Ну почитайте как нормальные люди обсуждают вопрос тогда:

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читаю ...Also F4F was much harder plane to shot down than P-40. P-40 was possible to bring down with good burst of 7.7mm (I've also seen results of Japanese tests with captured P-40s and they figured P-40 is vulnerable to 7.7mm fire if shoot at from 100m or less). F4F was thought to need cannon hits to be brought down. In TR P-40 can be shot down with 7.7mm if you hit engine, but I think it's not a method reliable enough (same as in Zero case, the biggest problem seems to come from lack of pilot and pilot armor modeled).


"The Wcat could also dive away but it took longer for it to accelerate to speed. If the zeke glued to his tail before he could actually reach a speed high enough to escape he would be very likely shot to pieces. In a multy fight a breaking wcat will need ages (if able at all) to regain energy vs carefully flown zeros giving them (zeros) opportunity to thin enemy formations quickly and than picking off struggler formations or lonely planes."
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"Still it would be good to have F4F which we are 100% sure to perform right on spot. I have my concerns about it. I've read for example, that USN pilots at Henderson in August 1942 would usually take off 1 hour before Japanese raid would arrive. They would use this time to climb up to 25-26000ft, which would give them advantage over Japanese formation. Then they would dive shooting down bombers, at speed where Zeros couldn't catch them... and then continue diving to disengage. Of course some Zeros would try catching them and some mixing up had place, but generally they seemed to avoid direct engagements and went straight for bombers in such situations.
Одно мнение и подтверждение того что F4F мог уйти в пике от Зеро