A Mosquito vs. a P-38.......equal pilots, equal conditions..who wins and why?
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Just for sh*ts and giggles....
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Posts: 82 ( 8-Mar-2008 04:47:08) |
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Posts: 32 ( 8-Mar-2008 08:15:12) |
Best guess, P-38 due to armor and metal frame being able to take more damage then the wooden Mosquito. But, who knows for sure. Would be fun
to watch though.
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Dave Bender |
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Posts: 6263 ( 8-Mar-2008 14:58:16) |
Not much of a contest. The Mosquito will win at night. The P-38 will win in a daytime fight.
Mosquito vs the German Me-410 is a better contest as they are both night intruder aircraft. The are also similiar in performance. |
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Posts: 3542 ( 8-Mar-2008 16:35:19) |
Gunnersmate04 wrote: I'd bet on the P-38: it was, after all, after all conceived as a fighter aircraft, not a fast bomber.
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Posts: 374 ( 8-Mar-2008 22:20:17) |
Sachmle wrote: The Mosquito fighters had four 20mm cannon. The P-38 airframe is no more able to resist this than the Moquito can the P-38's weapons (and Mosquito's historically survived damage from german 13 and 20mm cannon, so I think you're underestimating it's ruggedness). It also rather depends on the engine spec of the Mosquito. A typical Mosquito was good for about 415mph flat out - which roughly the same as the P-38, but various kits could get the speed up to about 450 mph |
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Posts: 85 (10-Mar-2008 15:01:37) |
Wasn't there a P-38 variant that was used exclusively for night time? I think it was called the BlackWidow?
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Posts: 27 (10-Mar-2008 17:30:47) |
Gunnersmate04 wrote: No, the Black Widow was a completely different aircraft - the Northrop P-61. The P-38M was the two-seat night-fighter version which saw limited service in the Pacific in the last days of the war. |
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