Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Most early US fighters lacked things such as self-sealing tanks, cockpit armour etc etc plus they were very MG oriented just as the RAF were looking at cannons IIRC
I seem to remember the satisfaction of US saber pilots concerning the way .50 shredded migs in Korea from a number of documentaries ...
still the real german aces did ok with what they had in their 109s...15, 20 then 30mm hub cannon then twin15mm "cannon" over engine replacing 7.9mgs..