Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk.IA: The Same Aircraft, Now Under Lend Lease!

Yes however there were some key design s
differences between the US variants, ive linked my suggestions for them in the Spoiler as im not wanting to go too off topic in this thread, Personally I would say 2.0 for the Mk.I and 2.3 for the Mk.IIB, with the MK.IIA being 2.3 as a premium.

links to suggestions

Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.I: Designed in America, Bought by the French, Used by the British

Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.IIA: Imperfect Perfection

Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.IIB: Perfecting the Imperfect

thanks these are great ideas. I hope we get them someday

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Britain flew the Kittyhawks in the thousands, it’s silly not to include any of them.

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gib

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I believe the Mk.IA is the same as the P-40E-1, so here are the characteristics as they appear in Tactical Planning Characteristics & Performance Charts, current as of 23 February 1945 alongside other variants of the P-40:

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Yes, the Mk.IA is literally the P-40E-1 we have in game, so its performance will be identical to that

Having done some more research I have updated the bomb load of this and the Mk.I, it can carry a bomb of up to 1000 lbs under the fuselage and at least 2 x 500 lbs under each wing, it also appears to have a maximum bomb load of around 2000 lbs

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Awesome! Now I want it even more!

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+1 for more Kittyhawks

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The mk1 (not the mk1a) had 4 50 cals, it was basically a weight recuded p40E1, the photo of the bomb racks in the forum is a kittyhawk mk3 which is basically a p40M but had those custom racks for xtra bombs, (it was called the kittybomber), also the skins on the american p40e1 werent often used on the e1, the gloria lyons, was from a p40N, the wairarapa wildcat skin was a p40M and N flown by geoffrey fisken, commonwealths top scoring ace ive heard, and most of the skins are from other variants, it would be cool to see the later war variants in the british and american tech tree though