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WW2 RE-THINK: P-38X SUPER STRAFER: 30mm Autocannon Pointed DOWN = No Dangerous Diving
As much as I admire legendary aerospace engineer, Kelly Johnson, his twin-boom, P-38 with counter-rotating props demanding left and right-handed engines was un-necessarily complex and fragile and asymmetric thrust UNSAFE. THE SAME HANDED ENGINE should have been in the nose as a PULLER and another in back as a PUSHER for SAFE 1-engine-out centerline thrust like a Cessna O-2/SADF Model 337. Next, EJECTION SEAT(s) should have been fitted to shoot the aircrew above the rear prop and twin tail boom-connecting evelvator.
The rear seater would be a gunner with 20mm autocannon to flame Erich Hartman and Subaro Sakai if they get on the P-38X's 6 o'clock (tail).
It gets better!
The NOSE COULD STILL HAVE point/shoot firepower thru the props say 2x .50 cal HMGs and a 37mm autocannon in the hub--just like the fabulous P-39 AirCobra. All of this explodes a Jap Zero or a Nazi Me109/Fw190 in 1x burst.
The twin booms would have a nearly ENDLESS SUPPLY of 20mm/30mm cannon shells for their autocannon DEPRESSED at 10 TO GUN STRAFE ATTACK WITHOUT HAVING TO DIVE. Underbody armor to protect from enemy AAA fires.
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2021/05/tactismart-62-arm-yourself-transport.html
Also square-off the FUGLY, OLD-LOOKING round horizontal stabilizers:
https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2020/05/retrowarthink-009-p-39x-americas-most.html
Wings FOLD for ground-mobility to AVOID BEING D.O.T.G.ed.
Adding float/fuel tanks make the P-38X a Seaplane fighter that can self-deploy across oceans without constant refueling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBM8-P0Mjg
www.combatreform.org/seaplanefighters.htm
IF we had thousands of P-38Xs they could have been upgraded into Super Strafers that would have helped greatly later in the Korean and Vietnam wars--and current non-linear wars.
The P-38's handed piston engines killed it having a future in the USMIL.
Moreover, the P-38's engines could have been upgraded to 2x or 1x turbine engines--though the U.S. aerospace industry couldn't do contra-props like the Russians and U.K. can. Props could have been prop fans.
Or....the outer wings could have been lengthened like a sailplane and engines/props silenced like the Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/O55IrtghpRMX/
P-38X Super Strafer ModelVISION!:
https://www.facebook.com/combatreform.org/photos/5494426583914889
John 3:16
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL
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