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Originally Posted by Sita
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Great, thank you.
VVS applied many field mods to the Havoc. Browsing around is easy to find transparent panels applied to solid nose A20s, more windows behind the turret (for a navigator, as there is an astrodome), a rack for a torpedo on the left fuselage side, obliquely mounted cannons firing downward for strafing, heavy UB machine gun in the ventral hatch position, four men crew, radar antennae and the list goes on. One wonders why Russians used so much ingenuity and creativity on a single type. The best answer probably is: Because it was possible, as the A20-Boston was easily adaptable and tolerant of modifications.
I’m not requesting all these variants, of course.
10-09-2015, 08:13 AM
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