Fav WW2 equipment.

[Ed Anger]

No love for the Beaufighter, Typhoon or Sunderland ?

Love the typhoon. Saw the beau fighter at the AF museum an it struck me as 'meh'.

I was too busy jacking off to the German shit there.

The Germans make videos for that now.  You don't have to to a museum to do that anymore.

I like the National Musuem of the Air Force. I get the giggles near BOCKS CAR.

[PDH]

No love for the Beaufighter, Typhoon or Sunderland ?

I always loved the look of the Beaufighter, at least the ones without the thimble nose.  Whispering Death.

[mongers]

I'm not sure what favourite means in this context, if it's the 'beauty' and technical achievement of the machine then I'll go for the likes of the Mosquito.
But my preferred way to look at it, is from the perspective of being impressed with the courage men had to have to fly or fight with some rather substandard equipment in the early years of the war and yet they still did it.

So my respect goes to those who fought in these:

Light bombers - Blenheim, an very large number of these were built and many had no option but to fly this inadequate bomber.

Heavy/Medium bombers - Whitley, Hampdens with along with the Wellington formed the bulk of bomber command for the first 2-2.5 years.

Ground attack/light bomber - Fairy Battle, around a thousand of these aircraft on strength at the start of the war.

Fighters - Gladiators, Defiants

Maritime patrol - Swordfish, Ansons

Plus the various not successful types which we bought/received before the US aircraft industry got into it's stride.

[Ed Anger]

For tanks, I'd like to add the Brit crusader tank.  And the frog Souma.

[mongers]

For tanks, I'd like to add the Brit crusader tank.

Al a my list ?

If so yeah, there were some pretty desperate British tanks, though I think one or two of the classic cruiser tanks were adequate. 

[Ed Anger]

I think the Crusaders are pretty.

[Neil]

Atago.  Good choice.

[Razgovory]

No love for the Beaufighter, Typhoon or Sunderland ?

Love the typhoon. Saw the beau fighter at the AF museum an it struck me as 'meh'.

I was too busy jacking off to the German shit there.

The Germans make videos for that now.  You don't have to to a museum to do that anymore.

I like the National Musuem of the Air Force. I get the giggles near BOCKS CAR.

I got to walk aboard the Enola Gay when it was at the Smithsonian.  Fucking Sweet.  Shortly afterword some jackasses vandalized it.

[Drakken]

Friggin' Yamato-class super-battleship trumps all, for me.

[Drakken]

Hood

[Neil]

Hood

What do you mean?  Hood is a legitimate choice.  It was such a beautiful ship.

[mongers]

Ships -

Patrol - the several thousand fishing vessels taken over to become escorts, rescue, anti-sub vessels etc - some heavy losses, nowadays overlooked.

Corvette/Escort - Flower class, a good choice by Neil.

Destroyer - I rather liked the Tribal class, in action all over the place and so high losses.

Cruiser - The Town class/sub classes

Battleship - If it's not Warspite, then HMS Rodney.

Aircraft Carrier - Illustrious

[PDH]

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the Rodnol and the Nelsol.

[Neil]

There's also a case to be made for Renown.

[11B4V]

Tanks: Panther (nothing comes close in my book)
Assault Gun: ISU-152 (big gun = good)
SP AT: Jagdtiger (not really a practical weapon system but cool as shit), honorable mention to the Hetzer
SP ARTY: Hummel
Armored Car: SdKfz 234
APC/Half Track: Sd.Kfz. 251 (you could mount about any weapon to it)

I think we should have at least 3 categories for tanks.

DS here's some good JTiger footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq32AjE9oMU