Blenheim MkIVF fighter ops:
Result:
2 x He-115 destroyed
1 x Bf109E-3 destroyed
1 x Blenheim Mk IVF destroyed - pilot kill
we should think to use it more!
but first i need to know how to fly a Blennie!!!
PS could be good with some help from hurries and spits in mixed formations!!!
It’s not brilliant as a fighter, lets be honest, but it can take some damage when gunners are blasting away at it. The concentration of the gun pack does seem to be pretty effective - as you saw it wasn’t a long burst that set the engine of the Heinkel on fire. I wanted to bring the guns to bear on the 109 but couldn’t so all credit to the AI gunner in this instance. It seems the 109 was just sat right behind me when he got the pilot kill (you can hear the DB601 engine!) I have no idea why he seemed to find it so hard to shoot me down - the actual video of that was over 6 minutes long (I cut it down drastically!)
Once you get it up to altitude though it is slow and unresponsive. The Blue bombers tend to fly too high for it to be any use. If they are Angels 16 or lower then there is a chance of getting them - buttony if they are unescorted. Tying our other fighters to it though is probably a mistake as it is too slow - but it might distract the escorts. The thing I’d like to use it for is to head over to Criel and hit their supply base. It has the range to loiter over there and damage the aircraft - bearing mind that is all it has to do for the sortie to be scrubbed and the aircraft to be returned to the supply base after landing! Thing is it’s an almost certain one-way trip. I wouldn’t expect to come back very often, but it would be a good mission to do once there is a hole in their radar.