Hawker Typhoon fighter, British RAF No. 198 Squadron, CHANNEL STOP operations 1942-1944.
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British Royal Air Force Typhoon ground-attack fighter of No.198 Squadron during English Channel shipping interdiction sorties, 1942-1944. 1.48 1990s-era Hasegawa model kit, upper brush painted medium grey and forest green, bottom airbrushed light grey.
Given Typhoon's shape, some British pilots mistaken it to be German Fw-190 fighters. Operating close to ground, some British anti-aircraft batteries mistaken it to be low-level German aerial assaults.
Therefore, black and white stripes were painted underneath both wings and fuselage for ease of aerial and ground recognition (pattern was slightly different from 1944 Normandy D-Day invasion stripes).
Typhoon armed with eight 3-inch U-rockets on launch rails, with armor piercing warheads these rockets were quite effective against both ships and tanks.
However, rocket launch rails disrupted Typhoon maneuver, hence its pilots tended to fire all rockets in single volley to rectify performance nuisance. In resolving this problem, rocket launch rails replaced with wing stubs by late war period.
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