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    Its worth expanding on my earlier reply to Alex and he is not 100% wrong about the guns. The original plan was to have two Vickers, that is correct, but during development, as early as 1935, it was decided that this was far too light and the specification was redrawn to 8 Brownings. No Spits entered service with the Vickers guns.

    I mentioned the 'B' wings as well. A squadron of Mk1's were equipped with Hispano's in June 1940 but the cannon were so unreliable the squadron was re-equipped with the 8 Brownings fairly quickly after and certainly in time for the Battle of Britain. The problems with the Hispanos was eventually ironed out and they were successfully introduced in the mkV Spit.

    The reason for the Hispanos was because the 8 Brownings were not powerful enough against larger aircraft and an awful lot of rounds had to be expended to bring them down.

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