The P47 and Fw190 are two great WWII era planes, but that should wait a few lines because I will now announce the winner of the last versus post. Drumroll please….And the winner of the last versus post is….The General Dynamics F16 Fighting Falcon/Viper! Now, onto the battle. Let's start with the Focke Wulf Fw190. This plane is a boom and zoom fighter, meaning it comes out of nowhere from either below or above the enemy plane and blasts the heck out of said enemy fighter with a pair of 20mm cannons, and another pair of 13mm cannons. The Fw190 also had a very good engine. That engine was the Daimler-Benz DB 603 inverted V12 engine. It was a pretty solid engine for a pretty solid plane. The only drawback was the performance of this engine for the Fw190A variant, and that drawback was the performance and quality decreased once the Fw190 got to 20,000ft. This plane was the terror of the skies in central and eastern Europe, until one day the Americans had the bright idea to come up with a counter to this bomber-hunter aircraft-destroying monster of a plane. That counter was the Republic P47 Thunderbolt. This plane was at a whole new level. It had a beast of an engine, which was the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial engine. This plane could climb to a height of 42,000ft and be completely fine. Take that, Fw190! Aside from the engine, this thing had basically the equivalent (maybe better!) in armament to the Fw190. The P47 (AKA Flying Jug, for further reference) had eight 12.7mm machine guns. Eight! That's the same amount as the spitfire (see other post), except the spitfire had 7.7mm guns, not 12.7mm guns. To put this into perspective, 12.7mm is the same caliber as a modern-day heavy sniper rifle! Crazy! Well, we certainly had a match up here. I will tell you guys the results of this VS.
in the next post. See ya!
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