Originally Posted by
Shessi
Hi MR,
No they we'ren't. The pack should be just be I/D'd as Mk VIF or Mk VIC and not F4.
The earlier Mk IF and IIF's, and the first Mk VIF Beaus were fitted with the early MkIV radar ie those with the nose and wing 'herring bone' style radar aerials. The later produced Mk VIF Beaus, as you say, were the one's fitted with the later MkVIII centimetric radar, fitted inside the nose radome. Even later, towards the end of the war the Mk X 'Strike' Beaus had the later MkX centimetric radar fitted in the same nose radome.
The Mk VIC was the Coastal Command version of the Mk VI.
I will get round to doing the revamp of the MkVI, as I've done with the MkI and II, and that will include the radome fitted ones as well, promise!
Cheers
Shessi
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