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Aye, the MC.202 had really bad armament.
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The
Macchi C.202
Folgore
(
Italian
"thunderbolt") was a
World War II
fighter aircraft
, built by
Macchi Aeronautica
and operated by the
Regia Aeronautica
(
RA
;
Italian
air force). The C.202 was a development of the earlier
C.200
Saetta
, with a more powerful
German
Daimler-Benz DB 601
engine.
Considered one of the most beautiful fighters to fly with wartime
Axis
forces,
[1]
the
Folgore
was also an effective and deadly
dogfighter
.
[1]
[2]
A prominent
Allied
foe of the C.202, the leading
Australian
air ace
Clive Caldwell
, said that the
Folgore
would have been superior to the
Messerschmitt Bf 109
, had it been better equipped with weapons;
[3]
the C.202 was lightly-armed by the standards of the time, with only two 12.7 mm and two 7.7 mm
machine guns
.
Macchi aircraft were sometimes known by the name Macchi-Castoldi. Hence the
Folgore
is occasionally referred to as the MC.202.
the MC.205 had a MG 151 20 mm Cannon, should try that one for a spin
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