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Old 3rd Jun 2020, 08:42
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Originally Posted by Brewster Buffalo
The RAF acquired about1,000 of these the last being delivered in February 1942. Surprised production wasn't switched to something else once its weaknesses were exposed.
Defiant production was delayed when the government decided to give priority to the already obsolescent Blackburn Roc which B-P were building; so why wasn't Roc production curtailed too?
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