Sivun 58 vikassa ruudussa taivastallaan Hurricanejen neljää raskasta kk:ta. Hurricaneissa tapasi kyllä olla kahdeksan 7.7mm kevyttä kk:ta kuten lopun kone-esittelyssäkin kerrotaan.
Tähän minulla on selitys. Kun tutustuimme rajan taakse pudonneeseen Pekurin Brewsteriin, kävi ilmi, että se olivat puhkoneet raskaan konekiväärin luodit. Lukkarinen taisi jopa laittaa osumat reikien mukaisesti.
Löysin tällaisen selostuksen:
In spring-early summer 1942 considerable numbers of Hurricanes were delivered to the Karelian Front, where Hurricanes amounted to over half of the fighters on 1 July 1942 (133 Hurricanes of a total of 244 fighters).
Simultaneously (early spring 1942) a program for rearmament of Hurricanes with Soviet cannons and guns had been initiated, as calibre and fire power of the original British armament (up to twelve 7.62 mm Browning machine-guns) was considered too weak.
Two alternative replacements of four Browning machine-guns were proposed by the gun designer B.G.Shpital'nyj together with specialists of Zavod No.115 (co-located with Yakovlev's OKB) in Moscow:
1) four 20 mm ShVAK cannons, two 7.62 mm ShKAS machine-guns and six racks for RS-82 rockets, or
2) two 20 mm ShVAK cannons, two 12.7 mm UBK machine guns and six racks for RS-82 rockets.
After evaluation by NII VVS from 28 December 1941 to 3 January 1942 the first alternative was adopted.
Sarjakuvan episodi on kesäkuulta 1942.
