21.06.2008, 09:26
Good points to consider there, and mission makers sometimes forget those kind of issues..
The plight of the Gladiators and also other aircraft like the Buffalo are pretty historic however.. Many pilots had little chance of any kind of interception when flying those types if they didn't meet the incoming bomber stream with a good margin of altitude advantage..
During the japanese invasion of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, it was a standing joke among RAF pilots who crewed Buffalos, that if they were scrambled to meet incoming Nipponese bombers, they could do very little apart from shout at them! They had no hope of interception unless they were already up at altitude..
The plight of the Gladiators and also other aircraft like the Buffalo are pretty historic however.. Many pilots had little chance of any kind of interception when flying those types if they didn't meet the incoming bomber stream with a good margin of altitude advantage..
During the japanese invasion of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, it was a standing joke among RAF pilots who crewed Buffalos, that if they were scrambled to meet incoming Nipponese bombers, they could do very little apart from shout at them! They had no hope of interception unless they were already up at altitude..