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Thread for underdog aircraft, whether they were obsolete or just poor preformers, they still kicked ass.
Curtiss P-36/ Hawk 75
This little beast claimed 1/3 of all German aircraft shot down during the Battle of France. It also claimed over 150 Soviet aircraft in Finnish service, acted as an attacker and escort in British colors in Burma and claimed a Zero during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Swordfish definitely deserves a mention for things like Taranto and the Bismarck.
>You mad cunts, you can't use a bi-plane in WW2
>Fuck your shit, here bomb
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>>33024533
fuck you OP now I want to play IL-2 again
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Let's not forget Gloster Gladiator. Especially not Hope, Faith and Glory in their defense of Malta against the Italian Airforce.
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>>33024533
These were phased out, only for the Germans to find they worked better than their replacement.
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FINLAND YES
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>>33027502
>be 123 in 1935
>take your first flight into the skies
>you look old but do your work flawlessly
>take a holiday to Spain
>everyone who flies you likes you
>1937
>new fancy Junkers are meant replace you
>get moved out of the spot light
>1939
>world in flames
>get called back into duty
>your numbers are small but you do well
>fly almost non stop from Poland to France to Greece to Russia
>endure cold Russian winters and hot summers
>where ever youre needed, you are there
>through the flak you go in and deliver your payload without a fail
>1943
>Henschel factory
>on a frosty January morning get a call
>it's from the Red Barons cousin
>the absolute madman wants us to make more 123s
>tell him it's not possible since the tooling is gone
>1944
>123 soldiers on
>his brothers have fallen one by one to the enemy or simply to age
>for years 123s have been kept going with parts salvaged from their brothers corpses
>April comes
>final 123 sortie before retirement
>not long before they are all gone
>eight years providing over watch for the boys on the ground
>fighting till they could no more
Hard to think a better end for the old workhorse
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>>33028203
Poor Buffalo. So shit on for it's performance with the Marines at Midway yet the Finns used it so well.
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Tally Ho Chaps!
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>>33028892
If that ain't a fighting death I don't know what is. One of the most underappreciated aircraft of the war.
Now here's the Mörkö-Morane. The madmen they were, those Finns, that they re-engined their M.S.406s with Soviet-captured Klimov M-105Ps, and did some other changes as well.
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Underpowered with not super charger, the P-400 fought some pretty desperate defensive actions and attack missions during the Guadalcanal campaign.
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>>33028950
The Finns can make any old piece of shit work.
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>>33029629
It's more of the poor showing of the Soviet Air Force than in any qualities of the Buffalo. Not that I'm downplaying the skill and determination of Finnish pilots.
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>>33024533
>simple
>reliable
>too low and slow for more modern aircraft to engage
>inherent radar S T E A L T H due to wood/fabric construction
>the only biplane in existence to ever claim a jet kill
need I say more?
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