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To: Billthedrill

The way I heard it...the Swordfish was too slow for the “advanced fire control” and the automatic cannon and machine guns to track.


24 posted on 12/13/2016 3:59:54 PM PST by Overtaxed (Party like it's 1908!)
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To: Overtaxed

>The way I heard it...the Swordfish was too slow for the “advanced fire control” and the automatic cannon and machine guns to track.

Yep. They didn’t design it with WW1 planes in mind. It shot down or drove off all the other types of planes attacking it.


30 posted on 12/13/2016 4:45:50 PM PST by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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