Hi exec. I found a book about details of the 410 - but it is written in polnish. I put the pages where the defense weapons are mentioned at the following link. http://members.tripod.com/kg51edelweiss/id312.htm Maybe someone who can read polnish could check the text to find out if the radius of the defensive weapons are mentioned. Cheers Babek
Is that RAF P-63 in the background. Did RAF use that plane or was it captured by Germans from Soviets and then catured by RAF from Luftwaffe? Maybe George Prescott sold it direct to Germans. P-63 could be a good FH plane. Easy to make from P-39 but probably not different enough from P39Q (about 40 km/h faster, double the 37mm ammo, 17% higher rate of 37mm fire, 3 hardpoints for bombs, better alt performance) to be worth modeling.
I have a book by a Soviet Air Force general that states that 2400 P-63 were recieved by the Soviets. It wasn't in combat against Germans, as by May 1945 only 51 Kingcobras were on active service, all with IAD-PVO air defense regiments. However on August 15, 1945 two Japanese planes Ki-27 or Ki-43 were shot down by P-63s of 17 IAP members Captain Viacheslav Sirotin and Jr Lieutenant Miroshnichenko. On August 1, 1945 P-63As were in service on the Transbaikal front with 17 IAP, 21 IAP (17 and 21 were 190 IAD), 821 IAP, 781 IAP and 940 IAP (781 and 940 were 245 IAD); on the far eastern front with 888 IAP (they had just transitioned from I-16 - they were the last IAP to have been using the Polikarpov)and 410 ShAP (transition from Il-2, their name may have been changed to 410 IAP. 410 and 888 together were 128 SAD); and latter, but in time to see combat, with the Pacific Ocean Fleet Air Flotilla in 6 IAP and 7 IAD-PVO. The two air-to-air kills mentioned above were the only ones ever made by the Kingcobra.
