t my theories. Your criticisms are just hindsight. Unless you had a crystal ball, there was no way of knowing what would work in a new war and what wouldn’t.
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  11. No but it could fire over the prop.
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  12. Yankee go home.
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  13. Aaaand provided sterling service even in the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict.
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  14.  @scottclaymore8097  Totally different aircraft. Better is as better does and the Buccaneer was in service almost as long as the A6.
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  15.  @scottclaymore8097  Ooooh someone’s angry. Blackburn was never more than a second tier manufacturer, like Fairey. Most of their work in WWII was building sub assemblies or other people’s designs. They didn’t do a lot of their own design work. Besides, the Skua and the Roc were both designed in an era where an aircraft could be obsolete in a matter of months but they still had to be built. They were also designed to work against a navy that never fielded an aircraft carrier.
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  16.  @scottclaymore8097  Well, you sounded annoyed. If not, no harm done. I can't comment on the Firebrand or he Beverley because I don't know anything about them. I did read Eric Brown's pilot report on the Firebrand and the impression I got was that the mission it was designed to perform was obsolete. That's more a problem of the specification than the aircraft.
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  17. They had the.misfortune to be produced at a time when months could mean the difference between effectiveness and obsolescence. This was not unique to British aircraft either. American designs, such as the TBD were very modern in the late 1930s and obsolete by 1942. But let’s make a comparison just for yucks: the American SBD Dauntless and the Fairey Battle. They were not that far apart, in terms of design yet one was an outstanding success and the other a deplorable failure. Under the right conditions, what might the Battle have achieved? To take that even further, the TDB is regarded as a failure, yet the even more anachronistic Fairey Swordfish was very successful.
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  18. Because there was no point.
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  19. The Defiant was quite successful, shooting down more German bombers than any other type in the winter of 1940-41. Some of this was luck because interception techniques were very primitive in that period.
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  20.  @sheeplord4976  Go back to sleep.
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  21. Brewster Buffalo.
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