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05-21-2005, 12:01 PM
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Has anyone got any information on the Mohawk .IV served with the RAF?
Information and pictures of RAF Mohawk IVs only, please. No I - IIIs! Ideally those over the CBI.
Thank you in advance.
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05-24-2005, 12:56 PM
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Country:  | Mohawk IV were used by squadrons no. 5 and 155 (only a brief time by 146 in 1942 and converted to Buffalo and Hurricane)
No 5 converted to Hurricane II in june 1943 and later to Thunderbolt.
No 155 to Spitfire VIII in jan. 1944
All of them operated in CBI in various roles: patrols, air defense, bomber escort, ground attack, recce.
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05-24-2005, 06:47 PM
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Country: | What about the Specs. because I'm getting mixed reports of either 4 or 6 .303.
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05-25-2005, 03:46 AM
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| It's OK, I've found all the info I need. It had 6 .303's , two in the nose, four in the wings. Here are some pics.
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05-25-2005, 11:41 AM
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05-26-2005, 02:24 AM
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Country: | What an excellent aircraft, better high and low speed characteristics than the Spitfire Mk.I. Better take-off and climb characteristics.
I think speed is quite vital though and if it's slow at picking up speed from a dive as well, it won't be very good from above. It'd be more capable of evading destruction, rather than destroying. Unless of course someone gets into a turn fight with it. Perfect for fighting IJAAF Oskars and IJN Zeros!
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05-26-2005, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by plan_D What an excellent aircraft, better high and low speed characteristics than the Spitfire Mk.I. Better take-off and climb characteristics. | Isn't it just, they arsed it up big time when they developed it into the P-40.
Such a waste of a potentially good aircraft.
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05-26-2005, 05:46 AM
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Country: | It just need a more powerful engine and I think the Mohawk had the potential to be one of the best aircraft of war! I always thought it was dog until I read that.
The speed would be a problem. That's why they took it away from Europe. You've got Bf-109s diving down on you at high speed, it's going to be hard for the Mohawk to hit anything. Putting in the CBI was a good decision...A6Ms weren't very fast and liked to turn...
Still, the Hawks the FAF had didn't stand a chance when I come zooming in with my La-5! (On Il-2)
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05-26-2005, 06:03 AM
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| Did you also know that the Hawk-75 was the first US built aircraft to get a kill in both the European & Pacific theatres of war? You don't get that kind of info from most "historians", this aircraft was mostly ignored.
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05-26-2005, 07:11 AM
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