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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Hrolf Hakonson" (Apr 1st 2009, 12:00pm)
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Originally posted by Hood
I like this variant better, good strafer with guns that can tackle light armour with reduced (but still useful) bombload. Fits the Argentine doctrine like a glove. If only I'd had some a few years back...
How thick are the armoured windscreen panels?
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Armoured glass windscreens were more difficult to make in sufficient strength while maintaining good transparancy, and armoured glass is also very heavy. The laminated glass panels developed for the B-17 were about 40 mm thick, and they would stop a rifle-calibre bullet at 100 yards. But these large panels and weighed 88 kg per square meter (18 lb per sq. ft.). Fighter windscreens were smaller, and could be thicker and better supported; armourglass of up to 90 mm was used. Even so the front remained less well protected than the rear. In single-engined fighters the pilot was protected against fire from the front by the engine. Protection of the engine itself and the vulnerable cooling systems of liquid-cooled engines was almost impossible.
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Kaiser Kirk" (Apr 10th 2009, 5:05am)
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