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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon
And where did a weight of 12.1 kg for the light alloy plating come from?
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From a detailed report.
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That the 8mm thick 109E "armour" weighed only 46 kg indicates that it was not armour plate, which would have weighed considerably more, but probably a toughened alloy of some kind, or a sandwich of armour and alloy.
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You are simply wrong.
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Then we have the usual assertion of how bad British methods were cf the uber German...
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Well the British method was to put relatively low thickness armor plates in a lot of places, which were useful when you were shooted at with non-AP munition or by German bombers. Unfortunately the thickness used on British fighters (4.5 mm back plate, 6.2mm head plate) was only marginally effective when shot at by even 7.92mm AP munition.