Comments by "Tiago D\x27Agostini" (@tiagodagostini) on "Military Aviation History" channel.

  1.  @donyoung1384  MK IX against the FW of same period had inferior roll rate, inferior instant turn rate over 450 km/h, Inferior top speed, larger drag coefficient (so it accelerated slower in dives), less firepower. It had higher max climb rate, better sustained turn,better low speed handling, Hardly anyoen woudl cosnider the mk IX definnitely better than the FW 190. The MK IX only became a match later when it got allowed to use very high octane fuel (that woudl kill the engine in a short lifetime, but at that point in war UK had no problems replacing the engines anymore)
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  2. People need to be realistic on a route of expansions. The logic would be to expand in a scenario where minimum number of planes and new resource is needed. The north France /channel front of 1941 would be a good one on that aspect since The German planes are already covered. There is already one spitfire. The number of needed resources becomes smaller. The extra british content then later can be used in a Burma expansion (With need of doing ONLY japanese planes) After there are japanese planes, it becomes logical to add american planes
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  3. And that is where the FW190 left the spitfires into dust when it appeared. It would just split S disengage and go hunt other plane. IT was really hard for the MK V to fight the FW190 on a furball.
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  4. Damm When I read that the spot range is only 10 km.. that made me lose all hope of having a nice game.
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  5.  @EDesigns_FL  No helicopter can be stealth because the ROTORS are absurdly visible to radars. In fact the KS-52 having smaller diameter rotors are among the LEAST observable by radars, but as they are helicopters they are ALWAYS easy pray for modern radars.
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  6. Well on the initial statement, the Inferior Roll rate of the spitfire (specially against the 190 that had absurd roll rate) is so factual that the british developed the clipped wing version as a stop gap attempt to improve it. Also wing places weapons are indeed a bit harder to hit with due to convergence issues, both are factually correct.
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  7.  @madmoses7830 Yes but it was mostly busy with the FW190 A3 as well. that was a way more serious threat then the 109E
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  8.  @donyoung1384  It was inferior to the F!90 in EVERY single improtant measurable aspect. High speed climb, engine automation, Dive speed, sea level speed, roll rate, 5km alt speed, firepower, high speed elevator authority. The spitfire was only superior at the compeltely irrelevant turn radius (by that point in war only idiots turned in fights) and slow speed max climb rate (thta is an important aspect for ain interceptor, both both paled comapred to the Bf109 on thataspect).
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  9. BEcause you do not produce a weapon ONLY if it is superior to your enemy. It was the best they coudl do with a high troughput of production I can use the very same argument on "why the germans continued producing the FWE190 until the end of war"? See yoru argument is pure nonsense. Just check numbers. The only spirtire that was superior to the FW190 in most aspects (although it still lost in automation, roll rate and elevator authority) was the XIV.  @donyoung1384  You need to learn that war is nto a video game. PRoduction and logistics are the prime aspects. The Soviets had the T44 adn the IS3 before the war ended, but they continued to produce the T34-85 and IS2.. why? LOGISTICS and production chain.
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  10.  @phaserush1024  Maneuverability in ACM is 60% roll rate 30% immediate pitch and 10% rest. Sustained roll rate is nearly irrelevant when a plaen with superior roll rate can reverse the turn in 1 second and you need 8 secodns to complete the same reversal.
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