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Old 11-22-2010, 12:01 PM
Avimimus Avimimus is offline
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Originally Posted by IceFire View Post
Yep I have those two... that's actually how I noticed that change over in the first place. I guess my question is still... how capable was the Me410 versus the Ju88 as a bomber? I see the Me410 as a faster Bf110 which is not bad compared to the Ju88 as a bomber but it lacks things like the Stuvi bombsight, level bombsight, etc.
Somewhat smaller, 100kph faster, similar, less crew and one 50%-30% of the bomb load.

The Me-410 has good forward/downward visibility (perhaps better than the Ju-88. I'm not sure about how well the more advanced bombsights compensated for the lack of a dedicated bombardier.
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