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Originally Posted by David603
Really? I thought it was common for K4s to be armed with the underwing 20mm gunpods.
Can't find a good source at the moment but there is a quote from wiki.
The 30mm cannon were extremely potent weapons, but they had a tendency to jam, and apparently all of the K-4s supplied to III./JG 26 were also equipped with 20mm-guns in the hated underwing tubs. Uffz. Georg Genth's regular aircraft was a G-10, but on occasion he flew a K-4. He preferred the G-10 as a dogfighter, as the K-4's bulky armament sharply reduced its manouevrability.
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I take anything I read on Wikipedia with a pinch of salt. I've had a look through some of my books and still found no
photographic evidence of underwing cannon equipped K-4's. Though I have found that the type officially existed as K4/R4 it does seem like it was a rare occurance.