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Very nice looking aircraft indeed.A question for you warbird experts.Didn't the ME110 start off escorting bombers but during the Battle of Britain it proved too cumbersome against the Spits and Hurricanes and ended up needing an escort itself?.But went onto have more success as a night fighter?.
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Very cool! Love the paint scheme. The new warbirds are just fantastic.
I might be wrong but I think the ME110 was originally designed as a stand alone fighter and did well in Poland and the lowlands in the early part of the war. The Battle of Britain changed things though and, when they came up against Spitfires and Hurricanes, found their only way out of a scrap was to go into a defensive circle like wagon trains used to in the wild west. They were then pulled back to escorting the bombers but still needed fighter cover themselves. They were most useful as night fighters later in the war.
I'm pretty sure this aircraft is from the 'Wespen' (wasp) unit operating out of the Balkans (Caucasus) in 1942.
Could be totally wrong tho...
Kiwi
I'm pretty sure this aircraft is from the 'Wespen' (wasp) unit operating out of the Balkans (Caucasus) in 1942.
Could be totally wrong tho...
Kiwi
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I have question too, is this the (Bf 110) that Rudolf Hess used to fly from to Scotland?
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No. Here is some info on Hess' plane.
The aeroplane was smashed into bits and partly burnt, so not much remained other than a chunk of fuselage with the letters VJ on one side of the German Cross and OQ on the other. In fact the V was really an N, with the initial upright burnt off, so the designation was NJ + OQ. NJ signified a night fighter squadron. The Q was unusual because it was not normally used, being too easily confused with O and G. The plane was fitted with underwing drop tanks, with fuel for an extended flight, but they had been dropped. One was recovered in the river Clyde to the west of the crash.
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Hi Louis-
Agree with you. Now I just hope that the next releases will not be based on the Arado Ar-196 or any Japanese planes. My bank account needs a break
Pierre.
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I might be wrong but I think the ME110 was originally designed as a stand alone fighter and did well in Poland and the lowlands in the early part of the war. The Battle of Britain changed things though and, when they came up against Spitfires and Hurricanes, found their only way out of a scrap was to go into a defensive circle like wagon trains used to in the wild west. They were then pulled back to escorting the bombers but still needed fighter cover themselves. They were most useful as night fighters later in the war.
I'm pretty sure this aircraft is from the 'Wespen' (wasp) unit operating out of the Balkans (Caucasus) in 1942.
Could be totally wrong tho...
Kiwi
You are right about the ME-110's original purpose as a long range escort fighter which embarassingly needed ME-109 escorts during the Battle of Britain. I have a mahogany 1/32 version of the ME-110 Wasp with markings "G9 Balkan cross symbol IN." The "I' is in red while the other letters are black. There is also a yellow fusilage band forward of those markings.
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I might be wrong but I think the ME110 was originally designed as a stand alone fighter and did well in Poland and the lowlands in the early part of the war. The Battle of Britain changed things though and, when they came up against Spitfires and Hurricanes, found their only way out of a scrap was to go into a defensive circle like wagon trains used to in the wild west. They were then pulled back to escorting the bombers but still needed fighter cover themselves. They were most useful as night fighters later in the war.
I'm pretty sure this aircraft is from the 'Wespen' (wasp) unit operating out of the Balkans (Caucasus) in 1942.
Could be totally wrong tho...
Kiwi
This model is a Bf 110C-4/B from the Zerstörergeschwader (ZG) 1
based in Caucasus (Krasnodar) in October 1942.
The unit was called Wespen Geschwader and a wasp was painted on the nose of the planes.
The first flight by a Bf 110 was on May 12, 1936 and the aircraft was in service from January 1939 (ten were delivered for evaluation) until March 1945 while a last Bf 110G was completed.
The total production was about 6 050 aircrafts.
The Bf 110 was first submitted by Messerschmitt as a twin-engine fighter with the capability of being used as high-speed bombers.
The Bf 110 was successful during the Polish campaign and became prestigious as a bomber destroyer after the Battle of Heligoland Bight in December 1939.
When the Battle of Britain began, the Bf 110 were used to bring the RAF fighters into combats while the German bombers were making their way to England. That stategy was a failure as the Bf 110 were unable to compete with the Hurricanes and Spitfires.
The losses were severe (120 in August 1940).
Because of the shortage of German single-engine fighters, the Bf 110s were kept in service but switched to fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles.
During the winter of 1940, the Bf 110 was used, for the first time, as a night-fighter.
Over the war, variants incuded long-range fighter-bomber, convoy escort (with extrafuel), long-range reconnaissance and heavy day-fighter.
In fact, the Bf 110 was a poor day-fighter but a great night-fighter.
Pierre.
