JDK's famous pointless quiz. No.8606

gregv · **Posted:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:16 pm

JDK

I didn't realize that those were the gun troughs 'flipped"; bloody clever really. I thought that the deletion of the fuselage guns was standard on some weapons fitment configurations on the '190, so maybe it has less to do with it being a Mistel component, and more just the way it was gunned? Then again, not sure how much of a difference the two guns in question would make should some roaming Allied fighters come upon a Mistel combo....

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greg v.

JDK · **Posted:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:13 pm

gregv wrote:

I didn't realize that those were the gun troughs 'flipped"; bloody clever really.

It is, if it's a recreation of 'as it was', but not if it was a restoration error, which is a suspicion I have.

gregv wrote:

Then again, not sure how much of a difference the two guns in question would make should some roaming Allied fighters come upon a Mistel combo....

Remember the upper (piloted) unit would drop the lower (bomb) unit - and the piloted unit needed to get home! Guns would go well to help that. Dropping the guns would hardly make a difference, and fairing the gun troughs - why bother?

JDK · **Posted:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:57 pm

For those that want to know, here's the full aircraft.

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