BF109G What's the point ?

[Voyager]

The G-2 has a more powerful engine, and I believe it had somewhat better armour than the F-4. The MG151/20 20mm cannon used on the 109F and G's has significantly better ballistics and performance than the MG FF cannon used on the BF-109E.

The G-6 trades the 7.9mm machine guns for 13mm MGs, adds heavier armour, and they we designed to accept field and factory modification kits. Most of those kits were either 20mm or 30mm cannons mounted in underwing gondolas, and as the MK108 production spooled up, they started getting 30mm nose guns too. Generally, for bomber busting, you're talking about a plane armed with 3x30mm MK108 cannon and 2x13mm MG131 machine guns, and maybe an AtA bomb.

On the Eastern front, didn't the 109's tend to operate clean, i.e. without the gondolas?

How was the G-10 the best 109? My understanding was that the G-10s were used 109G's that had been re-manufactured up to 109K-4 standards.

Harry Voyager