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This picture is a picture of Heinkel He 111. It was used during World war 2 by the Germans. The article also talks about many campaigns in which it was used. It stays. Is that understood? 103.100.11.3 ( talk) 04:01, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
" the passenger variants had their wings reduced from 25 to 2 m (82.0 to 6.6 ft)"
Is this correct? 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:A46F:EF6:553F:352B ( talk) 23:23, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
In the specifications it lists among the crew "dorsal/waist gunner, ventral gunner". I am pretty sure that should be "radio operator/dorsal gunner, ventral/waist gunner". The dorsal gunner is seated on a raised seat in the roof of the fuselage surrounded by radio equipment. It is unlikely that he would be jumping up and down off his seat to operate the waist guns, especially when the dorsal gun is the most important and heavily used defensive gun. The ventral gunner, who is rarely needed in comparison and who only needs to stand up to be at the waist guns makes far more sense to fill this position. Although obviously either of them can do the job as the situation warrants.
I also noticed in the section on the H variant it says "the 20mm MG FF cannon was removed" although it doesn't say anything about one being installed prior to this. The only other mention of 20mm guns being fitted was a brief mention that sometimes 20mm cannon were fitted to increase defensive firepower on one of the earlier variants, which I think is also not entirely correct. I think the point of the 20mm was to suppress defensive fire in anti shipping missions. Not sure how a 20mm in the front of the ventral gondala is very useful as a defensive gun.
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This picture is a picture of Heinkel He 111. It was used during World war 2 by the Germans. The article also talks about many campaigns in which it was used. It stays. Is that understood? 103.100.11.3 ( talk) 04:01, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
" the passenger variants had their wings reduced from 25 to 2 m (82.0 to 6.6 ft)"
Is this correct? 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:A46F:EF6:553F:352B ( talk) 23:23, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
In the specifications it lists among the crew "dorsal/waist gunner, ventral gunner". I am pretty sure that should be "radio operator/dorsal gunner, ventral/waist gunner". The dorsal gunner is seated on a raised seat in the roof of the fuselage surrounded by radio equipment. It is unlikely that he would be jumping up and down off his seat to operate the waist guns, especially when the dorsal gun is the most important and heavily used defensive gun. The ventral gunner, who is rarely needed in comparison and who only needs to stand up to be at the waist guns makes far more sense to fill this position. Although obviously either of them can do the job as the situation warrants.
I also noticed in the section on the H variant it says "the 20mm MG FF cannon was removed" although it doesn't say anything about one being installed prior to this. The only other mention of 20mm guns being fitted was a brief mention that sometimes 20mm cannon were fitted to increase defensive firepower on one of the earlier variants, which I think is also not entirely correct. I think the point of the 20mm was to suppress defensive fire in anti shipping missions. Not sure how a 20mm in the front of the ventral gondala is very useful as a defensive gun.