What makes TTR TTR?

[The_Punisher]

Quote:IID\'s the few that were used in the CAS role were on a trial basis (book says a total of 7 used) and were under the direct command of Monty himself. It didnt work well (they were sitting ducks for infantry machine guns) so they were transferred to anti-shipping and Typhoons brought in to be tested... they weren\'t much better in Africa than Hurricanes so weren\'t deployed operationaly.

I might be getting the designation messed up...

But the Hurricaine Mk. IID had 2 40mm cannons with AP rounds. The two cannons fired at the same time with 30 rounds total (15rpg). There were several hundred of these used.

They took it then made the Hurri MkIV(b?) . It\'s practically the same plane except you could switch out the 40\'s for 2 500lb bombs. 2,000 (or so) of these planes were made (not sure about used) until 1944 or something. This includes conversions, around 800 originals.

The HurriD did excellent against the early to mid war german tanks (as did the Il2). It\'s just the late war tanks (tiger and king tiger) that proved to be difficult, but not impossible.


I actually think I know the exact book you are talking about. It made practically no mention of the IID.

http://www.vectorsite.net/avhurr.html